Ashby with Oby and Thurne, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk  Ashby with Oby and Thurne

Parish History
Ashby with Oby and Thurne is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Norfolk, created in 1604 from Ashby with Oby Ancient Parish and Thurne Ancient Parish.

Thurne St Edmund is the parish church a Norman church with thatched roof.

Thurne is the Saxon word for a thorn bush.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.


 * Flegg 1837-1924
 * Yarmouth and Flegg 1925-1938
 * Acle 1939-1974
 * Norwich Outer
 * Norwich

Church records
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Norfolk Record Office reference for combined parish registers of Ashby, Oby and Thurne PD308/1-3, 5-7

This parish does not appear in Record Search since no microfilm is held for the parish of St Edmund Thurne

Census records
Contributor: Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Norfolk Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Flegg/Flegg.shtml

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/thurne-st-edmund/ for information about he parish

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-227733-church-of-st-edmund-thurne British listed buildings

http://www.pocketnorfolkbroads.co.uk/pnbfiles/thurne.html for information about the church and village

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78778 includes list of rectors of Thurne

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurne/thurne.htm Norfolk Churches with photos of the church