Cawston, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Cawston, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CAWSTON (St. Agnes), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 3¼ miles (E. by N.) from Reepham, and on the road from Norwich to Holt. The Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, have places of worship.

Cawston St Agnes is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich.

At the centre of the village lies the mediaeval perpendicular parish church of St Agnes, which is a Grade I listed building. Erected at the end of the 14th century a Perpendicular decorated Church, that dwarfs the small village of Cawston. The tower stands at 120 feet. A deeply moulded doorway with a wodehouse or wild man and a dragon. The crest of De La Pole family was the head of a wild man. The De Pole's were the Earls of Suffolk who largely rebuilt this magnificent church and its mighty tower in the early 15th century.

For local government purposes the village and civil parish are in the Broadland district.

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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.


 * Aylsham 1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Tinstaafl Baptism Project 1813 to 1880

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Parish chest materials of Cawston, 1596-1618 Microreproduction of original records at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich. Norfolk Record Office nos.: MC 254/2/1-11.

List of names of the poor of the parish, 1596; Inventory of church goods, 1603; Overseers' accounts, 1606, 1612; Churchwardens' accounts, 1615-1616; Overseers' accounts, 1610-1617; Poor rates, 1618; Property valuations, no date; Orders concerning the poor, no date. Vault BRITISH Film 2186803 Item 12

Parish chest material, 1618-1831 Microfilm copy of original in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Churchwardens accounts, 1679-1681 Bond, 1618 Apprenticeship indentures, 1618, 1630-1634, 1700-1718, 1794, 1818 Inventories, 1699, 1826 Settlement certificates, 1702-1705, 1731-1743, 1752-1778, 1787 Removal orders, 1702, 1778, 1795 Settlement examinations, 1768, 1797, 1799, 1816, 1826-1830 Miscellaneous papers, 1645, 1789, 1792, 1828-1831 FHL BRITISH Film 1951457 Items 3-10

See also

England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Norfolk: Cawston on GenUKI
 * Church History
 * Video of restored organ in the church.
 * Cawston on Norfolk Churches project