Ormesby St Michael, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
ORMSBY (St. Michael), a parish, in the East and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of East Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Yarmouth.

Ormesby St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich. It is sometimes referred to as Little Ormesby.

The church is one of the three Ormesby churches and the larger church and ecclesiastical parish of Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk grew from this ancient parish and that of now lost round towered church of Ormesby St Peter.

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 1938-1974
 * Norwich Outer
 * Norwich

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Images of the parish register are available on FamilySearch

Census records
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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

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
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/ormesby-st-michael/ for information about the parish

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbypeter/ormesbypeter.htm for the lost Ormesby church and for St Michael http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbymichael/ormesbymichael.htm from the Norfolk Churches website

http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/ormesby-st-michael-postmill.html for local postmill history

http://www.norfolkstainedglass.co.uk/Ormesby_St_Michael/home.shtm for stained glass from the church