Nacton, Suffolk Genealogy

Guide to Nacton, Suffolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
NACTON (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Woodbridge, hundred of Colneis, E. division of Suffolk, 4 miles (S.E.) from Ipswich.

Refer to the works listed in Suffolk Gazetteers or England Gazetteers for source material.

Extra-Parochial
...Alnesbourn Priory and Purdies Farm form an extra-parochial district on the north side of Nacton, about 3 miles S.E. of Ipswich, and contain about 777A. of land, (belonging to Sir Philip Broke,) eight houses, and 39 inhabitants. This district is said to have had three churches, viz., Hallowtree, St. Petronille, and Bixley, but their sites are unknown. Alnesbourn Priory was a small house of Augustine monks, which was added as a cell to Woodbridge in 1452.....William White, 1844, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Suffolk, page 125-126


 * Alnesbourn Priory
 * Purdis Farm

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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.

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
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 - Suffolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Suffolk ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

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

Taxation records

 * 1674 - Nacton 1674 Hearth Tax at Google Books - free.

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

Websites

 * Local archives and libraries
 * Family History Centres