Caister, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
CAISTOR on Sea Holy Trinity is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.

A fourteenth century church with Victorian renovation.

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
 * Caister next Yarmouth 1925-1926
 * East Caister, West Caister to 1938
 * Great Yarmouth 1939-1974

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

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1705-1706 Image 402
 * 1715 Image 1218
 * 1722-1723 Image 67
 * 1722-1723 Image 68

The parish is sometimes referred to as Caister-next-Yarmouth. This designation is used by Phillimore and Holley Phillimore 1899-1936

Norfolk Record Office reference PD450/1-11, 20-21

This parish's registers do not appear in FamilySearch Historical Record Collections because no microfilm of the parish is held.

A transcript collection Parish register transcripts, 1563-1837 Caister-next-Yarmouth with index Baptisms, burials, 1563-1812; marriages, 1563-1837 is available in images as a result of conversion from microfilm

The transcript is handwritten

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Nonconformist Churches
Church records for the Great Yarmouth circuit, 1842-1893 Primitive Methodist

Poor Law Unions
East and West Flegg Workhouse

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

Websites

 * Caister-on-Sea on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * Church
 * Caister on Norfolk Churches
 * historic photographs (commercial site)