Cawston, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk

Parish History
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.

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
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 for this parish are available on Record Search. The old registers for the period 1538-1672 were rebound by donations from Pembroke College Cambridge and another benefactor prior to microfilming. They remain damaged and in parts illegible.

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Aylsham     http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Aylsham/Aylsham.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.cawstonparish.info/church.htm parish website history of the church

http://www.st-agnes.org.uk/news/cawston-organ-restoration-video/ of the restored church organ

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cawston/cawston.htm Norfolk Churches project