Gayton, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Gayton, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Freebridge-Lynn
 * Poor Law Union = Freebridge Lynn
 * Registration District = Freebridge Lynn
 * PRbegin = 1702
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Lynn
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
GAYTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 7 miles (E.) from Lynn.

Gayton St Nicholas is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

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.


 * Freebridge Lynn 1837-1938
 * King's Lynn 1939-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Non-Conformist churches
Non-Church of England denominations identified in Gayton include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Gayton Methodist chapel was founded in 1812.

Norfolk Record Office reference SO 197/8/1-29, 900X6 Norfolk Non Conformist Chapel survey

Poor Law Unions
Freebridge Lynn     http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?FreebridgeLynn/FreebridgeLynn.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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Gayton on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * Information Article about the Church
 * Church of St Nicholas Gayton on listed buildings
 * Gayton on Norfolk Churches (church images)