Fritton St Catherine, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
FRITTON (St. Catherine), a parish, in the union and hundred of Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (E. by N.) from Long Stratton.

Fritton St Catherine is an Ancient Parish in the Depwade deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

Fritton is now part of Morningthorpe civil parish and lies close to Morningthorpe, Norfolk parish.

It should not be confused with the other Fritton parish in the Diocese Fritton, Suffolk

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.


 * Depwade 1837-1935
 * Part of Morningthorpe in Depwade 1935-1974
 * The Register Office, Council Offices, Market Hill, Diss, IP22 3JX. Tel: 01379 643915. E-mail: [mailto:registration.diss@norfolk.gov.uk registration.diss@norfolk.gov.uk]

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 71/ 1-7

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=227&amp;district_id=4&amp;document_type=150 Baptism transcripts

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=227&amp;district_id=4&amp;document_type=250 Marriage transcripts

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=227&amp;district_id=4&amp;document_type=300 Burials transcripts from parish registers Norfolk Transcription Archive

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=227&amp;district_id=4&amp;document_type=160 Bishop's Transcripts Norfolk Transcription archive

Known Issues

The images displayed under the way point Fritton include a marriage book 1838-1901 53 images which are for Fritton, Suffolk and have been loaded with other record images for this parish.

Census Records
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Depwade Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web Sites

 * Fritton on GenUKI
 * Parish Info AChurchNearYou
 * British History online
 * http://www.paintedchurch.org/frittong.htm st George and the Dragon wall painting]
 * Norfolk Churches website