Southtown, Suffolk Genealogy

Parish History
SOUTHTOWN, anciently a parish, but now commonly considered a hamlet in the parish of Gorleston, locally in the hundred of Mutfrod and Lothingland, E. division of Suffolk. This place was formerly called Little Yarmouth, and is a suburb to Great Yarmouth.

Southtown St Mary is an ecclesiastical parish within the Diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk. Southtown St Mary became a chapelry to Gorleston in 1511. Gorleston was united with the hamlet of Southtown, whose parish church of St Mary was demolished in 1548, the stone being used to build a pier.

A subsequent chapel of ease to Gorleston which later became a parish.

Poor Law Unions

 * For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Yarmouth/Yarmouth.shtml

Registration Districts

 * Mutford

Maps and Gazetteers

 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain
 * Suffolk Gazetteers