Aslacton, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

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

Parish History
Aslacton is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk and has one of the 124 surviving round tower churches in Norfolk.Aslacton Wikipedia Aslacton St Michael is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

It is a mediaeval Pilgrim church with a Saxon tower and there are traces of Saxon masonry in the Norman nave. The Parish church of St Michael has been designated as a grade I listed building British Listed building Images of the church and its history are found at Simon Knott's Norfolk Churches website. A manorial history is found in Francis Blomefield'Hundred of Depwade: Aslacton', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 5 (1806), pp. 177-181. at British History Online

ASLACTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 3½ miles (W. by S.) from Long Stratton.

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

The parish registers do not appear on FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held at the Family History Library. The deposited records are at the Norfolk Record Office reference PD490/1-5 Archdeacon's transcripts are on film # 1526806 Item # 13 and online at FamilySearch Historical Records Collection.

Census Records

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 * 1891 Surname Index courtesy of Pat Greetham and Norfolk Transcription Archives
 * 1891 Surname Index courtesy of Pat Greetham and Norfolk Transcription Archives

Poor Law Unions
Depwade Poor Law Union


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

Registration Districts

 * Depwade

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes beginning with A

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Aslacton on GenUKI