Aslacton, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

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

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

Church Records
The parish registers do not appear on FamilySearch Records (Historical Records) as no microfilm for the parish is held. 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 along with these other collections:


 * England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts
 * England Norfolk Church of England Parish Registers and Bishops’ Transcripts
 * England Norfolk Church of England Parish Registers and Bishops’ Transcripts
 * England Norfolk Church of England Bishops’ Transcripts

Courtesy of Norfolk Transcription Archives


 * Baptisms (Bishop Transcripts) 1725-1812
 * Marriages (Bishop Transcripts) 1725-1811
 * Burials (Bishop Transcripts) 1725-1811)

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

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

Registration Districts

 * Depwade

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes beginning with A

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851