Norwich St Michael Coslany, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Norwich St Michael Coslany, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
St Michael Coslany is an Ancient Parish in the city and Diocese of Norwich. It is sometimes abbreviated to St Miles particularly in old documents.

The building is in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and houses the Norwich Discovery Centre, a science museum for schoolchildren and adult visitors.

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.

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

Images of the parish register for this parish are available on FamilySearch Historical Records but the registers were damaged by flooding and some parts of the registers are illegible.

Baptisms 1558-1903 are of particular interest for some family baptisms for Harper and Peckover.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Mallett, B. Which Was His Father. History and Family tree of Nicholas Mallett and Susanna Salmon,at St. Gregory, Norwich 1748, and his 2nd marriage to Sara Field at Coslany in 1777.The surnames included on the tree are Sayer, Mason, Evans, Waters-Leaving, dated from 1748 - 1963. The 2nd Family tree chart is of Nicholas Mallett marrying 1607 to Joan Wesbye 1602, at St Peter Parmentergate, his 2nd marriage to Elizabeth Hatley at All Saints, Norwich, 1627, with the following surnames, Offord, Smith, Lusher, Bullock, Giles, Glover and Tills, dated from 1607-1717. Article in The Norfolk Ancestor, old series, vol. 4, pt. 2, page 45-46, Family History Library Ref. 942.61 B2j vol.4, pt 2.

Poor Law Union
Norwich 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church

Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp