Great Moulton, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk

Parish History
Great Moulton St Michael or Moulton St Michael is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

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.

Registration District:


 * Depwade

Church records
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This parish does not appear on Record Search as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the Family History Library Catalogue indicates that the following Archdeacon's transcripts are on film but these have not yet been converted to digital images for publication

Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812 Contains records for St. Michaels Church and All Saints Church. Great Moulton was also know as Moulton-St. Michael. All Saints Church may have served both Great Moulton and Little Moulton. Little Moulton was a hamlet in the parish of Great Moulton, and may have been annexed to Great Moulton.

Census records
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Non-Conformist Chapel
Great Moulton Congregational. The "tin church" is now preserved at the East Anglian Museum of Rural Life in Stowmarket Suffolk.

The building was manufactured by Boulton and Paul of Norwich in the 1890's and served for a century as a meeting place until the Congregational Church built new premises.

Norwich Surrey Chapel Undenominational Sub-Chapels Norfolk Record Office Reference FC 76/87 Great Moulton Chapel, Church Meeting minutes Date 1898-1940 Description Exterior photograph, balance sheets, and papers re sale of chapel, 1970-1971, inserted. This Undenominational Congregation was formed as a result of the secession from the Church of England in 1845 of Robert Govett (1813-1901), previously curate of St Stephen's parish, Norwich. The immediate cause was Govett's views on infant baptism. Surrey Chapel was built in 1854 to house the congregation. It was financed and managed principally by Govett himself and in consequence it is not until after his death in 1901 that a Committee was formed and the series of Church Meeting and other minutes begins, though Govett's printed pastoral letters commence as early as 1847 (nos. 59-60 in list). Small mission churches were established at Stoke Holy Cross, Bramerton, Great Moulton, Swardeston, Saxlingham Nethergate, Marlingford and elsewhere

Poor Law Unions
Depwade     http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Depwade/Depwade.shtml

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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Web sites
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