Little Ouse, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
Little Ouse is "6 miles north--north-east from Littleport station and 10 1/2 south-east from Downham. Formed in 1866 from Feltwell Anchor, Feltwell Fen Farms and Redmere, and parts of Feltwell and Hilgay in Norfolk, and part of Littleport in Cambridgeshire. "Little Ouse is a chapelry in Hilgay parish, Norfolk." In 1901 the Eccleslastical Parish of Little Ouse, St. John, was partly in the Ancient County of Cambridge and had 167 inhabited houses and a population of 892. "There are two Primitive Methodist chapels." St. John Parish Church, Little Ouse closed 21 May 1979.

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
Little Ouse Parish Registersavailable for purchase on Parish Chest.

St John's Parish Church, Little Ouse Parish Records held by The Littleport Society:

Baptisms 2 Dec 1860 - 2 April 1978

Banns 20 Sept 1942 - 21 Sept 1997

Marriages 30 Oct 1869 - 15 June 1974

Burials 21 May 1869 - 15 June 1974

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk

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

Web sites

 * Norfolk: Little Ouse on GenUKI
 * The Littleport Society