Southtown, Suffolk Genealogy

England   Suffolk     Suffolk Parishes   Southtown

Parish History
SOUTHTOWN, anciently a parish, but now commonly considered a hamlet in the parish of Gorleston, locally in the hundred of Mutfrod and Lothingland, E. division of Suffolk.

Southtown St Mary is an ecclesiastical parish within the Diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk. Southtown St Mary became a chapelry to Gorleston in 1511. Gorleston was united with the hamlet of Southtown, whose parish church of St Mary was demolished in 1548, the stone being used to build a pier.

A subsequent chapel of ease to Gorleston which later became a parish.

Poor Law Unions

 * For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Yarmouth/Yarmouth.shtml

Registration Districts

 * Mutford

Maps and Gazetteers

 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain
 * Suffolk Gazetteers