Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ORMSBY (St. Margaret), a parish, in the East and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of East Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Yarmouth. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of St. Michael and that of Scratby. The Baptists and Wesleyans have places of worship.

Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the Diocese of Norwich. The Ecclesiastical parish was created about 1600 from the Ancient parishes of Ormesby St Andrew Ancient Parish and Ormesby St Peter Ancient Parish. The parish includes Scratby and California.

California owes its name to the discovery of some 16th-century gold coins on the beach in 1848, at a time when the California gold rush had captured the attention of the world.

Thomas Webster (1631-1715), who was born in Ormesby St. Margaret and eventually settled in New Hampshire, was the great-great-grandfather of the prominent 19th Century American politician Daniel Webster.

Scratby Hall, the country house of John Ramey, was occupied by his daughter, the Dowager Countess of Home, until her death in 1814. The house was originally built by John Fisher, Esq. John Ramey, Esq., an attorney, then barrister, retired to Scratby Hall, where he died in 1796. From 1949 to the mid 1980's, the home and estate served as Duncan Hall School.

A Norman church stood on the site but extensive restoration in the 1860's has produced the present church.

Ormesby St Margaret should not be mistaken for the village of Ormesby St Michael, Norfolk which neighbours it to the west.

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Civil Registration
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 * Norfolk Record Office

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1924 Flegg
 * 1925-1938 Yarmouth and Flegg
 * 1938-1974 Acle
 * Norwich Outer
 * Norwich

Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Tinstaafl Baptism Project 1813 to 1880

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

 * Flegg Workhouse
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions
 * Peter Higginbotham's website: History of Workhouses

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Ormesby St Margaret on GenUKI
 * Ormesby St Margaret on A Church Near You
 * Ormesby St Margaret on Norfolk Churches
 * Ormesby St Margaret Towermill on Norfolk Mills