Moulton, Suffolk Genealogy

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Moulton Guide to Moulton, Suffolk family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MOULTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Risbridge, W. division of Suffolk, 3½ miles (E. by N.) from Newmarket.

Refer to the works listed in Suffolk Gazetteers or England Gazetteers for source material.

Resources
If you live in &lt;a _fcknotitle="true" href="Suffolk"&gt;Suffolk&lt;/a&gt; you will have access to a variety of resources at &lt;a href="Suffolk Archives and Libraries"&gt;local archives and libraries&lt;/a&gt;. For those who live further afield, one can access microfilm and online records at &lt;a href="Introduction to LDS Family History Centers"&gt;LDS Family History Centres&lt;/a&gt;. Refer to &lt;img _fck_mw_template="true" _fckrealelement="20" _fckfakelement="true" src="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" class="FCK__MWTemplate"&gt; and &lt;img _fck_mw_template="true" _fckrealelement="18" _fckfakelement="true" src="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" class="FCK__MWTemplate"&gt; in the FamilySearch Catalogue for available records.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The &lt;a href="England Civil Registration"&gt;civil registration&lt;/a&gt; article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is &lt;a href="http://freebmd.org.uk/"&gt;FreeBMD&lt;/a&gt;.

Church records
&lt;img _fck_mw_template="true" _fckrealelement="16" _fckfakelement="true" src="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" class="FCK__MWTemplate"&gt; parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Parish Registers began in the 1500's. They can be viewed at the &lt;a href="Suffolk Archives and Libraries#Suffolk_Record_Office"&gt;Suffolk Record Office&lt;/a&gt;. There are Bishop Transcripts and Parish Registers that have been filmed for most parishes in the County. See the &lt;a _fcknotitle="true" href="Suffolk Church Records"&gt;Suffolk Church Records&lt;/a&gt; article for further details. &lt;img _fck_mw_template="true" _fckrealelement="8" _fckfakelement="true" src="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" class="FCK__MWTemplate"&gt;

Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to &lt;a href="Suffolk Probate Records"&gt;Suffolk Probate Records&lt;/a&gt; to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation records

 * 1674 - Moulton 1674 Hearth Tax at &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xqtCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA214"&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt; - free.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * &lt;a href="http://maps.familysearch.org/"&gt;England Jurisdictions 1851&lt;/a&gt;
 * &lt;a href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp"&gt;Vision of Britain&lt;/a&gt;

Websites
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