Norwich St Margaret, Norfolk Genealogy

History
Norwich St Margaret de Westwick is one of four mediaeval churches in close proximity on St Benedict Street. The church was closed in 1975, and the furnishings dispersed to other churches. Its current use is as an exhibition space, which enable the proportions to be appreciated.

Church Records
Images of the combined parishes of St Margaret with St Swithins are available on Family Search Historical Records (formerly Record Search)

Norfolk Record Office has separate deposited register series for each parish.

Census Records
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Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions

 * Norwich Poor Law Union
 * See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Norwich

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851