Norfolk: Diss
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Diss is about 16 miles E. of Thetford.
Archives and Libraries
- Diss Museum
- Description and pictures.
Cemeteries
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Abbott, Basil
- The abiding glory: the parish church of St Mary the Virgin,
Diss.
[Norwich, 1986]
- Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
- Dunford, Michael G.
- Diss United Reformed Church 1835-1985.
[Diss, Diss United Reformed Church, c1985]
Church Records
- Bodle, A.N. and Palgrave-Moore, Patrick
- Norfolk nonconformist registers, no.5: Diss particular
baptist chapel: births 1806-1836. transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, 1987]
- Crosby, J.; Farrow, C.W. and Palgrave-Moore, Patrick
- The Parish registers of Diss 1551-1837; transcribed, edited
and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society v.19, 1987]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Diss was in
Depwade Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Cross, Dennis
- Diss and district, a portrait in old picture postcards, 1901-1939.
[ISBN 1870708792, Market Drayton, S.B. Publications, 1991]
- Piper, Cyril
- Diss: the pictorial past 1860-1905 (a booklet of nearly 100
old photographs).
[ISBN 0950359017, Diss Publishing Company, 1982]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Diss is in Diss Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Diss Hundred
- Description of Diss Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
History
- Evans, Nesta (editor)
- Aspects of Diss history.
[Diss, Diss Museum, 1994]
- Evans, Nesta (ed)
- A Collection of Diss History.
(Results of research undertaken by a University of East
Anglia Extra-mural Studies course).
[Part 1: ISBN 0952189267, Diss, 1998]
[Part 2: ISBN 0952189224, Diss, 1998]
- Evans, Nesta (editor)
- Early Victorian Diss - The Town Centre.
(Results of research undertaken by a University of East
Anglia Extra-mural Studies course).
[Norwich, University of East Anglia, 1992]
- Evans, Nesta (editor)
- A Nineteenth-century Diss Miscellany.
[ISBN 0952189216, Diss, Diss Museum Trustees, 1995]
- Green, Mike
- Diss memories (1901-1939).
[ISBN 1856206769, Wymondham, Stylus Press, 1996?]
- Sussex, Vivien J.
- Diss, a postal history.
[Bishops Stortford, East Anglia Postal History Study Circle, 1974]
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Diss Inclosure Act, 1814.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Diss, in the
county of Norfolk.
[1814]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Names, Personal
- Farmery
- See Norfolk People and Families
- Hore
- See Norfolk People and Families
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Schools
- Diss School
- Prize distichs on a dead nightingale, in Latin and English,
and other pieces written by the pupils of Diss School.
[Diss, printed by E.E. Abbott, 1820]
Voting Registers
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