Norfolk: Horsey

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Horsey is about 11 miles N.N.W. of Great Yarmouth.
It is also known as Horsey next the Sea.

Cemeteries

Church of All Saints: Transcriptions of gravestones in the churchyard.
The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Horsey.
See Brumstead

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of All Saints: Description and history.
Church of All Saints: Description and pictures.
Church of All Saints: Services, etc.
Church of All Saints: Pictures of the church.
Tricker, Roy: A Guide to All Saints Parish Church, Horsey-next-the-Sea.
[Horsey, The Church, 1988]
Horsey Methodist Church: Services, minister, location, picture, etc.
Horsey Methodist Church: Description and history.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1813-1880
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Horsey was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Horsey was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Description and Travel

Horsey: Description, history, pictures, parish council, floods, buildings, farms, memories, etc.
There is a lot of information here. Several links from this Genuki Norfolk page are direct links into relevant pages on the Horsey web site.
Horsey in 1844: From An essay on the encroachments of the German Ocean along the Norfolk coast by William Hewitt.
Horsey: Description and pictures.
Randell, Roy: The Horsey Flood, 12 February 1938.
[1938]
Horsey Drainage Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Horsey Drainage Mill: Description and history.

Directories

Historical Geography

Horsey is in Happing hundred.

History

A Chronology of Medieval Horsey: History.
Stone, Edward Darley: Notes on the Parish of Horsey.
[1924]

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Horsey Inclosure Act, 1812.
An act for enclosing and draining lands in the parish of Horsey, in the County of Norfolk.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Tunstead and Happing Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

In 1785 Horsey became part of the Tunstead and Happing Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.
In 1869 the incorporation became the Smallburgh Union.

Population

These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and single occupiers.

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1801	10	11	58
1811	12	14	64
1821	14	16	95
1831	15	21	111
1841	24	--	162
1851	21	--	161

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	24	--	206
1871	42	48	188
1881	42	43	199
1891	37	37	155
1901	34	34	158
1911	--	34	157

There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.

1821 Census: "The Parish of Horsey principally consists of low marshes, bogs, and water, is nearly insulated by the sea to the east; the Hundred stream, or river which divides Happing from East Flegg to the south, Eelfleet Dike and Horsey Mere to the west and north. The said Parish of Horsey was inclosed about seven or eight years ago by Act of Parliament, which caused an increase of Population, by several families settling therein about that period, who are now in a distressed state from the diminished price and scarcity of labour. (Signed) William Dawson, Overseer."
1831 Census: "The Parish of Horsey principally consists of Salt marshes, bogs and water, and is nearly insulated by the Sea to the East; by the Hundred-Stream (or River which divides Happing Hundred and East-Flegg Hundred) to the South; by Eelfleet Dike; and by Horsey-Mere to the West and North. The said Parish of Horsey was inclosed about 17 or 18 years ago."
1861 Census: "TUNSTEAD. The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the Tunstead District, which forms the "Tunstead and Happing Incorporation" for the support of the poor, is attributed to emigration and the migration of young persons to other parts."

Voting Registers

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