Norfolk: Ormesby St Margaret

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Ormesby St Margaret is about 6 miles N.N.W. of Great Yarmouth.
It is also called Great Ormesby, and includes the hamlet of Scratby.
See also Ormesby St Michael.

Cemeteries

Churchyard of the Church of St Margaret: Transcriptions of gravestones.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Flegg, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church Records

Ormesby St Margaret Marriages 1601-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 7.
Parish Register Transcriptions: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1923 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Ormesby St Margaret was in Flegg Registration District. Between 1837 and 1850, the district was called East and West Flegg.

Description and Travel

Ormesby Post Mill: Description and picture.
Ormesby Tower Mill: Description and picture.

Directories

1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Emigration and Immigration

MacAllan, Barbara: Custom, Contrast or Compromise: the transfer of culture from old to New England in the seventeenth century: Ormesby, Norfolk to Hampton, New Hampshire.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia, Ph.D. Thesis, 2 vols, 1999]
Hampton History, Genealogy and Biography: New Hampshire

Historical Geography

Ormesby St Margaret is in East Flegg Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for East Flegg and West Flegg Hundreds
Description of East Flegg and West Flegg Hundreds: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Great Ormesby, Little Ormesby and Scratby Inclosure Act, 1842.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing lands in the parishes of Ormesby Saint Margaret, Ormesby Saint Michael, Ormesby Saint Peter, and Ormesby Saint Andrew, and Scratby otherwise Scroteby, in the county of Norfolk: 18th June 1842.
[London, George Edward Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1842]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1775 Ormesby St Margaret became part of the East and West Flegg Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Rollesby.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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