Norfolk: Ormesby St Margaret

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Ormesby St Margaret is about 6 miles north north west 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

The parish is in the deanery of Flegg, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
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.

Description and Travel

Pictures of old Ormesby: From the Frith Collection.
Pictures of old Scratby: From the Frith Collection.
Ormesby Post Mill: Description and picture.
Ormesby Tower Mill: Description and picture.

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 Pamphlets and Articles on Hampton: (New Hampshire)

Gazetteers and Directories

Ormesby St Margaret is in East Flegg hundred.

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

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Ormesby St Margaret became part of the East and West Flegg Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Rollesby.

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