Norfolk: Rollesby
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Rollesby is about 7 miles N.W. of Gt Yarmouth.
Cemeteries
- Church of St George
- Transcriptions of gravestones in the churchyard.
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Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
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 George.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St George
- Description and pictures.
- Church of St George
- Services, etc.
- Bates, A.
- St George's Church, Rollesby: A History and Guide.
[1975]
- Sangster, Andrew
- Diary of a Parish Priest: a History of England.
Letters from the incumbents of Rollesby from 1160 to 2001,
with their views on both national and local political,
social and ecclesiastical matters.
[ISBN 1842980483, John Hunt, 2002]
Church Records
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms.
- Baptisms, marriages and burials
- Search the Flegg Island web pages.
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1923 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Rollesby was in
Flegg Registration District.
Between 1837 and 1850, the district was called East and West Flegg.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Sangster, Andrew
- Rollesby Photograph Album, 1881-2001: a hundred photographs
of Rollesby past and present.
[Rollesby, 2001]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Rollesby is in West 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
- Rollesby Inclosure Act, 1813.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Rollesby, in the
county of Norfolk: 1st April 1813.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1813]
[London, J. Dorington, 1813]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour
- World Wars 1 and 2.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Names, Personal
- Palgrave
- See Norfolk People and Families
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
After 1775 Rollesby became part of the East and West Flegg
Incorporation, and the workhouse was in this parish.
- East and West Flegg Incorporation
- Parishes in the incorporation, etc.
- East and West Flegg Incorporation and Workhouse
- Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- East and West Flegg Incorporation and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
- Batley, Peter
- The effect of the old and new poor laws on the East and West
Flegg Poor Law Union in Norfolk, from 1750 to 1850.
[Great Yarmouth, 2002]
- Page, R.A.
- The East and West Flegg House of Industry, 1774-1803: a
survey of the administration of the old poor law in a rural
hundred of Norfolk.
[ISBN 0900592583, University of Cambridge Thesis,
Board of Extra-Mural Studies, 1972]
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 | 46 | 60 | 420 |
1811 | 71 | 71 | 385 |
1821 | 68 | 84 | 619 |
1831 | 92 | 92 | 717 |
1841 | 103 | -- | 589 |
1851 | 109 | -- | 554 |
|
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
1861 | 102 | -- | 531 |
1871 | 111 | 113 | 545 |
1881 | 110 | 110 | 557 |
1891 | 112 | 114 | 570 |
1901 | 115 | 115 | 510 |
1911 | -- | 119 | 502 |
|
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 Return of Rollesby includes 231 paupers, resident in the House
of Industry (or Workhouse) of the Hundreds of East and West Flegg."
- 1831 Census
- "The Return of Rollesby Parish includes 297 Paupers, resident in the
House of Industry (or Workhouse) of the Hundreds of East and West Flegg."
- 1851 Census
- "The Return for Rollesby Parish includes 231 persons in 1821, 297 in
1831, 73 in 1841, and 106 in 1851, in the East and West Flegg Union
Workhouse, which, before the New Poor Law, was the House of Industry
for the Hundreds of East and West Flegg."
- 1901 Census
- "Including Low Street and Narrowgate Corner."
- 1911 Census
- Out of the population of 502, 40 were in a large establishment
or institution. This was probably the workhouse.
Schools
- Woodrow, Barbara
- Rollesby School Then and Now.
[2007]
Voting Registers
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