Norfolk: Rollesby

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Rollesby is about 7 miles N.W. of Gt Yarmouth.

Cemeteries

Church of St George: Transcriptions of gravestones in the churchyard.

Census

Flegg Incorporation Workhouse was in this parish.
1881: Flegg Incorporation Workhouse
1891: Rollesby, and Flegg Incorporation Workhouse: Surname List
1901

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Flegg, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St George.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St George: Description, history 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.
This is a link to an archived copy.
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 1930 (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.

Description and Travel

Sangster, Andrew: Rollesby Photograph Album, 1881-2001: a hundred photographs of Rollesby past and present.
[Rollesby, 2001]

Gazetteers and Directories

Rollesby is in West Flegg hundred.

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]

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Names, Personal

Palgrave: See Norfolk People and Families

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1775 Rollesby became part of the Flegg Incorporation, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Flegg Incorporation House of Industry: Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
Flegg Incorporation Parishes: List of parishes in the incorporation.
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]
Rollesby Village School: Picture of the school.

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