Norfolk: Southburgh

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Southburgh is about 6 miles S.S.E. of East Dereham.
The name may also be found as South Burgh and Southbergh.
It is also known as Barrow.

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: St Andrew's Church, Southburgh: Memorial Inscriptions.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 2002?]

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Hingham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.

Marriages

These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Parish Register Extracts

These extracts have been found by the Norfolk transcribers for FreeREG, in the Southburgh register of baptisms 1700-1812, marriages 1700-1756, and burials 1700-1812.

1732	June 27. 1732 The Church of Southburgh was broke into & robbed of the Communion Plate.
N. Saltier Rector ibid:
1762	For mocking of the Church due £0: 6s: 8d which was paid by Thos. Howlett of Watton upon refusal of marriage of Wm. Potter's daughter of this Parish. Feb 7th 1762
Witness P. Gurdon Rector.

The names of the rectors were Nathanial Saltier and Parker Gurdon.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Southburgh was in Mitford and Launditch Registration District.

Description and Travel

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Directories

Historical Geography

Southburgh is in Mitford hundred.

Land and Property

Inclosure: See Reymerston

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Southburgh became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was at Gressenhall.
Overseers' Rates
Principal property occupiers and the amounts paid.
1810.

Voting Registers

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