Norfolk: Thuxton

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Thuxton is about 7 miles N.W. of Wymondham.
See also Threxton and Thurton.

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: Memorial Inscriptions of the Church and Churchyard of St Paul, Thuxton, Norfolk.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 1999]

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Paul: Description and pictures.
Church of St Paul: Services, minister, pictures, etc.

Church Records

Campling, Arthur: Index of Baptisms, Thuxton, 1538-1761.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Marriages, Thuxton, 1542-1747.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Burials, Thuxton, 1539-1745.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
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), Thuxton was in Mitford and Launditch Registration District.

Description and Travel

Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton Parish Council: Councillors, etc.

Directories

Historical Geography

Thuxton is in Mitford hundred.

History

Butler, Lawrence; and Wade-Martins, Peter: The deserted medieval village of Thuxton, Norfolk.
[Gressenhall, Norfolk Archaeological Unit, East Anglian Archaeology, report no.46, 1989]

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of claims: Thuxton (18).
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1810.
[1810]
Great Britain: Statute: Thuxton Inclosure Act, 1810.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Thuxton, in the county of Norfolk.
[An independently printed edition of the act, 1810]

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.

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Thuxton became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was at Gressenhall.

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	8	11	64
1811	8	11	71
1821	9	15	78
1831	9	14	83
1841	20	--	103
1851	24	--	133

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	28	--	132
1871	27	27	110
1881	26	26	101
1891	23	23	88
1901	20	20	67
1911	--	21	78

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.

1861 Census: MITFORD. "The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the Mitford District is attributed to the migration of labourers to towns, and to Yorkshire and Northumberland, &c."

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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