Norfolk: Trowse Newton

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Trowse Newton is about 1 mile S.E. of Norwich.
It is also known as Trowse and Trowse-with-Newton.
Trowse Millgate, Carrow and Bracondale are in this parish, but are north of the river Yare and are hamlets of Norwich.

Cemeteries

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Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Description, history, services, pictures, etc.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts

Baptisms 1813-1880

Marriages

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

Parish Register Extracts

These extracts have been found by the Norfolk transcribers for FreeREG, in the Trowse Newton register of baptisms and burials 1779-1812.

Population of Trowse Milgate Carrow and Bracondale as taken May 1811.
Inhabited Houses	Families	Males	Females	Total Souls
73	78	150	195	345

[The figures for Trowse Newton, which was enumerated separately, in 1811 were
Inhabited Houses 118, Families 136, Males 233, Females 255, Total of Persons 488
though these are from the census abstracts, not the parish register].

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Flatt, Jane: Trowse: This is your village: A presentation of the village appraisal with historical notes.
[2001]
Trowse Village Pages: Description, history, church, news, pictures, etc. This is a link to an archived copy.
Trowse Post Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Trowse Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Trowse Newton is in Henstead Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Henstead Hundred
Description of Henstead Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Land and Property

Kelly, Geoffrey Ian: Staithe Cottage, Trowse Newton: a history.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1985]
Money, W.A.: Crown Point Estate: its owners for upwards of 150 years. The Moneys' claim and history of the family. How the estate came into Sir R.J.H. Harvey's Possession.
[Norwich, P. Soman, 1870s]
Thompson, Owen: Newton Hall, Trowse Newton: A building with changing meaning in a changing landscape.
[University of East Anglia undergraduate project, 1992]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Trowse Newton became part of the Henstead Union, and the workhouse was at Swainsthorpe.

Voting Registers

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