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Norfolk: Great Yarmouth

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Great Yarmouth is about 20 miles E. of Norwich.

Information about Yarmouth often includes Gorleston, Southtown and Caister-on-Sea.

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July 2016

Archives and Libraries

Young, Rachel Mary Ransford
Treasures of the Yarmouth museums.
[Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Museum Service, 1976]

Business and Commerce Records

Fewster, Mary Innes
The Yarmouth herring industry 1880-1960. (Vol.1: Text; Vol.2: Photographs).
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1985]
Lewis, Charles
Pierhead paintings: ship portraits from East Anglia.
[Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service, c1982]
Murphy, John Desmond
The town and trade of Great Yarmouth, 1740-1850.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1979]

Cemeteries

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Census

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses

Chronology

Finch-Crisp, William
Chronological retrospect of the history of Yarmouth and neighbourhood from A.D. 46 to 1884: containing about 5,000 important local events.
[Great Yarmouth, 1884]
Finch-Crisp's Chronology is online.
McBride, John
A Diary of Great Yarmouth.
3000 chronological facts, with over 4,600 indexed entries by topic.
[ISBN 0952071908, 1998]
Norfolk Record Office: Information Leaflet 20
Key Dates in the History of Great Yarmouth.

Church Directories

Church History

Park (and Tabernacle) Baptist Church
Pictures, history, ministers, etc.
This is a link to an archived copy.
(No author)
Chronicles of the old Congregational Church at Great Yarmouth, 1642-1858.
[Great Yarmouth, 1908]
Minster Church of St Nicholas
Pictures, history, etc.
Lupson, Edward John
St Nicholas' Church, Great Yarmouth: its history, organ, pulpit, library etc.
[Yarmouth, Lupson, 1881]
Christchurch Methodist Church, Newtown
Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
Watmough, A.
A history of Methodism in the town and neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth: including biographical sketches of some of the leading characters who have been among the Methodists at that place.
[London, John Kershaw, 1826]
"Old Meeting" Unitarian Church
Picture, description, minister, etc.

Church Records

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Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1923 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Great Yarmouth was in Yarmouth Registration District.

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration

Description and Travel

Description and Travel
Web Sites
General Works
Specific Works
Pictorial Collections
Transport
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

Directories

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Emigration and Immigration

Jewson, Charles Boardman
Transcript of three registers of passengers from Great Yarmouth to Holland and New England, 1637 to 1639.
[Norwich, Norfolk Record Society Vol 25, 1954]

Historical Geography

Parish outline and location.
See Parish Map for the Borough of Great Yarmouth

History

History
 

Jewish History

Jewish Cemeteries in Yarmouth
International Jewish Cemetery Project

Land and Property

See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

The Hutch Map
This is a 16th century map showing the possible state of the estuary at Yarmouth, in about the year 1000.
Faden's Map of 1797
This shows a plan of Yarmouth, with the rows and the town walls.
Maps of 1997
These show the streets of Yarmouth, with their names.
Norfolk Record Office: Information Leaflet 25
Old Yarmouth in Maps and Plans
Modern and Historical Maps
Maps of the parish.

Military Records

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Newspapers

Palmer, Frederick Danby
Yarmouth notes, 1830-1872: collated from the file of the Norwich Mercury.
[Great Yarmouth, Buckle, 1889]

Occupations

Rutledge, Paul
A calendar of Great Yarmouth enrolled apprenticeship indentures, 1563-1665.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society Vol 11, 1979]

Politics and Government

Gauci, Perry
Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth, 1660-1722.
[ISBN 0198206054, Oxford Historical Monographs, 1996]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

In 1837 Great Yarmouth Poor Law Union was created, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Great Yarmouth Union
Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before 1834, etc.
Great Yarmouth Union and Workhouse
Description and pictures.

Schools

Whitehead, John Benson
The history of the Great Yarmouth Grammar School 1551-1951: with some account of the town.
[Great Yarmouth, 1951]

Societies

Gt Yarmouth and District Archaeological Society
List of Articles in Yarmouth Archaeology from 1979

Town Records

Great Yarmouth Corporation
Handlist of the archives of date before 1835 preserved in the Town Clerk's Department.
[London, Historical Manuscripts Commission for the National Register of Archives, 1965]
Great Yarmouth Corporation
A report of the investigation before His Majesty's municipal commissioners, J.G. Hogg and J. Buckle, esqrs., barristers at law, appointed to examine into, and report on the corporate affairs of this borough; compiled by Henry Barrett.
[London, Barnes; Norwich, Bacon and Kinnebrook, 1834]
NNAS
A Calendar of the freemen of Great Yarmouth, 1429-1800: compiled from the records of the Corporation of that Borough.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1910]
Rutledge, Paul (Ed)
Great Yarmouth Assembly minutes, 1538-1545; (with the Norwich accounts for the customs on strangers' goods and merchandise, 1582-1610, edited by D.L. Richwood).
[Norwich, Norfolk Record Society, vol 39, 1970]
Rutledge, Paul
Guide to the Great Yarmouth borough records.
[ISBN 090310301X, Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Record Office, 1972]

Voting Registers

Voting Registers - Poll Books, Election Registers, etc.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers