Corton, Suffolk, England Genealogy

England

Suffolk

Suffolk Parishes

Corton

Guide to Corton, Suffolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Suffolk
Hundred	Mutford and Lothingland
Poor Law Union	Mutford and Lothingland
Registration District	Mutford
Records Begin
Parish registers	1579
Bishop's Transcripts	1698
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Lothingland
Diocese	Norwich
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk
Archive
Suffolk Record Office

Parish History

CORTON, a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; on the coast, near the East Suffolk railway, 3 miles N by W of Lowestoft.

Refer to the works listed in Suffolk Gazetteers or England Gazetteers for source material.

Resources

If you live in Suffolk you will have access to a variety of resources at local archives and libraries. For those who live further afield, one can access online records available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library. Refer to Corton and Suffolk in the FamilySearch Catalogue for available records.

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Cemeteries

• Cemetery Inscriptions of Corton(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions, Corton, Suffolk County, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions, Suffolk, Corton, England (St. Batholomew)(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Church Records

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
NonConformist Records refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Due to the increasing access of online records:

• Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  
• Dates in the following table are approximate
  

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Corton Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Suffolk	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
FamilySearch Parish Registers – Suffolk	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Suffolk ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Ancestry Church of England BMD-Suffolk ($)	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1500s-1800s

Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

• Joiner Marriage Index - Suffolk ($)
• The Genealogist Parish Registers - Suffolk ($)
• UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
• Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

• 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary

Registration District

Corton is in Mutford district. To search an index of Mutford district records go to FreeBMD. The Suffolk Civil Registration article tells more about these records. Civil Registration began in 1837.

Poor Law Unions

• Mutford and Lothingland http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Mutford/

Probate Court

Suffolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes C

Maps

England Jurisdictions 1851

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England Databases (FamilySearch) - free

Digital images of Bishop's Transcripts are available in the FamilySearch Catalog

FreeREG - free

England Records (Findmypast) - ($)

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Suffolk, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1850 ($)

Various indexes of Birth/Christening, Marriage, and Death/Burial records are available on Ancestry.

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (Findmypast) - free

National Burial Index For England & Wales (Findmypast) - free

Users should verify which locations and dates are included in this collection.