Southtown, Suffolk, England Genealogy
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| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Suffolk |
| Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
| Poor Law Union | Yarmouth |
| Registration District | Mutford |
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| Parish registers | 1897; For more records see Gorleston |
| Bishop's Transcripts | None |
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| Rural Deanery | Lothingland |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk |
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| Suffolk Record Office | |
Parish History
SOUTHTOWN, anciently a parish, but now commonly considered a hamlet in the parish of Gorleston, locally in the hundred of Mutfrod and Lothingland, E. division of Suffolk. This place was formerly called Little Yarmouth, and is a suburb to Great Yarmouth.[1]
Southtown St Mary is an ecclesiastical parish within the Diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk. Southtown St Mary became a chapelry to Gorleston in 1511. Gorleston was united with the hamlet of Southtown, whose parish church of St Mary was demolished in 1548, the stone being used to build a pier.
A subsequent chapel of ease to Gorleston which later became a parish.
Church 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
For church records in Southtown, search the church records in Gorleston
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.
Poor Law Unions
- For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Yarmouth/Yarmouth.shtml
Registration Districts
- Mutford
Maps and Gazetteers
Websites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 149-152. Date accessed: 09 October 2013.
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