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1 Parish History
2 Resources
3 Maps and Gazetteers
4 Web sites
5 Reference

Parish History

CAISTOR near Yarmouth (St. Edmund), a parish, in the East and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of East Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 19½ miles (E.) from Norwich. ^[1]

Caister on Sea Holy Trinity is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.

A fourteenth century church with Victorian renovation.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Flegg 1837-1924
Caister next Yarmouth 1925-1926
East Caister, West Caister to 1938
Great Yarmouth 1939-1974

Church records

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

The parish is sometimes referred to as Caister-next-Yarmouth. This desingation is used by Phillimore and Holley Phillimore 1899-1936

Norfolk Record Office reference PD450/1-11, 20-21

This parishregisters do not appear in Historic Record Collections (formerly Record Search) because no microfilm of the parish is held.

A transcript collection Parish register transcripts, 1563-1837 Caister-next-Yarmouth with index Baptisms, burials, 1563-1812; marriages, 1563-1837 is available in images as a result of conversion from microfilm

Content	Film
Parish register transcripts	FHL BRITISH Film 1911696 Item 18

The transcript is handwritten

Nonconformist Churches

Church records for the Great Yarmouth circuit, 1842-1893 Primitive Methodist

Content	Film
Baptisms, 1832-1869, 1879-1893	FHL BRITISH Film 930327

Census records

a. Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 438855. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Poor Law Unions

East and West Flegg http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Flegg/Flegg.shtml

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Norfolk Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.