Scoulton, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
SCOULTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wayland, W. division of Norfolk, 3¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Hingham.

Scoulton Holy Trinity is an Ancient parish in the Hingham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

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.

Wayland 1837-1974

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 366/1-5

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Wayland Poor Law Union

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Norfolk: Scoulton on GenUKI
 * High Oak Ingham and Scoulton with Wood Rising benefice
 * Images history and audio guide to the church
 * Church of Holy Trinity - Scoulton on British listed buildings
 * British History online
 * Scoulton on Norfolk Churches