Crostwight, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
CROSTWIGHT (All Saints), a parish, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, hundred of Tunstead, E. division of Norfolk, 3½ miles (E. by S.) from North Walsham.

Crostwight. All Saints, is an ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

A small parish church it is noted for its mediaeval wall paintings.

The name of Crostwight is considered to be Old Norse in origin (kross, 'cross' + þveit, 'clearing'). There are seven such names in Norfolk ending in -thwaite, and one in Suffolk, showing early Scandinavian settlement. While the suffix -thwaite was familiar north of the Humber and has survived there, it has been corrupted elsewhere. Forms of Crostwight's name recorded include Crostwit in 1086, Crosthueit in 1198, and Crostweyt in 1810.

Crostwight is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, which spells its name 'Crostwit'. At that time, it was held by Geoffrey [Baynard] under Ralph [Baynard]. TRE (in the time of King Edward the Confessor), twelve freemen at Crostwit had one hundred and 50 acres (200,000 m2) of land, and there were twelve borderers, with 16 acres (65,000 m2) of meadow. The whole was described as one league (leuca) in length and seven furlongs broad. There is a reference to the church of St Benet of Hulme, and the people mentioned include Esger the staller and Geoffrey Baynard.

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

Known Issues

Images for the parish registers due to an engineering error in loading do not appear at first glance to be in historic records (formerly Record Search).

The images can be located within the images for Crostwick parish.

Baptisms marriages and burials register 1698-1784 located under Crostwick&gt;Baptisms marriages and Burials 1698-1784

Births and Burials register 1784-1812 located under Crostwick&gt;Baptisms 1784-1812

Banns 1757-1812 and marriages 1757-1812 are located under Crostwick&gt;Banns 1757-1812

Marriages and Banns register 1757-1812 are located under Crostwick &gt;Marriages 1757-1812

Baptisms and burials 1784-1812 are located under Crostwick&gt;Burials 1784-1812

Marriages 1814-1836 are located under Crostwick&gt;Marriages 1814-1834

The images awaiting engineering and reloading correctly and with corrections to parish and register year coverage.

Parish registers, 1698-1836

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Hearth Tax
Transcript of 1664 Hearth Tax http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=168&amp;district_id=22&amp;document_type=720

Poor Law Unions

 * Tunstead
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Tunstead 1837-1869
 * Smallburgh 1870-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Crostwight on GenUKI
 * Crostwight All Saints on A Church Near You.
 * Crostwight (All Saints) British History online
 * Crosswight Norfolk Churches website