Ashby with Oby and Thurne, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk  Ashby with Oby and Thurne

Parish History
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Ashby with Oby and Thurne is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Norfolk, created in 1604 from Ashby with Oby Ancient Parish and Thurne Ancient Parish.

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.

Church records
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. 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

Norfolk Record Office reference for combined parish registers of Ashby, Oby and Thurne PD308/1-3, 5-7

Census records
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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.

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

Norfolk_Poor_Law_Unions

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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