Place:Burgh St. Margaret, Norfolk, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Burgh St. Margaret from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"BURGH-ST. MARGARET AND ST. MARY, a parish in Flegg [registration] district, Norfolk; near the river Bure, 4¼ miles NE of Acle, and 7½ NW of Yarmouth [railway] station. It has a post office of the name of Burgh, under Norwich; and had formerly a market. Acres: 1,655. Real property: £4,110. Population: 554. Houses: 125. The property is much divided. The living is a double rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £424. Patron: the Rev. W. Lucas. The church of St. Margaret is good; and that of St. Mary is in ruins. There are a dissenting chapel, a national school," and charities £79."

Burgh St. Margaret was an ancient and civil parish until 1935 when it was absorbed into a new parish named Fleggburgh which also included the parishes of Billockby and Clippesby. Fleggburgh is in the Great Yarmouth District and is located between the town of Great Yarmouth and the village of Acle.

The map of the parishes of East and West Flegg Hundred shows that Burgh St. Margaret had two detached parts with the parish of Billockby separating them. Clippesby wraps around the other two on the northwest. It is easy to see why the three parishes should have been merged and renamed.

Research Tips

• GENUKI refers the researcher to general references for Norfolk rather than a list for Burgh St. Margaret. Some of these entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of the Hundreds of East and West Flegg.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.