Place:Threxton, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Threxton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"THREXTON, a parish in Swaffham [registration] district, Norfolk; 2¼ miles W by S of Watton [railway] station. Post town: Watton, under Thetford. Acres: 1,097. Real property: £935. Population: 80. Houses: 13. There is a Roman camp; and Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory, annexed to Swaffham.

Threxton was an ancient or eccleasiastical parish in Wayland Hundred and from 1894 until 1935 was a civil parish in Swaffham Rural District. In 1935 the civil parish was abolished and the lands transferred to the parish of Little Cressingham. The area is now part of the Breckland District of Norfolk.

Wikipedia refers to the church, Threxton All Saints, which has a 13th-century round tower as well as a 14th-century octagonal font and remnants of medieval stained glass in at least one window. Otherwise Wikipedia makes no reference to the former parish.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Threxton. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Wayland Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• 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.