Place:Thrigby, Norfolk, England

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

"THRIGBY, a parish in Flegg [registration] district, Norfolk; 5 miles WNW of Yarmouth [railway] station. Post town: Stokesby, under Norwich. Acres: 575. Real property: £1,349. Population: 45. Houses: 10. The manor belongs to T. Browne, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £212. Patron: T. Browne, Esq. The church is ancient."

Thrigby was a small ancient parish and civil parish originally in East Flegg Hundred in Norfolk and from 1894 until 1935 in East and West Flegg Rural District. In 1935 the civil parish was abolished and the land and its inhabitants were absorbed into the parish of Mautby. The area has been, since 1974, part of the Great Yarmouth District.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Thrigby. Some 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.