Place:Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Tivetshall St. Mary is a civil parish in the District of South Norfolk and county of Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 4.65 km2 (1.80 sq mi) and had a population of 302 in 117 households at the 2001 UK census, the population falling to 298 at the 2011 UK census.

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 combines the descriptions of Tivetshall St. Margaret and Tivetshall St. Mary into one and these will be found under Tivetshall St. Margaret. The Gazetteer descriptions are provided by A Vision of Britain through Time.

Tivetshall St. Margaret and Tivetshall St. Mary appear to have remained two separate parishes right up to the present day.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Tivetshall St. Mary. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Diss Hundred may be useful.
• 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.