Place:Ashby with Oby, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Ashby with Oby is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, located some 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Acle and 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Great Yarmouth. The parish largely comprises scattered farms, and is named for the tiny settlements of Ashby and Oby (redirected here).

The civil parish has an area of 5.72 square kilometres (2 sq mi). In the 2001 census it had a population of 69 in 28 households. At the 2011 UK census the population of the parish remained less than 100 and thus was counted with that of the adjacent civil parish of Thurne. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of Great Yarmouth.

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

"ASHBY, a parish in Flegg [registration] district, Norfolk; near the river Bure, 8 miles NE of Brundall [railway] station, and 12 ENE of Norwich. Post Town: Ludham under Norwich. Acres, with Oby and Thirne: 1,408. Real property, with Oby: £3,085. Population of Ashby: 16. Houses, 3. Ashby, Oby, and Thirne are three rectories forming one benefice in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £690. Patron: the Bishop of Norwich."

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

"OBY, a parish in Flegg district, Norfolk; on the river Bure, 3½ miles N of Acle, and 7 N E of Brundall [railway] station. Post-town: Ludham, under Norwich. Acres, with Ashby: 1,408. Real property, with Ashby: £3,085. Population of [Oby] alone: 80. Houses: 12. The living is a rectory, united with the rectories of Ashby and Thirne, in the diocese of Norwich. The church for the three rectories is in Thirne, but the parsonage is in Oby; and here also are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school."

From the FamilySearch Wiki which refers only to ecclesiastical parishes:

"Thurne St Edmund is the parish church a Norman church with thatched roof. Thurne is the Saxon word for a thorn bush.

"ASHBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the East and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of West Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N.) from Acle. This parish was consolidated with those of Thirne and Oby in 1604. [1]"

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Ashby with Oby. 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.