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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Caston is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 6.37 km2 (2.46 sq mi) and had a population of 459 in 174 households at the 2001 UK census, decreasing to a population of 443 also in 174 households at the 2011 UK census.
Caston is bounded by the parish of Carbrooke on the north, and then clockwise by Rockland St. Peter (later Rocklands), Stow Bedon, Thompson and Griston. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of Breckland.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Caston.
The additional material refers to the Gilman family whose members commenced to emigrate to Hingman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Caston. 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.
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