Place:Coston, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

Coston is a small village near East Dereham and Norwich in Norfolk, England. It became part of the civil parish of Runhall in 1935.

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

"COSTON, a parish in Forehoe [registration] district, Norfolk; on the river Blackwater, adjacent to the Norfolk railway, 1½ mile S of Hardingham [railway] station, and 4½ NW of Wymondham. Post town: Wymondham. Acres: 342. Real property: £485. Population: 58. Houses: 12. The property is nearly all in one estate. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Runhall, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £103. Patron: alternately the Bishop of Norwich and the Earl of Kimberley. The church is good."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Coston. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Forehoe Hundred.
• 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.