Place:Moulton St. Mary, Norfolk, England

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NameMoulton St. Mary
Alt namesModetunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 192
Mothetunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 192
Moulton St Marysource: Domesday Book (1985) p 192; Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) p 510
Moulton Saint Marysource: long form
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.601°N 1.542°E
Located inNorfolk, England
See alsoWalsham Hundred, Norfolk, Englandhundred in which it was located
Blofield Rural, Norfolk, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1935
Beighton, Norfolk, Englandparish which absorbed part of Moulton St. Mary in 1935
Reedham, Norfolk, Englandparish which absorbed part of Moulton St. Mary in 1935
Broadland District, Norfolk, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

NOTE: The parish of Moulton St. Michael is some miles to the southwest. Both parishes were often just called "Moulton", but in WeRelate Moulton redirects to Moulton St. Michael.


the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Moulton St Mary is a small village in the eastern part of the county of Norfolk, England, about two miles south of Acle. Its Church of St Mary is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. It has a canonical sundial on the south wall. The church is redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

The civil parish of Moulton St. Mary was abolished in 1935 and the land shared between the parishes of Beighton and Reedham.

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  • GENUKI provides a list of references for Moulton St. Mary. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.

GENUKI] also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Walsham 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:
  • 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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