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Name | Stratton St. Michael |
Alt names | Stratton-St. Michael | source: from redirect | | Stratton St Michael | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 194; Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) p 684 | | Stratton St. Michael | source: Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) p 700 | | Stratuna | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 194 | | Stretuna | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 194 | | Stratton Saint Michael | source: long form |
Type | Inhabited place |
Coordinates | 52.485°N 1.237°E |
Located in | Norfolk, England ( - 1935) |
See also | Depwade Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | Depwade Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1935 | | Long Stratton, Norfolk, England | parish into which it was absorbed in 1935 | | South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stratton St. Michael from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "STRATTON-ST. MICHAEL, a parish in Depwade [registration] district, Norfolk; 1 mile NNE of Long Stratton, and 2½ ENE of Forncett [railway] station. Post town: Long Stratton. Acres: 1,050. Real property: £2,342. Population: 251 . Houses: 65. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £388. Patron: New College, Oxford. The church is ancient. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £7."
Stratton St. Michael was a civil parish immediately north of that of Stratton St. Mary (commonly known as Long Stratton). The two parishes were merged into one with the name Long Stratton in 1935.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Long Stratton (including references for Stratton St. Michael). Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- 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.
Categories: Norfolk, England | Stratton St. Michael, Norfolk, England | Depwade Hundred, Norfolk, England | Depwade Rural, Norfolk, England | Long Stratton, Norfolk, England | South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England
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