Burgh St Margaret
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1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Burgh St Margaret |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
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The parish of Burgh St Margaret (also rendered as Fleggburgh)
lies in eastern Norfolk about 6 miles northwest of the port of Great Yarmouth.
Burgh St Margaret is sited on the ancient island of Flegg and sits on
the A1064 road which crosses that former island en route from Acle to
Caister. Burgh St Margaret is a substantial village mostly set to the
north of the main road but with a small satellite to the southeast. Whilst
the village keeps its feet wet much of the parish would have consisted
of grazing marshes along the edges of the many broads and small rivers
hereabouts, to the south runs the course of the Muck Fleet which drains
Ormesby, Rollesby & Filby broads onwards into the main Bure. In consequence
of its site Burgh St Margaret would have had a mixed farming regime, pastures
on the wetter portions and arable on the dry land of Flegg. Nowadays Burgh
St Margaret is one of the centres of the tourism industry of Norfolk Broads
and day and weekly hire boats replace the wherries and fowlers in the
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| Two standard 800-entry register books cover the period of this transcript, the first finishing in 1856, the second running onwards to the early 20th century. Both register are filmed on Microfilm MF1634 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office which was used to prepare this transcript. The film is one of the recent batch of films which utilises much improved techniques and the resulting images are crisp and generally easy to read. There are the usual gripes and grumbles regarding handwriting and the registers do show some evidence of having been made up in batches which almost always results in errors or omissions on the part of the clerk. Despite these grumbles this was a straightforward piece to prepare. |
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