1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Gayton St Nicholas |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of gayton lies in western Norfolk about 7 miles
east of the port of King's Lynn. Gayton sits at the crossroads of two
"B" roads, the B1145 running from King's Lynn through to Bawdeswell
& the B1153 running from Narborough through to Docking. Gayton is
a substantial village, one of the larger in the area, with most properties
built either side of the B1145 and west of the B1153. Whilst Gayton would
have been a largely arable farming community and the land is still intensively
worked, today it is growing as a commuter settlement for the port &
industry of King's Lynn. Gayton parish was extensive, one of the larger
in Norfolk, it covered almost 3,300 acres making it almost 2 1/2 times
larger than many eastern Norfolk parishes, its situation at the eastern
edge of the coastal plain and butting up against the rising ground of
Massingham Heath would have led to a variety of soil types and hence cropping. |
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Three standard 800-entry register books cover the period of this transcript, the final book being completed in 1928. All three books are filmed on Microfilm MF1639 which was used to prepare this transcript. Whilst this film is of the more improved quality of recent filmings, it certainly needs to be as the registers show a considerable amount of fading and would in places have been unreadable if poorer quality film was used. This made the transcript quite a challenge to prepare and the expectation is that a few misreads may well have been made as a result. Hopefully they will be few in number but that cannot be wholly ruled out. |
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