Rollesby, Norfolk
Historical Description
Rollesby, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 4½ miles NE of Acle, 7½ NW of Yarmouth, and 1½ mile SW of Martham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. It is a seat of petty sessions and has a post office under Great Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Martham. The parish comprises 1689 acres; population, 570. The workhouse for the East and West Flegg incorporation-a building of brick erected in 1777 to hold 400 inmates-stands within the parish. A fine sheet of water of about 200 acres, situated between Filby and Ormesby Broads, is known as Rollesby Broad, The manor belongs to the Ensor family. Rollesby Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £495 with residence. The church, which stands on rising-ground, is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some ancient tombs and some good stained windows. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. T. Goodwin, the chaplain of Cromwell, was a native.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Rollesby St. George | |
Hundred | West Flegg |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Rollesby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1902 | 1558-1902 | 1558-1902 | 1558-1900 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rollesby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rollesby (St. George))
Maps
Online maps of Rollesby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.