Ormesby St Michael or Little Ormesby, Norfolk
Historical Description
Ormesby St Michael or Little Ormesby, a parish in Norfolk, 1½ mile W by N of Ormesby St Margaret village and station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 6 miles NNW of Yarmouth station. Post town. Great Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Ormesby St Margaret. Acreage, 908 of land and 131 of water; population, 336. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Ormesby Broad is a lake of about 100 acres, adjoining Rollesby Broad. Ormesby House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ormesby St Margaret, in the diocese of Norwich. The church, which is a small structure of stone chiefly in the Early English style, consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and contains monuments of the Upchers and the Mannings. There are a church and a poor's estate yielding £42 a year.
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 | Ormsby St. Michael | |
Hundred | East 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 Ormesby St Michael:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1568-1915 | 1568-1915 | 1602-1902 | 1594-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ormesby St Michael or Little Ormesby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ormsby (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Ormesby St Michael or Little Ormesby 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.