1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Cley-next-the-Sea St Margaret |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Cley-next-the-Sea sits on Norfolk's northern
North Sea coast roughly midway between the port of Wells and the seaside
resorts of Sheringham & Cromer, it is roughly 7 miles east of Wells.
Cley was formerly a significant port, as can readily be seen from the
occupations of the fathers in this transcript. It was also, for a while,
a market town but that status lapsed. Cley had one brief brush with history
as in the early 15th century Prince James of Scotland was forced ashore
at Cley during a storm whilst en-route to France and was held captive
for many years by Henry IV. Today Cley is just a large coastal village
sitting on the A149 road which follows the former shoreline with extensive
tracts of saltmarshes stretching a further half mile or so to the shingle
bank that forms, eventually, Blakeney Point. Cley's port, while much smaller
than that of Wells, was noted for the import of timber, coal, tallow &
oil-cake whilst it exported Norfolk's agricultural products mainly to
the Low Countries. Sadly the channel linking Cley suffered from silting
and is nowadays more used for pleasure craft than in a commercial use.
Today Cley is probably most famous for those saltmarshes being the home
of one of England's finest nature reserves, a flagship on a coast littered
with reserves and famous for hosting many rare birds over the years. Cley
mainly earns its living from tourism today and is an important stopover
site on Norfolk coastal trail. |
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Two standard 800-entry register books cover the period of this transcript and slightly longer in the case of the second, which finishes in 1885. Both registers are filmed on Microfilm MF694 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office, images of both registers are also available in Familysearch and the subscription web sites. The film is not one of the more recent high quality films and suffers somewhat as a result. There are periods of fading and the handwriting at times leaves much to be desired. It is possible, therefore, that some misreads may have occurred as a result of these quality issues. |
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