Norfolk Contents
This is an outline of the contents of the Genuki Norfolk pages. It
only shows the main topics within each section, so that you can see how
the information has been arranged. There are two main categories:
- Information about Towns and Parishes
- Wherever possible, information is stored on a parish page. For
example the transcription of a census or a directory is linked
from its parish page.
- Information about all of Norfolk
- Information is stored here when it is about all of Norfolk, or
covers a region of Norfolk, or when it is impossible to divide
into parishes. For example links to libraries, societies, church
gazetteers, lookups, military records, occupations, etc.
Please follow the links below to see what is online.
These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and
the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web
pages. Please see the
Copyright Notice.
Copyright © Pat Newby
July 2004
Information about Towns and Parishes
- Towns, parishes and other places, in alphabetical order from Acle to
Yelverton.
- Censuses, churches, directories, parish records, pictures, maps, etc.
- Norfolk parish links.
- Search in the GENUKI Gazetteer.
Information about all of Norfolk
- Administrative areas for a hundred, archdeaconry, poor
law union, petty sessional division, etc.
- Glossary, defining such things as an archdeaconry, a civil parish,
an ecclesiastical parish, etc.
- Administrative regions of the British Isles.
- Norfolk libraries and their catalogues and resources.
- Norfolk Record Office, Norfolk Museums Service, etc.
- Genealogy.
- Local History.
- List of Monumental Inscriptions for Norfolk Parishes.
- Most cemeteries are linked from their individual parishes.
- Description, examples, publications, street indexes and surname
indexes.
- FreeCEN project.
- Census years:
before 1841, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, after 1901.
- CDs, fiche, online searching.
- Most censuses are linked from their individual parishes.
- Lists of Norfolk parishes, with their deaneries, administration
areas, etc.
- Norfolk churches directory.
- Search in the GENUKI Churches Database.
- Nonconformists.
- English church history.
- Most church history is linked from individual parishes.
- Baptisms, banns, marriages and burials.
- Description, resources, locations, transcripts and indexes.
- Boyd's Marriage Index, Phillimore's Marriage Registers, the
Marriage Witness Index, National Burial Index (NBI), International
Genealogical Index (IGI), British Vital Records Index, etc.
- Most church records are linked from their individual parishes.
- Births, marriages and deaths since 1837.
- FreeBMD project.
- Transcriptions.
- Register offices and registration districts.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London
- Historical descriptions of Norfolk.
- Breckland, the Broads, the Fens, Poppyland, etc.
- Places, pictures, rivers, waterways, etc.
- Most descriptions are linked from individual parishes.
- Lists of parishes and hundreds.
- Publications and transcriptions of directories.
- Description, coverage, years published.
- Most directory entries are linked from individual parishes.
- Genealogical and historical projects.
- Lookups and reciprocal research.
- Mailing lists and message boards.
- Domesday Book.
- Most history is linked from individual parishes.
- Tracing the history of a house.
- Country houses.
- Most information, such as inclosure, is linked from individual parishes.
- Norfolk maps, area maps, town and parish maps.
- Historical maps and modern maps.
- Publications, using maps for research.
- Maps online.
- Hospitals, dispensaries and asylums.
- Medical licences, records and locations.
- Regiments.
- Museums.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Roll of Honour, National Inventory
of War Memorials.
- People and families.
- Lists of surnames being researched.
- Present-day newspapers.
- Newspaper archives.
- Titles of newspapers, regional coverage, dates, and extracts.
- Glossaries and descriptions of occupations.
- Occupational mailing lists.
- Publications, lists of names, societies, projects.
- Poor law unions, areas covered, parishes.
- Workhouses, buildings, locations, pictures.
- Censuses, people.
- Publications.
- Statistics, census returns.
- Most population data is on individual parish pages.
- School history, locations, pictures, notes, etc.
- Most schools are linked from individual parishes.
- Family history societies.
- Societies for heraldry, historic buildings, history, etc.
- Other societies are linked from individual parishes.
- Parliamentary elections.
- Poll books, election registers, etc.
- Publications, years, areas covered, etc.
