Norfolk: East Bradenham

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East Bradenham is about 8 miles E. of Swaffham.
The name may also be spelled East Braddenham.
See also West Bradenham.

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: St Mary's Church, East Bradenham: Memorial Inscriptions, with index.
[Dereham, 1998]

Census

1831: Numbers of households, males, females, etc.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Cranwich, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mary: Picture.
Barnes, Anthony: St Mary's Church, East Bradenham.
[Churches Conservation Trust, Series 4, No 98, 1997]

Church Records

Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), East Bradenham was in Swaffham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Dewing, Rita: Bradenham: A Popular History of a Norfolk Village.
[2005]
No author: Bradenham Bygones: Photographs of Bradenham over the last 100 years.
East Bradenham Mill: Description, history and map.

Gazetteers and Directories

East Bradenham is in South Greenhoe hundred.

History

Carthew, George Alfred: A history, topographical, archaeological, genealogical, and biographical, of the parishes of West and East Bradenham, with those of Necton and Holme Hale, in the county of Norfolk, from the Public Records, Court Rolls, Wills, Parish Registers, and private sources.
[Norwich, Agas H. Goose, 1883]

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: East Bradenham Inclosure Act, 1814.
An act for inclosing lands within the parish of East Bradenham, in the county of Norfolk.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1814]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Swaffham Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Military Records

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: The Bradenham Book of Remembrance: the men of East and West Bradenham who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
[2004]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 East Bradenham became part of the Swaffham Union, and the workhouse was at Swaffham.

Population

These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and single occupiers.

Year Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1801 28 41 137

1811 30 42 253

1821 61 70 340

1831 68 72 381

1841 74 -- 368

1851 81 -- 422

Year Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 86 -- 399

1871 83 85 386

1881 78 85 326

1891 75 75 314

1901 70 70 286

1911 -- 68 275

There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.

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