Norfolk: West Bradenham

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West Bradenham is about 7 miles E. of Swaffham.
The name may also be spelled West Braddenham.
See also East Bradenham.

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: St Andrew's Church, West Bradenham: Memorial Inscriptions, with index.
[Dereham, 1990s]

Census

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 Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.
Church of St Andrew: Description, services, location, pictures, etc.

Church Records

Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Churchwardens' Rates: Principal property occupiers and the amounts paid.
1786.
Valuation of 1823: Names of people.
Extracts from Parish Register Transcripts: Ministers, names, and newspaper cuttings.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), West 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.
West Bradenham Mill: Description, history and map.

Directories

Historical Geography

West 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

West Bradenham Hall: Description, history, gardens, pictures, etc.
Inclosure: See Holme Hale

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]

Names, Personal

Haggard: See Norfolk People and Families

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 West 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 48 59 300

1811 71 91 307

1821 58 79 385

1831 82 83 370

1841 85 -- 364

1851 91 -- 422

Year Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 88 -- 387

1871 83 86 326

1881 75 76 305

1891 66 66 279

1901 65 65 274

1911 -- 65 272

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.

1901 Census: "Including West End."

This has been found by the Norfolk transcribers for FreeREG, on page 25 of the West Bradenham register of baptisms 1791-1812.

Return of the Population of West Bradenham A.D. 1813

Number of Houses Inhabited 50

D^o of Families 72

D^o of Persons 323

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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