Norfolk: Brumstead

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Brumstead is about 11 miles E. of Aylsham.
The name is often found as Brunstead.

Cemeteries

Rye, Walter: The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing, in the county of Norfolk.
The parishes included are: Brumstead, Catfield, Eccles, Happisburgh, Hempstead, Hickling, Horsey, Ingham, Lessingham, Ludham, Palling, Potter Heigham, East Ruston, Stalham, Sutton, Walcot, and Waxham [Norwich, Goose, 1886]

Census

Church Directories

The parish is in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Peter.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Peter: Description, history, clergy, pictures, rectory, etc.

Church Records

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

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Brumstead was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Brumstead was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Description and Travel

Brumstead History: Description, history, maps, pictures, etc.

Gazetteers and Directories

Brumstead is in Happing hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Brumstead Inclosure Act, 1805.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Brumstead, in the county of Norfolk.
[1805]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Brumstead became part of the Tunstead and Happing (or Smallburgh) Union, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.

Population

Brumstead Population: Population over the last 1000 years.

Probate Records

Brumstead Wills: List of wills of people from Brumstead, 14th-19th centuries.

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