Norfolk: Downham Market
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Downham Market is about 10 miles S. of King's Lynn.
It is also known as Downham.
It is also the name of the civil registration district and the poor law union,
so a reference to Downham could mean this parish, or this area of Norfolk.
In 1896 it was divided into two civil parishes, the rural part called
Downham West,
and the urban called Downham Market.
See also Downham in Wymondham.
Business and Commerce Records
- F.A. Bird Downham Mills Ltd
- History of F.A. Bird Downham Mills Ltd, flour and provender millers.
[Downham Market, The Company, 1960s]
[Two page typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library]
Cemeteries
- Downham Market
- Transcriptions of memorial inscriptions in the church and
churchyard of St Edmund, the war memorial, and the Churchside
and King's Walk cemeteries.
This is a link to an archived copy.
- King's Walk Cemetery
- Description and pictures.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Fincham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Edmund
- Services, detailed church guide book, town history, pictures,
memorials inside the church, rectors, etc.
- Church of St Edmund
- Description and pictures.
- Church of St Edmund
- Services, map, etc.
- Roman Catholic Church of St Dominic
- Description and pictures.
- St Dominic Catholic Church
- St Dominic's.
[Downham Market, 1980s]
- Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
- Downham Market Salvation Army Church
- Description, location, picture, etc.
- Whybrow, Martin
- Going places, meeting places: a brief account of the Salvation
Army and the Society of Friends in Downham Market.
[Downham Market, Salvation Army, 2003]
Church Records
- Church of St Edmund
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- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- Archdeacons' Transcripts
- Marriages 1725-1812
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
- Primitive Methodist Circuit
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- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1829-1880
- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1826-1866 and 1866-1890, with indexes.
[Transcripts in Norwich Local Studies Library]
- United Methodist Circuit
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- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1850-1880
- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1850-1899
[Transcript in Norwich Local Studies Library]
- Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
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- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1814-1880
- Bodle, A.N.; and Palgrave-Moore, Patrick
- Norfolk Nonconformist Registers.
No.3: Downham Market Wesleyan Methodist births and
baptisms 1814-1837; transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, 1986]
- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1837-1869, 1870-1886, and 1886-1903, with indexes.
[Transcripts in Norwich Local Studies Library]
- Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1872-1894 [sic], with index.
[Transcript in Norwich Local Studies Library]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Downham Market was in
Downham Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Downham Market
- Description, history and pictures.
- Downham Market
- Photographs and postcards.
- Bullen, Mike
- Around Downham Market: Downham Market, Denver, Hilgay and Southery.
[ISBN 0752410938, Chalford Publishing Company, Archive Photographs
Series, 1998]
[ISBN 1845881115, Nonsuch Publishing, Pocket Images, 2005]
- Downham Market Community Site
- News, events, pictures, businesses, etc.
- Downham Market Town Council
- Councillors, meetings, minutes, history, organisations,
churches, schools, pictures, etc.
- Downham Market Businesses
- Businesses, buildings, history, etc.
- Downham Market Bexwell Road Post Mill
- Description and history.
- Downham Market Cowgate Street Tower Mill
- Description and history.
- Downham Market Denver Road Post Mill
- Description.
- Downham Market Howdale Post Mill
- Description and history.
- Downham Market Lynn Road Post Mill
- Description and history.
- Downham Market Mill Hill Post Mill
- Description and history.
- Downham Market Steam Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
- Salter's Lode Smock Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Downham Market is in Clackclose Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Clackclose Hundred
- Description of Clackclose Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
History
- Downham Market and District Amenity Society
- A History of Downham Market.
[Downham Market, The Society, 1990s]
- Shaw, Christopher
- Denver, Downham Market and Bexwell, Welney, West Dereham:
a brief history for local and family historians.
[Printed by Spindrift Print and Publishing,
Series: Downham Market and around Book 2, 2009]
- Wortley, John Dixon
- Downham Market: its church (St Edmund) and history.
[Norwich, Goose and Son, 1924]
Land and Property
- Drainage
- See Stoke Ferry,
Welney
and Wimbotsham
- Inclosure
- See Wimbotsham
- Land Tax
- Principal property owners and occupiers, and the amounts paid.
1791.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Downham Market Street Map
- 1887.
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military History
RAF Downham Market was at Bexwell.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour
- World Wars 1 and 2.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
- Care of the poor in Downham Market
- Charities, bequests, the workhouse, account books, board of
guardians, etc.
After 1834 Downham Market became part of the Downham Union, and the workhouse
was in this parish.
- Downham Union
- Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before
1834, etc.
- Downham Union and Workhouse
- Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- Downham Union and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
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 | 278 | 333 | 1512 |
1811 | 368 | 372 | 1771 |
1821 | 417 | 436 | 2044 |
1831 | 458 | 469 | 2198 |
1841 | 563 | --- | 2953 |
1851 | 666 | --- | 3262 |
1861 | 657 | --- | 3133 |
|
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
1871 | 683 | 764 | 3272 |
1881 | 695 | 766 | 3256 |
1891 | 566 | --- | 2537 DMkt |
| 110 | --- | 469 DWest |
1901 | 591 | 599 | 2472 DMkt |
| 108 | 108 | 439 DWest |
1911 | --- | 614 | 2497 DMkt |
| --- | 104 | 420 DWest |
|
DMkt - Downham Market
DWest - Downham West
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.
- 1841 and 1851 Censuses
- "The return for Downham Market Parish includes 114 persons in 1841,
and 222 in 1851, in the Union Workhouse. For the Town of Downham
see page 72."
Page 72 shows that, in 1851, the town of Downham had 585 inhabited
houses, and a population of 2867.
- 1891 Census
- The total number of families in Downham Market and Downham West
was 688.
- 1901 Census
- Downham West: "Including Salter's Lode."
- 1911 Census
- Out of the population of 2497 in the town of Downham Market, 154
were in 3 large establishments or institutions.
Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1912 says: "The population in
1911 was 2,497, including 9 officers and 75 inmates in the workhouse."
Societies
- Downham Market Family History Society
- Meetings, etc.
- Downham Market and District Heritage Society
- Description, heritage centre, membership, meetings, etc.
- Downham Market Lecture Society
- Lectures and classes.
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2013