Norfolk: Gaywood

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Gaywood is about 1 mile E. of King's Lynn.
It includes an area called Highgate.

Cemeteries

Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, West Norfolk Branch: Memorial Inscriptions for St Faith's Churchyard, Gaywood.
[Norfolk FHS, 1988]

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Faith: Description and pictures.
Church of St Faith: Services, etc.
Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family: Description and pictures.
Gaywood Methodist Church: Minister, services, picture, etc.

Church Records

Marriages 1653-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 9.
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Avis, Anthony: Gaywood: a Norfolk Village Childhood.
Memories of the village and people from 1927 to 1946.
[ISBN 0952366606, 1996]
Avis, Anthony: Gaywood Remembered: a Pictorial Recollection.
[ISBN 0952366614, 1995]
Avis, Anthony: Gaywood Past: Some Historical Notes.
[ISBN 0952366649, 1999]
Avis, Anthony: The Avis Family of Gaywood: a brief account of their residence in Gaywood from around 1830 to 1946.
[Privately published, 2002]
Gaywood Fairstead Post Mill: Description, history and maps.
Gaywood Almshouse Lane Post Mill: Description and history.
Gaywood Almshouse Lane Tower Mill: Description, history and maps.
Gaywood Homeland Road Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Gaywood Loke Road Post Mill (earlier): Description and history.
Gaywood Loke Road Post Mill (later): Description and history.
Gaywood Wootton Road Post Mill: Description and history.
Gaywood Wootton Road Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Gaywood is in Freebridge Lynn hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Gaywood (25) and Mintlyn (2) [and South Wootton (7)].
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1808.
[1808]
Great Britain: Statute: Gaywood and Mintlyn Inclosure Act, 1808.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Gaywood and Mintlyn, in the county of Norfolk: 14th April 1808.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1808]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Gaywood became part of the Freebridge Lynn Union, and the workhouse was at Gayton.

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   83   83   410

1811   86   93   483

1821   98 109   474

1831 200 216   924

1841 225 --- 1064

1851 280 --- 1338

Year   Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 325 --- 1368

1871 366 366 1489

1881 171 175   805

1891 221 221   952

1901 263 263 1141

1911 --- 344 1411

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.

1831 Census: "Many houses have been built in the Parishes of Gayton and Gaywood, to which cause the increase of Population (166 and 450 Persons respectively) is attributed."
1831 Census [sic]: "The increase of population in Gaywood is attributed to the extension of building."
1881 Census: No reason is given for the decrease in population, though White's Directory for 1883 says "a portion [of Highgate] has lately been incorporated with the borough of Lynn".

Voting Registers

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