Norfolk: Happisburgh

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Happisburgh is about 12 miles E. of Aylsham.
The name is pronounced as Haisborough or Haisbro.
These spellings (with many variations such as Hasebro, Hasburgh, etc) are often found in written records.

Cemeteries

Church of St Mary the Virgin: Transcriptions of gravestones in the churchyard.
The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Happisburgh.
See Brumstead

Census

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Mary the Virgin: Description, services, pictures, etc.
Church of St Mary the Virgin: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mary the Virgin: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mary the Virgin: Services, minister, pictures, etc.
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton: Church of St Mary, Happisburgh.
[Ipswich, Home Words, 1960]
Trett, Mary H.: The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Happisburgh, Norfolk.
[Happisburgh, The Church, 1970s]
Southgate, William: The history of the Happisburgh Primitive Methodist Sunday School.
[1860]
Southgate, William: The origin or introduction of the Primitive Methodists into this locality or neighbourhood with an outline of a few leading particulars that have transpired from that time to the present.
[Norwich, Jarrold and Sons, 1866]

Church Records

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), Happisburgh was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

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

Description and Travel

Happisburgh: Description, history, pictures, parish council, events, school, lifeboats, wartime, lighthouse, shipwrecks, etc.
Happisburgh: Description, history, pictures, church, buildings, etc.
Happisburgh: Description, pictures, etc.
Pestell, R.E.: Happisburgh: the story of a coastal parish.
[Norwich, Harrison, 1972]
Trett, Mary; Hoggett, Richard; and the Happisburgh Heritage Group: The Book of Happisburgh.
[Halsgrove, 2011]
Happisburgh Post Mill: Description and history.
Happisburgh Mill Farm Post Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Happisburgh is in Happing hundred.

History

A Chronology of Medieval Happisburgh: Description, history and pictures.
This is a link to an archived copy.

Land and Property

Kelly, Geoffrey Ian: Barron Lodge Farm Happisburgh: a history.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 2001]
Land Allotment and Drainage: See Hempstead near Stalham.

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.

Maritime Records

There were many shipwrecks off the coast of Happisburgh, on the Hasbro sands. There is also a mass grave in the churchyard for 119 of the crew of HMS Invincible, which foundered offshore in March 1801.

Happisburgh Lifeboat Station: Description, history and pictures.
Leach, Nicholas: A history of Happisburgh lifeboat station.
[ISBN 0952279908, Norfolk and Suffolk Research Group, 1994]
Leach, Nicholas: The Happisburgh Lifeboats.
[ISBN 0952279932, Norfolk and Suffolk Research Group, 1999]
Hayes, Derek R.: His Majesty's late ship the Invincible: third rate 74 guns, 1765-1801.
The wreck off Happisburgh, March 1801.
[ISBN 0951083201, 1985]
Trett, Mary H.: The tragic shore: the loss of HMS Peggy and HMS Invincible.
[1998?]

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2, and HMS Invincible.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

In 1785 Happisburgh became part of the Tunstead and Happing Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.
In 1869 the incorporation became the Smallburgh Union.

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	93	114	526
1811	89	107	487
1821	95	118	523
1831	133	136	582
1841	142	---	631
1851	151	---	621

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	144	---	584
1871	138	138	546
1881	135	141	556
1891	125	127	517
1901	126	126	547
1911	---	134	517

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.

1861 Census: "TUNSTEAD. The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the Tunstead District, which forms the "Tunstead and Happing Incorporation" for the support of the poor, is attributed to emigration and the migration of young persons to other parts."
1901 Census: "Including Happisburgh Common, and Whimpwell Green."

Societies

Happisburgh Heritage Group: Description, membership, etc.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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