Norfolk: Hempstead near Stalham

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Hempstead near Stalham is about 14 miles E. of Aylsham.
It is consolidated with Eccles by the Sea in some records, and is known as Hempstead with Eccles.
See also Hempstead by Holt.

Cemeteries

Chastney, Roy: Hempstead St Andrew: Memorials in the church and graveyard, with burial records 1813-1998.
[Typescript in Norwich local studies library, 1998]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Hempstead.
See Brumstead

Census

1841: Surname List. This is a link to an archived copy.
1851: Names and analysis
Heads of households, some other names, occupations, etc, and a comparison with the situation in 1881.
1871: Hempstead with Eccles
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Waxham, 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, history and pictures.
Church of St Andrew: Services and location.

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), Hempstead was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

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

Description and Travel

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Gazetteers and Directories

Hempstead near Stalham is in Happing hundred.

History

Hempstead History: Mediaeval history.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Hempstead and other parishes land-allotment and drainage act, 1812.
An act for allotting the lands in the parish of Hempstead, in the county of Norfolk, and for the drainage of the marshes or fen grounds within the said parish; and of certain other marshes, meadows, and low grounds, within the several parishes of Happisburgh, Eccles, Palling next the Sea, Lessingham, and Ingham, in the county aforesaid: 20th March 1812.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812]

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

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