Norfolk: Hingham

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Hingham is about 6 miles W. of Wymondham.
It is also the name of a deanery.

Cemeteries

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Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Hingham, 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 Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Minister, services, location, description, history, pictures, etc.
Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.
No author: The story of Hingham Church.
[Norwich, Goose, 1947]
Norris, Roger and Watson, Maureen: Historic Hassocks of Hingham.
[St Andrew's Church, Hingham, 1990]

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
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 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Hingham was in Forehoe Registration District.

Description and Travel

Hingham Town Pages: Description, history, churches, Lincoln connection, maps, pictures, etc.
Hingham Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Hingham Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Hingham Society History Group: Hingham, one hundred years captured in photographs.
[Hingham Society History Group, c1992]
Hingham Society History Group: Hingham, one hundred years captured in photographs.
[Hingham Society History Group, vol 2, 1998]
Norris, Roger: Hingham, a short guide.
[1988]
St Andrew's Church, Hingham: Parish and people, an exhibition illustrating aspects of parish life in former days, June 1980.
[Hingham, Friends of St Andrew's Church, Typescript, 1980]

Emigration and Immigration

The ancestor of Abraham Lincoln is thought to have been born in Hingham, Norfolk and, in the 1630s, people sailed from here and settled in Hingham Massachusetts.

Hingham Society History Group: Hingham, the American connection, from the earliest settlers to the present day.
[Hingham Society History Group, 1999]
Lonsdale, Mary E.: The heyday of their strength, the story of the emigrants from Hingham, Norfolk to the New World in the 17th century.
[Wymondham, George Reeve, 1979]
Hingham (Massachusetts) Town Government Pages: Town services, facilities, etc.
Hingham (Massachusetts) Historical Society: History, etc.
History of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893: This book, published in 1893, is being put online. It contains information on many aspects of Hingham, including history, genealogies, religion, etc.

Directories

Historical Geography

Hingham is in Forehoe Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Forehoe Hundred
Description of Forehoe Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

History of Hingham: (From "The Norfolk Village Book", Countryside Books and the Norfolk Federation of Women's Institutes, 1990)
Hingham Society History Group: Hingham during the Second World War.
[Hingham Society History Group, c1996]
Lonsdale, Mary E.: Hingham and St Andrew's Church.
[1971]
Lonsdale, Mary E.: Hingham in history.
[1970s]
Wallis, A.: Lincoln's Hingham, a concise guide to the history of the town and its many connections with the U.S.A.
[Hingham, Lincoln's Tea and Coffee Shoppe, 1990s]
Watt, George Gordon and Johnson, John Barham: History of Hingham, Norfolk, and its Church of St Andrew.
[East Dereham, Mason, 1921]

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Hingham Enclosure Act 1781.
An act for dividing, and inclosing commons and waste lands within the parish of Hingham, in the county of Norfolk.
[1781]

Maps

Hingham Heritage Map: With sketches. This is a link to an archived copy.
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Names, Personal

Lincoln: See Norfolk People and Families

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1776 Hingham became part of the Forehoe Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Wicklewood.

Voting Registers

Poll Books: 1734

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