Norfolk: Lakenham

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Lakenham is about 1 mile S. of Norwich.
It is a hamlet of the city, and more information may be found in the Norwich records.
See also Lakenheath in Suffolk.

Cemeteries

Not all memorials may be included, even when a transcription is marked as complete, for example when stones are not legible enough to be read or photographed.

Church of St John the Baptist: Transcriptions and photographs of memorials.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
Until 1857 it had been in the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist and All Saints.
The church at New Lakenham is dedicated to St Mark.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St John the Baptist: Description and pictures.
Church of St John the Baptist: Services, etc.
Church of St Mark: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mark: Services, etc.
Davis, Hugh Vipond Edward; and Tucker, Roy: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Saint Mark's Lakenham, 1844-1994.
[Norwich, Modern Press, 1994]
Church of St Alban: Description and pictures.
Burleigh, L.T.: St Alban's Lakenham: We build a church.
[1946]
Lakenham Old Chapel and Queen's Road Primitive Methodist Chapel: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1813-1880 at the Church of St John
Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1844-1880 at the Church of St Mark
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or 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), Lakenham was in Norwich Registration District.

Description and Travel

Lakenham Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Lakenham Bracondale Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Lakenham Bucks Post Mill: Description.
Lakenham Butter Hills Post Mill: Description.
Lakenham Peafield Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Lakenham is in the County of the City of Norwich.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for the County of the City of Norwich

History

Cumming, Graham: History of the Parish of Old Lakenham, Norwich.
[Ramsgate, 1959]
Pound, John Frederick: Lakenham: The Growth of a Suburb for the Poor.
[Norwich, 1990s]
Tillett, Edward A.: Norwich Scrapbooks: Norwich Hamlets: Vol.3: Catton, Sprowston, Thorpe, Trowse, Bracondale, and Lakenham.
Newspaper articles, photographs, postcards, extracts from Blomefield, etc.
[In Norwich Local Studies Library, 1900s]
Westgate, Pauline; Eastmead, Susan; and Bewley, Latham: History of the Parish of Old Lakenham, Norwich.
[1980s]

Land and Property

See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military History

Wilkinson, Barry T.: Lakenham Military Hospital, 1914-1919.
[2015]

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Lakenham became part of the Norwich Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Norwich.

Taxation

Pound, John Frederick: Norwich Hearth Tax 1671: South Conesford and Ber Street Wards, and the Hamlets of Heigham, Earlham, Lakenham, Trowse, Carrow, Eaton and Hellesdon.
[2004]

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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