Norfolk Parish Links

The links all have useful information about individual Norfolk parishes, and this page should be a useful resource for general parish information. The links will also be found under their expected topic headings in Genuki/Norfolk.

These links are in this separate web page - which is linked from every parish page - to give a common format, and so that it is not necessary to add direct links from the parish pages. Such links are often very long, with multiple parameters which tend to change, and there are other sites which are not arranged in such a way that links can be made directly to individual parishes. This collection of links lets you explore the sites yourselves, and you may find more information by exploring than by following a direct link.

As well as the links below, there are many more in the main Genuki Norfolk pages (and in the Genuki England pages) via the icons at the top of this page. You can also use the Contents & Search icon to search for names, places and topics.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
July 2008

Cemeteries

• Norfolk FHS List of Monumental Inscriptions
  This lists the parishes of Norfolk, and whether or not a transcription of the monumental inscriptions has been made. It does not contain the transcriptions themselves.
• NAOMI: National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions
  This currently contains inscriptions from burial grounds in Norfolk and Bedfordshire.
• NBI: National Burial Index: Norfolk Parishes and Dates
  This currently contains about 105,000 entries for Norfolk, mainly for the parishes around East Dereham.

Censuses

• Norfolk censuses may be seen on fiche and film at some libraries, family history centres, and record offices, or ordered at LDS centres.
• They are available on CD, for purchase from various suppliers.
• These census years are being transcribed for FreeCEN:
  FreeCEN Norfolk 1861 Coverage
  FreeCEN Norfolk 1871 Coverage
  FreeCEN Norfolk 1891 Coverage
  FreeCEN Cambridgeshire 1891 Coverage for some parishes in the west of Norfolk.
• The 1891 census has a Surname List for each parish.
  Many parishes already have a direct link. If not, please follow the link above and search for your parish.
• All census years have been indexed, transcribed, and put online for searching, often with images of the original documents. This is usually on a pay-to-view basis, and the census years covered vary depending on the supplier. The main ones, in alphabetical order are:
  • Ancestry
  • British Origins
  • Family Search
  • Findmypast.com
  • The Genealogist
  • GenesReunited
  • The National Archives
  • RootsUK
• For more information, availability and links see the Norfolk Censuses page.

Church Directories

• A Gazetteer of Norfolk Parishes
  This shows all the parishes of Norfolk, with their churches, and the dates at which their parish registers start. It also shows the deaneries and hundreds which they are in. The churches are mostly those of the Church of England.

Church History

• Norfolk Churches
  Pictures, descriptions and history of many churches.
• Norfolk Churches
  Pictures of many churches.

Church Records

• Norfolk Record Office: List of Parish Registers and Transcripts
  This lists the NRO's holdings of original registers, Archdeacons' and Bishop's transcripts, modern published and unpublished transcripts and indexes.
• Norfolk FHS: List of Parish Register Transcripts
  This lists the transcriptions made by members of the Norfolk FHS of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials.
• Society of Genealogists: List of Parish Registers and Transcripts
  The Society of Genealogists' Library holds copies of many Norfolk registers and transcriptions.
• FreeREG: Norfolk Baptism, Marriage and Burial Transcriptions
• Norfolk Baptism Project 1813 to 1880
• IGI Batch Numbers for Norfolk
  These batch numbers are needed in order to limit searches to a particular parish.

Description and Travel

• Picture Norfolk
  Norfolk Library and Information Service. Thousands of pictures of Norfolk.
• Norfolkcoast: Places in Norfolk
  This has short descriptions and pictures of many places, churches, etc (for all of Norfolk, not only the coast).
• Tour Norfolk: Places in Norfolk
  This has short descriptions and pictures of many places, churches, etc.
• Remember Norfolk
  ARCH - Archiving Rural Community History
  A project to create a network of community archiving groups in selected market towns in Norfolk and at the Bridewell in Norwich.
• Most villages have a village sign, often showing some aspect of the history of the village.
  - Village Signs of Norfolk
  - Village Signs of North Norfolk
• Old Photographs of Norfolk
  From Fenprint.
• Photographs of Norfolk
  From the Frith Collection.
• Norfolk Mills
  Information and pictures of Norfolk mills.
• See also Norfolk Description and Travel.

Directories

• Historical Directories
  Images and searches of many directories, put online by the University of Leicester.
• See also Norfolk Gazetteers and Directories.

Gazetteers

• See the Nearby places icon on the pages for the Individual Towns and Parishes
  This will give a list of the places within 5 miles, with distances, links to parishes, Ordnance Survey grid references, and links to maps.

Land and Property

• Norfolk Country Houses
  This is a list of Norfolk Country Houses, compiled from Burke and Savill's Guide to Country Houses; Volume III, East Anglia.

Maps

• Historical Maps of Norfolk Places (Old-Maps - Landmark Information Group)
  Online Ordnance Survey Maps, from 1846 to 1899, for individual towns and parishes.
  Search the parishes you want to see.
• Modern Maps (Multimap)
  Online Maps based on Ordnance Survey data.
  Search for the parishes you want to see.
• The Norfolk Record Office (NRO) publishes a map of Norfolk, showing all parishes. It was online as part of the Norfolk FHS parish register transcription project, and this is a link to an archived copy.
  Norfolk Record Office Map of Norfolk Parishes.
  You will need to search for your parish, though the image is in PDF format and can be enlarged for easier viewing.
• See also Norfolk Maps

Military Records

• Roll of Honour for Norfolk parishes
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Debt of Honour Register
  Search for details of members of Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars.
• See also Norfolk Military Records.

Occupations

• Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1900
  Incumbents
  Parish Clerks
  Postmasters and Postmistresses
  Sextons and Vergers
  Stationmasters
• Parish Clerks from other sources.
• Norfolk Public Houses
• See also Norfolk Occupations

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

• Norfolk Poor Law Unions
• The Workhouse (by Peter Higginbotham)
  Covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with history, locations, pictures, etc.
• The Workhouse (by Rossbret)
  Covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with history, locations, pictures, etc.

Probate Records

• If you are looking for a will or administration for a person from a specific parish, remember to look in the records of all of the courts that covered Norfolk, as people did not always use the court that covered their parish.
• The probate courts up to 1857 were:
    Dean and Chapter of Norwich
    Archdeaconry of Norfolk
    Archdeaconry of Norwich
    Norwich Consistory Court
    Peculiar of Castle Rising
    Peculiar of Great Cressingham
    Prerogative Court of Canterbury
• From 11th January 1858 probate was transferred to Norwich Probate District Registry.
• See also Norfolk Probate Records.