Norfolk: Reymerston

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Reymerston is about 6 miles N.W. of Wymondham.
The name may also be spelled Reymerstone.

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: Church of St Peter, Reymerston: Memorial Inscriptions.
(Dates approx. 1780-1985, with a few earlier ones from within the church).
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 1999]

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Peter: Description and pictures.
Church of St Peter: Services, etc.
Reymerston Ringers: Church, bells, pictures, etc.

Church Records

Campling, Arthur: Index of Baptisms, Reymerston, 1564-1811.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Marriages, Reymerston, 1562-1811.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Campling, Arthur: Index of Burials, Reymerston, 1573-1812.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Archdeacons' Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
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), Reymerston was in Mitford and Launditch Registration District.

Description and Travel

Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton Parish Council: Councillors, etc.

Directories

Historical Geography

Reymerston is in Mitford hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Reymerston and other parishes Inclosure Act, 1796.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing certain commons and waste lands, and open fields, within the several parishes of Reymerstone, Letton, Cranworth and Southbergh alias Barrow [Southburgh], in the county of Norfolk.
[Independently printed edition, 1796]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Mitford and Launditch Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World War 1.
War Memorial: World War 2.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Reymerston became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was at Gressenhall.

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	31	36	200
1811	36	42	242
1821	40	55	285
1831	57	57	299
1841	60	--	274
1851	67	--	340

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	69	--	321
1871	70	74	320
1881	73	75	303
1891	67	68	287
1901	63	64	261
1911	--	68	259

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: MITFORD. "The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the Mitford District is attributed to the migration of labourers to towns, and to Yorkshire and Northumberland, &c."
1901 Census: "Including North Green."

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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