Norfolk: Rockland All Saints with St Andrew
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Rockland All Saints with St Andrew is about 11 miles N.E. of Thetford.
Rockland is also the name of the deanery, so a reference to Rockland could
mean this parish, or this area of Norfolk.
Rockland All Saints with St Andrew and Rockland St Peter are adjoining
parishes, called The Rocklands.
Rockland St Mary is about 20 miles away.
See also Rockland St Mary
and Rockland St Peter.
Cemeteries
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Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Rockland, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- The parish churches are dedicated to All Saints and to St Andrew.
-
Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of All Saints
- Description and pictures.
- Church of All Saints
- Services, etc.
- Church of St Andrew
- Description and pictures.
Church Records
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
- Workhouse Registers
- Baptisms 1837-1866
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Rockland All Saints
with St Andrew was in
Wayland Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- The Rocklands
- Rockland All Saints with St Andrew, and Rockland St Peter.
Parish Council, news, organisations, history, pictures, etc.
- Leslie Cook; and Cynthia Cook
- Rocklands: Beginnings to 1988
Articles written by Leslie Cook for the Rocklander Parish Magazine,
about history, churches, family history, etc.
- Rockland All Saints Tower Mill
- Description and history.
- Rockland St Andrew Post Mill
- Description, history and map.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Rockland All Saints with St Andrew is in Shropham Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Shropham Hundred
- Description of Shropham Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Rockland Parishes Inclosure Act, 1812.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Rockland Saint
Andrew, Rockland All Saints, and Rockland Saint Peter, in the
county of Norfolk: 20th April 1812.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812]
[London, C. Baldwin, printer, 1812]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour
- Rockland All Saints World War 1.
- Rolls of Honour
- Rockland St Peter (WW1), Rockland All Saints (WW1), and The Rocklands (WW2).
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
After 1834 Rockland All Saints with St Andrew became part of the
Wayland Union, and the workhouse was in this parish.
- Wayland Union
- Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before
1834, etc.
- Wayland Union and Workhouse
- Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- Wayland Union and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
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 | 58 | 71 | 352 |
1811 | 55 | 55 |
221 All Saints |
| 25 | 25 |
129 St Andrew |
1821 | 58 | 58 |
267 All Saints |
| 29 | 29 |
143 St Andrew |
1831 | 51 | 66 |
322 All Saints |
| 24 | 29 |
136 St Andrew |
1841 | 67 | --- |
352 All Saints |
| 27 | --- |
124 St Andrew |
1851 | 75 | --- |
375 All Saints |
| 26 | --- |
115 St Andrew |
|
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
|
1861 | 77 | --- |
373 All Saints |
| 25 | --- |
111 St Andrew |
1871 | 70 | 70 |
317 All Saints |
| 26 | 26 |
105 St Andrew |
1881 | 68 | 73 |
324 All Saints |
| 22 | 23 |
98 St Andrew |
1891 | 87 | 87 | 394 |
1901 | 82 | 82 | 357 |
1911 | --- | 79 | 408 |
|
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.
- 1841 and 1851 Censuses
- "The Return for Rockland All Saints Parish includes 36 persons in
1841, and 75 in 1851, in the Wayland Union Workhouse. Rockland
All Saints, and Rockland St Andrew, are ecclesiastically united."
- 1861 Census
- "WAYLAND. The general decrease of population in the Attleborough
Subdistrict is mainly attributed to emigration."
- 1911 Census
- Out of the population of 408, 88 were in a large establishment or
institution. This was probably the workhouse.
Other population figures
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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November 2015