Norfolk: Rockland St Mary

Cemeteries

Census

Church Directories

• In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
  It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
• The parish church was dedicated to St Mary.
• Nearby Churches of all denominations.

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 St Mary was in Henstead Registration District.

Description and Travel

Directories

• 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
• 1850: Hunt's Directory of East Norfolk with Part of Suffolk
• 1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Historical Geography

Parish outline and location.

See Parish Map for Henstead Hundred

Description of Henstead Hundred

1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners

Statement of claims (49): Claxton and Rockland.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1808.
[1808]

Great Britain: Statute

Claxton and Rockland Saint Mary Inclosure Act, 1808.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Claxton and Rockland, in the county of Norfolk: 27th May 1808.
[1808]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps

Maps of the parish.

Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

• After 1834 Rockland St Mary became part of the Henstead Union, and the workhouse was at Swainsthorpe.

Voting Registers

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September 2015