Norfolk: Walsoken
See Norfolk Parish Links
for more information about this parish.
What's New in Genuki Norfolk.
Walsoken is about 10 miles S.W. of King's Lynn.
See also Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
Cemeteries
- Fenland Family History Society
- Walsoken All Saints and the Parochial Cemetery.
Memorial Inscriptions.
- Rye, Walter
- Monumental Inscriptions in the Marshland Churches, Norfolk.
From notes made by Thomas Martin (1697-1771).
The parishes included are:
Terrington St Clement, Terrington St John,
Tilney All Saints, Tilney St Lawrence,
Walpole St Andrew, Walpole St Peter,
Walsoken, and West Walton.
[Norwich, printed for the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological
Society, 1886]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
Church History
- Church of All Saints
- Description, history, services, newsletter, pictures, etc.
- Church of All Saints
- Description and pictures.
- Church of All Saints
- Services, minister, picture, etc.
- Various authors
- The Fen and Marshland Churches: a series of photographs,
with short historical and architectural descriptive notes.
This includes Elm, Ely, Leverington, Thorney, Whittlesey and
Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, and Emneth, King's Lynn St Margaret
and St Nicholas, Outwell, Terrington St. Clement,
Terrington St. John, Tilney All Saints, Upwell, Walpole St Peter,
Walsoken and West Walton in Norfolk.
[Wisbech, Leach and Son, second series, 1880?]
Church Records
- Archdeacons' Transcripts
- Baptisms,
Marriages and
Burials.
- Fenland Family History Society
- Baptisms 1850-1966 and marriages 1868-1996, with images of the
original parish registers.
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
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), Walsoken was in
Wisbech Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Walsoken Smock Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Walsoken is in Freebridge Marshland hundred.
Land and Property
- Statement of Claims and Enclosure, 1796
- See Walpole St Peter
- Great Britain: Inclosure Commissioners
- Statement of Claims: Walsoken.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1820.
[1820]
- Great Britain: Statute
- Walsoken Inclosure Act, 1820.
An act for dividing, allotting and inclosing the commons and
waste lands in the parish of Walsoken, in the county of
Norfolk, 8th July 1820.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1820]
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish and nearby places.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour
- World Wars 1 and 2.
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
- After 1834 Walsoken became part of the
Wisbech Union,
and the workhouse was at
Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
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 | -- | -- | 705 |
1811 | 180 | 191 | 845 |
1821 | 256 | 266 | 1240 |
1831 | 432 | 434 | 1856 |
1841 | 587 | -- | 2562 |
1851 | 640 | -- | 2740 |
|
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
1861 | 665 | -- | 2683 |
1871 | 707 | 716 | 2911 |
1881 | 674 | 691 | 2697 |
1891 | 679 | 699 | 2771 |
1901 | 821 | 821 | 3250 |
1911 | -- | 962 | 3898 |
|
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.
- 1801, 1841, 1851 and 1861 Censuses
- The figures are from the population tables for Cambridgeshire.
- 1891, 1901 and 1911 Censuses
- Including Walsoken Hungate.
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and
the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web
pages. Please see the
Copyright Notice.
If you use this information in your research, please say that it is from Genuki
Norfolk.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
March 2010