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Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen is about 6 miles S.S.W. of King's Lynn.
It is also called just Magdalen.
See also Wiggenhall St German, Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin, and Wiggenhall St Peter.

Census

Church Directories

Church History

Church of St Mary Magdalen
Picture of the church.
Methodist Church
Services, minister, etc.

Church Records

Marriages
These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Archdeacon's Transcripts
Marriages

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen was in Downham Registration District.

Gazetteers and Directories

Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen is in Freebridge Marshland hundred.

Land and Property

Owen, Dorothy M. and Owen, A.E.B.
The Records of a Commission of Sewers for Wiggenhall 1319-1324.
[Norfolk Record Society, vol.48, 1981]
Great Britain: Statute
Fitton in Wiggenhall Inclosure Act, 1807.
An act for inclosing lands of the manor of Fitton, in the parish of Wigginhall Saint Mary's, and other parishes therein mentioned, in the county of Norfolk.
[Independently printed edition, 1807]
Great Britain: Inclosure Commissioners
Statement of Claims: Fitton, 1808.
The manor of Fitton, with lands in the Wiggenhall parishes. 58 claims, drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure.
[1808]
Great Britain: Statute
Wiggenhall Drainage Act, 1757.
An act for draining and preserving certain marsh and fen lands and low grounds, in the parish of Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen, in the county of Norfolk.
[London, Thomas Baskett, 1757]
Great Britain: Statute
Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen Drainage Act, 1783.
[London, Charles Eyre and William Strahan, (1783) 1784]
Great Britain: Statute
Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen Drainage Act, 1833.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1833]
Great Britain: Statute
Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen Drainage Act, 1878.
[London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1878]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc


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October 2005