Banham, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Banham, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Banham, Norfolk | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Guiltcross |
County | Norfolk, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Guiltcross |
Registration District | Guiltcross |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1685 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Rockland |
Diocese | Norwich |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk |
Location of Archive | |
Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Banham St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich.
The 14th century church was heavily restored in the 19th century with the addition of several notable stained glass windows.
BANHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Guilt-Cross, W. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Attleborough. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
- Guiltcross
Church records[edit | edit source]
Banham, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
FS ATs = England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812 (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
FS BTs = England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
Banham, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
FS ATs | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
Norfolk Record Office reference PD 552/1-7
This parish does not appear on Record Search as no microfilm for the parish is held
A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue indicates that the following Archdeacon's transcripts are on film but these have not yet been converted to digital images for publication
Content |
Film |
Baptisms and burials 1725-1812 Marriages 1725-1811 | FHL BRITISH Film 1526817 Item 9 |
Non-Conformist Records[edit | edit source]
- 1613-1901 England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Guiltcross Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogy
See also England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Norfolk Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogys
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Norfolk Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Banham on GenUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 136-141. Date Accessed: 29 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 24 February 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812,' FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941', FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.