Eccles, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Eccles, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Eccles, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Shropham |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | Guiltcross |
| Registration District | Guiltcross |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1691 | |
| 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 | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
ECCLES, a parish in Guiltcross district Norfolk; adjacent to the Norfolk railway, at Eccles-Road station 2½ miles NE of Harling. [1]
Eccles St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norfolk.
A 14th century round tower church the village name Eccles comes from the latin for church Ecclesia.
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 1837-1902
- Wayland 1902-1956
- Quidenham post 1956
Church records[edit | edit source]
Eccles, 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] |
| Eccles, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 95/ 1-5
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 1725-1812 Marriages 1726-1811 Burials 1725-1811 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1526817 Item 16 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) Date accessed: 02nd April 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 22 February 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812,' FamilySearch, accessed 22 March 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941', FamilySearch, accessed 22 March 2014.
