Fring, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Fring, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions
| Fring, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Smithdon |
| County | Norfolk, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Docking |
| Registration District | Docking |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1671 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1691 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Heacham |
| 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]
FRING, or Frenge (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Smithdon, W. division of Norfolk, 8 miles (N. W. by N.) from Rougham. [1]
Fring All Saints is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.
The church was built in 1300 – 1330 on lands owned by Norwich Priory from 1001, the Bishop of Norwich making provision for the monastic community by allowing the glebe land of the parish to profit the Priory.
The original 14th C. bell still hangs in the bell tower and was restored in 1999.
Little change has been made to the structure since the Reformation other than the addition of a fine modern stained glass window in 1984.
Fring is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.The modern parish is in the Heacham and Rising Deanery and Lynn Archdeanery of the diocese of Norwich.
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.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Fring parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FRING PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1700-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1671-1812 | 1671-1835 | 1696-1812 | |||
| FS ATs | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
| FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| FS PRs | Undefined | 1671-1812 | Undefined | 1671-1837 | Undefined | 1671-1812 |
| JOIN | 1700-1837 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| TGEN | 1700-1812 | 1700-1812 | 1700-1812 | |||
Norfolk Record Office reference PD 630
Parish registers for Fring Microfilm copy of original in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Microfilm copy of original in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812
Baptisms and burials 1725-1812 Marriages 1726-1812 FHL BRITISH Film 1526810 Item 1
Non-Conformist Church 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.
Poor Law Unions
[edit | edit source]
Docking Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogy
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]
- Fring on GenUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 263-266. Date accessed: 25 September 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1538-1900', FamilySearch, accessed 17 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 8 February 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Births Indexes: Guide to Parishes, n.d.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 27 September 2013.
