Guestwick, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Guestwick, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions
| Guestwick, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Eynsford |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | Aylsham |
| Registration District | Aylsham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1600 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Sparham |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich |
| Location of Archive | |
| Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
GUESTWICK (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Foulsham. The Independents have a place of worship. [1]
Guestwick St Peter is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.
Guestwick is a village [ and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 19.6 miles (31.5 km) south-west of Cromer, 18.7 miles (30.1 km) north-west of Norwich and 131 miles (211 km) north-east of London. The village lies 10.2 miles west of the nearby town of Aylsham. The village lies far from any major roads.
For the purpose of local government the civil parish is within the Broadland district.
The tower is part of the old Saxon church on the site; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in the 15th century and has subsequently been renovated.
In the Domesday Book, Guestwick is mentioned but as the settlement of Guistthwaithe and is described as an area of pasture land used by the people of the nearby village of Guist. By the beginning of the 11th century it has been recorded that the settlement had its own church and so had become independent.
Non-Conformist Chapel History[edit | edit source]
To the north of the church can be found the Guestwick's Congregational Chapel at Guestwick which is one of the earliest in England. It was built in 1652 but has been altered in 1809 and again in 1840. The one time minister John Godwin was the father of the political philosopher William Godwin and the grandfather of Mary Godwin who became Mary Shelley who is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
The original timber framed chapel was replaced by the surviving brick built building which is now a private house.
See also Guestwick Chapel on Norfolk Churches =
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.
- Aylsham 1837-1938
- Norwich Outer 1939-1974
- Norwich
Church records[edit | edit source]
Church of England Records[edit | edit source]
Guestwick, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Guestwick, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1600-1812 | 1732-1811 | 1606-1811 | |||
| FS ATs | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | |||
| FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| NBI | 1813-1949 | |||||
Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch
Norfolk Record Office reference PD 5/ 1-4, 50
This parish's registers do not appear at FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held at the Family History Library.
A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:
| Content |
Film |
| Baptisms 1600-1610, 1624-1634, 1665-1737, 1754-1811 Marriages 1600-1610, 1624-1633, 1665-1737, 1754-1812 Burials 1600-1610, 1624-1633, 1665-1737, 1755-1811 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1526782 Item 2 |
Non-Conformist Church Records[edit | edit source]
Church records for Guestwick Congregational Church, 1694-1854 Microfilm copy of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, England.
Norfolk Record Office reference: FC 11/1. Guestwick Church Book, 1694-1854 With account of the congregation from 1652 and lists of members, record of births.
Baptisms and deaths, 1694-1854. FHL BRITISH Film 2299708 Item 2
Births, baptisms and burials at the Independent united congregations at Briston and Grestwick, Norfolk, 1786-1840
Microfilm of original records at the London Public Record Office, London.
RG-4 series no. 1344
see also
England Nonconformist Index for RG 4-8 (Record Groups 4-8)
England Nonconformist Index for RG 4-8 (Record Groups 4-8) - FamilySearch Historical Records
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.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
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]
- Norfolk: Guestwick on GenUKI
- Parish Info
- for listed building status
- Guestwick on Norfolk Churches
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 348-360. Date accessed: 25 March 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 25 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.
- ↑ 'National Burial Index - Norfolk Coverage,' findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 16 April 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Church of England Bishops' Transcripts Parish Search/Guestwick', FamilySearch Wiki, accessed 11 April 2016.
