Rockland St Mary, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Rockland St Mary, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Rockland St Mary, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Henstead |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | Henstead |
| Registration District | Henstead |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1691 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Brooke |
| 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]
ROCKLAND (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Henstead, E. division of Norfolk, 5½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Norwich. [1]
Rockland St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Brooke Deanery 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]
Rockland St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Rockland St Mary Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS BTs | 1685-1941 | 1685-1941 | 1685-1941 | |||
| FS PRs | 1510-1997 | 1510-1997 | 1510-1997 | |||
| FS ATs | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
| ANC Transcripts | 1600-1935 | 1600-1935 | 1600-1935 | |||
| ANC 1 | 1535-1812 | 1535-1812 | 1535-1812 | |||
| ANC 2 | 1813-1915 | 1754-1940 | 1813-1990 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1917 | 1538-1933 | 1534-1992 | |||
| FMP BTs | 1579-1913 | 1583-1925 | 1583-1935 | |||
| TGEN | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.
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.
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/RocklandStMaryAndHolverstone.htm transcript of 1891 census
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Henstead/Henstead.shtml
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: Rockland St Mary on GenUKI
- Rockland St Mary on A Church Near You
- Bramerton Group Benefice for churches in the parish
- Rockland St Mary on Literary Norfolk
- Rockland St Mary wherry graveyard references
- Church of St Mary Rockland on British Listed buildings
- Rockland St Mary on Norfolk Churches
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 686-690. Date accessed: 13 May 2013.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Norfolk) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
