Rockland St Mary, Norfolk Genealogy

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Rockland St Mary

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

Parish History

ROCKLAND (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Henstead, E. division of Norfolk, 5½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Norwich.

Rockland St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Brooke Deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

Resources

Civil Registration

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

Rockland St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS BTs = England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 (FamilySearch) - free

FS PRs = England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997 (FamilySearch) - free

FS ATs = England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812 (FamilySearch) - free

FS = FamilySearch - free

FREG = FreeREG - free

ANC Transcripts = Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC 1 = Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC 2 = Norfolk, England, Church of England Records (Ancestry) - ($)

FMP = Norfolk Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP BTs = Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

TGEN = Norfolk Parish Records (TheGenealogist) - ($)

JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - ($)

BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Rockland St Mary Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	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

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

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Henstead Poor Law Union

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

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

• 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

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free