Thorpe Market, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Thorpe Market, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Thorpe Market, Norfolk | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Erpingham |
County | Norfolk, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Erpingham |
Registration District | Erpingham |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1538 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1698 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Repps |
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]
THORPE, MARKET (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Erpingham, hundred of North Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 4¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from North Walsham. [1] Thorpe Market St Margaret is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.
The present church replaced an earlier one in 1796. A plaque inside reads "This church was rebuilt, fitted up and finished by Harbord, Lord Suffield, at his own expence in the year 1796."
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.
Registration District:
- Erpingham 1837-1938
- North Walsham 1939-1974
- The Register Office, 18 Kings Arms Street, North Walsham, NR28 9JX.
Tel/Fax: 01692 406220. E-mail: registration.nwalsham@norfolk.gov.uk
Church records[edit | edit source]
Thorpe Market, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Thorpe Market, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1539-1739 | |||||
FREG | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
FS ATs | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
IGI | 1538-1739 | 1537-1642, 1654-1733 |
This parish's registers do not appear on FamilySearch as no microfilm for the parish is held. The Norfolk Record Office reference for parish registers is PD 49
A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:
Content |
Film |
Baptisms 1725-1812 Marriages 1725-1732, 1742-1811 Burials 1726-1811 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1526817 Item 4 |
Non-Conformist 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
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Erpingham http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/erpingham_workhouse.htm
Norfolk Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogys
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: Thorpe Market on GenUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 343-346. Date accessed: 16 July 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 27 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.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Norfolk, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 20 March 2014.