Walcot, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to Walcot, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Walcot, Norfolk | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Happing |
County | Norfolk, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Tunstead and Happing |
Registration District | Tunstead |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1698 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Waxham |
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]
WALCOTT (All Saints), a parish, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, hundred of Happing, E. division of Norfolk, 5¼ miles (E. by N.) from North Walsham. [1]
Walcot (or Walcott) All Saints is an Ancient parish in the Waxham 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.
- Tunstead 1837-1869
- Smallburgh 1870-1938
- North Walsham 1939-1974
Church records[edit | edit source]
Walcot, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Walcot, Norfolk Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1558-1837 | |||||
FREG | 1558-1904 | 1558-1902 | 1558-1900 | |||
FS ATs | 1726-1812 | 1726-1812 | 1726-1812 | |||
FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
FS PRs | Undefined | 1559-1904 | Undefined | 1559-1921 | Undefined | 1559-1903 |
IGI | 1559-1812 | 1558-1836 | ||||
JOIN | 1754-1836 | |||||
NTA | 1813-1904 | 1754-1902 |
Norfolk Record Office reference PD 517/1-5
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.
Genealogy From Periodicals
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Page, BA. Raymond A. The Page Family In Norfolk - The Page's of Walcot, Acle Ormesby. History and family tree of Henry Page of Walcot & Acle with the following surnames, Hexam, Watts, Goodwin, Warde, Bullocke, Short, Jacks, Bennet, Brown, Page, Goose, Worts, Greenacre and Appleton, with reference to South Walsham, St. Mary 1629, Acle, Walcot, Ormesby and Saxthorpe. Article has dates from 1422-1707, and is found in The Norfolk Ancestor, old series, vol. 2,pt.11 page 151-153, Family History Library Ref. 942.61 B2j vol. 2,pt11.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
For Tunstead and Happing see Smallburgh Workhouse
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: Walcott on GenUKI
- Walcott All Saints on A Church Near You
- Walcott on Norfolk Churches
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 432-436. Date accessed: 30 July 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ '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.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1538-1900', FamilySearch, accessed 17 March 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Norfolk, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 20 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 11 February 2014.
- ↑ Norfolk Transcription Archive, accessed 14 April 2014.