Edingthorpe, Norfolk Genealogy

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Edingthorpe, Norfolk
Type	England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Tunstead
County	Norfolk, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Tunstead and Happing
Registration District	Tunstead
Records begin
Parish registers: 1560
Bishop's Transcripts: 1691
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

Parish History

EDINGTHORPE (All Saints), a parish, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, hundred of Tunstead, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from North Walsham.

Edingthorpe All Saints is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

A Round tower church which is Saxon in origin with later medieval top to the tower and thatched roof.

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon visited the church when he was child on holiday in Norfolk. The location obviously made an impression on him for, later in life, when he came to write his autobiography The Old Century and Seven More Years (1938), he remembers the timelessness of the place:

'It had a very special dignity and simplicity, standing there on its low hill above the harvest fields, as though it were the faithful servant of the life around it.

All churches are alike in the eyes of our Maker, it now seemed to be saying; it evokes in me a sense of local England and the centuries behind it, - the harvests it has seen and the pathos of those humble folk who had toiled and died and had been "of this parish".

Sassoon used to stay at the Old Rectory each summer with his parents and his two bothers Michael and Hamo. On his return to Edingthorpe in 1937 he also remarked upon the village pond, but in less picturesque terms: 'There was the black stagnant pond with a few ducks on it - longer and narrower than it had been in my rememberings... It had always been an unprepossessing, unfishable pond.'

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.

• Tunstead 1837-1869
• Smallburgh 1870-1935
• Bacton 1936-1938
• North Walsham 1939-1974

Church records

Edingthorpe, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FREG = FreeREG - free

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

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

JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - (£)

NTA = Norfolk Transcription Archive - free

Edingthorpe, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FREG	1570-1812		1561-1812		1561-1812
FS ATs		1725-1812		1725-1812		1725-1812
FS BTs	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
JOIN			1727-1812
NTA	1725-1812		1727-1812		1727-1809

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 63/ 1-5, 25-27

This parish does not appear on FamilySearch 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 1725-1812 Marriages 1726-1812 Burials 1726-1809	FHL BRITISH Film 1526819 Item 14

Census records

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.

http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/Edingthorpe.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions

Tunstead and Happing Union became part of Smallburgh Union

http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

Norfolk Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogys

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

• Edingthorpe on GenUKI
• History and tour of Edingthorpe church.
• Pictures of village and church of Edingthorpe
• Edingthorpe Parish Info
• Church photos Norfolk Churches site

Family History Library

FreeREG - free