Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk Genealogy
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; Norfolk Parishes
Guide to Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Norwich Borough |
County | Norfolk, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Norwich |
Registration District | Norwich |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1538 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1600 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Norwich |
Diocese | Norwich |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich |
Location of Archive | |
Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Norwich St George Tombland is one of two mediæval churches dedicated to St George in Norwich, which may indicate a late foundation date. The ‘surname’ Tombland is from Old English words meaning ‘empty land or space’, referring to the site of the late Saxon market.
Norwich, parl. and mun. bor., city, co. town of Norfolk, and co. in itself, on river Wensum, 20 miles W. of Yarmouth and 114 NE. of London by rail, 7472 ac., pop. 87,842; 4 Banks, 9 newspapers. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday.[1]
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1734-1901 | 1538-1558, 1718-1901 | 1702-1945 | |||
FS PRs | Undefined | 1538-1901 | Undefined | 1538-1901 | Undefined | 1538-1945 |
IGI | 1538-1840 | 1538-1837 | ||||
JOIN | 1538-1837 |
Images of the parish register are available on Family Search Historical Records
Census Records[edit | edit source]
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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[edit | edit source]
Norwich Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogy
See also England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Norfolk Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogys
Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
- Norwich
- registration events post 1837 may be searched online at Free BMD
Maps[edit | edit source]
Websites[edit | edit source]
There is a comprehensive web site for the church giving more information: http://www.stgeorgetombland.churchnorfolk.com
Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp
http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church
References:[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Bartholomew. John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887. Date accessed: 27 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 27 February 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.