Norfolk Research Resources

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Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by the Wash. The city of Norwich is the county town of Norfolk which is the fifth largest ceremonial county in England.[1]

There are seven districts in Norfolk, which are Norwich, South Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Broadland, King's Lynn & West Norfolk and Breckland.

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Norfolk Research Resources

• The Norfolk Record Office has an on-line catalogue and copies of records can be ordered for a fee.
• Norfolk Baptism Project - Tinstaafl - an amazing record of births by parish.
• A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 by William Page. A part-volume detailing the history of the religious houses of the county, including the cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity at Norwich, and the pilgrimage site of Walsingham.
• An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (wikitree space) ("Containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of monasteries ... and other religious buildings ...") by Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin, published in 1806
• The History of Norfolk: From Original Records and Other Authorities Preserved in Public and Private Collections, Robert Hindry Mason, 1885, Part V: Acle to Barford
• A general history of the county of Norfolk..., John Chambers, 1829, vol1, vol2, vol3
• Norfolk Annals: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteenth Century By Charles Mackie
• The Church Heraldry of Norfolk by Rev. Edmund Farrer, published in 1887.
• A List of Monumental Brasses Remaining in the County of Norfolk by Rev. Edmund Farrer, published in 1890.
• The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley in the County of Norfolk collected by George Alfred Carthew, published 1877-1879.
• The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563
• The visitations of Norfolk in 1563, 1589 and 1613 were combined into a single manuscript, Harl. MS. 1552, about 1620 and this was the basis for the version edited by Walter Rye in 1891. There is no way to tell just from this book which visitation was the source for any particular pedigree or fact within a pedigree. The 1563 visitation was separately published, see the previous entry; the 1589 visitation exists in various manuscripts, e.g. Harl. MS. 2230, but has not been separately published.
• The Visitation of Norfolk AD 1664, Sir Edward Bysshe, vol2 (M-Z), 1934.
• See also: Space:Visitations_Cross_reference_by_County#Norfolk
• Rye, Walter. A list of coat armour used in Norfolk before the date of the first herald's visitation of 1563. Roberts & Co., Norwich: 1917 archive.org
• Norfolk Lists from the Reformation to the Present Time ("Comprising Lists of Lord Lieutenants, Baronets, High Sheriffs, and Members of Parliament, of the County of Norfolk; Bishops, Deans, Chancellors, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, Members of Parliament, Mayors, Sheriffs, Recorders, & Stewards, of the City of Norwich; Members of Parliament and Mayors of the Boroughs of Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, and Castle Rising; Also a List of Persons Connected with the County, of Whom Engraved Portraits Have Been Published, and a Descriptive List of Tradesmens' Tokens & Provincial Halfpennies Issued in the County of Norfolk") by William Ewing.
• Phillimore's Marriage Registers Extracts from the parish registers published by Phillimore and Co. There are 12 volumes covering 127 parishes, so by no means an extensive collection.
• The Paston Letters are one of the largest collections of private correspondence from 15th century England. The Pastons had family and business relationships with just about every other landholding family in Norfolk. James Gairdner published six volumes containing over 1000 letters in 1904 and these are available at Project Gutenberg. The British Library has made available digitised images of parts of its collection of the Letters.
• The Voting Registers for Norfolk from 1734 to 1865 have been transcribed and are available at genuki.org.uk.
• Pedigrees of the families of Suffolk, 43 volumes of manuscript notes compiled by local antiquarian David Elisha Davy, also covers numerous families in Norfolk.
• The Intoxicants and Early Modernity research project has a lot of records from Chester and Norwich and has over 23,000 people mentioned.
• Tingey, J.C. "A Calendar of Deeds Enrolled within the County of Norfolk". Norfolk Archaeology, Norwich
• Selby, Walford D. "Norfolk Records, Being a Collection of Record-References Derived from the Original MS. Indexes". Public Record Office, London: 1886 familysearch
• Dew, Walton N.; Rye, Walter "The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Holt". A.H. Goose and Co., Norwich: 1885 familysearch
• Space:Early Norfolk marriage licences from the Act books of the Archdeaconry Court of Norfolk and the Consistory Court
• Norfolk Families, vol1, Walter Rye, 1911

Norfolk Archaeology

Norfolk Archaeology, subtitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk was published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society.

Many volumes are available online:

• Vol I, 1847 archive archive archive archive
• Vol II, 1849 archive archive archive familysearch
• Vol III, 1852 archive archive
• Vol IV, 1855 archive archive archive
• Vol V, 1859 archive
• Vol VI, 1864 archive archive
• Vol VII, 1872 archive archive archive archive
• Vol VIII, 1878 archive
• Vol VIII, 1879 (reprint) archive
• Vol IX, 1884 archive archive archive
• Vol X, 1888 archive
• Vol XI, 1892 archive
• Vol XII, 1895 archive
• Vol XIII, 1898 archive
• Vol XIV, 1901 archive
• Vol XV, 1904 archive
• Vol XVI, 1907 archive archive
• Vol XVII, 1910 archive
• Vol XVIII - XXII, XXIV, XXX, XXXII, XXXVII, XLI (1912-1933) Limited view hathitrust

• Index to Vol I to X and to Vol XI to XX, 1891 archive

Monumental inscriptions in the county of Norfolk

Written by Walter Rye, this series was published in five volumes. Note maps showing which parishes are in which hundred are available here: http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/norfolk/histgeog/hundreds/parishmaps/

• The monumental inscriptions in the hundred of Holt, collected by W.N. Dew, edited by Walter Rye, published 1885
• The monumental inscriptions in the hundred of Tunstead, Walter Rye, published 1891.
• Monumental Inscriptions in the Marshland Churches, Norfolk, From notes made by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), 1886 (not available online)
• The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing, in the county of Norfolk, 1886 (not available online)
• The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of North Erpingham; included in Some Rough Materials for a History of the Hundred of North Erpingham in the County of Norfolk, 1883