Hackford, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Hackford, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Forehoe
 * Poor Law Union = Forehoe
 * Registration District = Forehoe
 * PRbegin = 1689; For more records see Deopham
 * BTbegin = 1698
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Hingham
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
HACKFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Forehoe, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Wymondham.

Hackford St Mary near Hingham is an ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

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.


 * Forehoe 1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1698-1699 Image 85
 * 1705-1706 Image 463
 * 1715-1716 Image 1274

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 128 /1-4

Poor Law Unions
Forehoe http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/forehoe_workhouse.htm

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

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

 * Norfolk: Hackford (near Wymondham) on GenUKI
 * Hackford on Norfolk churches website