Croxton, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Croxton, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CROXTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Fulmodeston, union of Walsingham, hundred of Gallow, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Fakenham. See also Fulmodeston cum Croxton.

Croxton is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk with one of the 124 surviving round tower churches in that county. Croxton All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich. The Parish church of All Saints, The Street, Croxton has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building and is a well maintained Norman Round Tower church with extensive Victorian renovation.

Frances Blomfield An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 2 (1805), pp. 150-155. at British History Online

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.


 * Thetford 1837-1938
 * Wayland 1939-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Poor Law Unions
Thetford Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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: Croxton near Thetford on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * All Saints Church Croxton church website
 * Croxton for photos of church.