Pakefield, Suffolk Genealogy

England   Suffolk

Parish History
Contributor: Add a general overview of the history of this parish. It can be a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs.

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.

Church records
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

FamilySearch

https://www.familysearch.org/s/image/show#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/waypoint/652644

provides unindexed but printable and copyable "as filmed" records of christenings, marriages and burials (plus some banns) of the Pakefield parish records. These records are part of the "NORFOLK PARISH RECORD SET", which is a slightly incorrect description for what are actually "NORFOLK and some SUFFOLK PARISH RECORDS" held at NORWICH and as such contain a number of SUFFOLK parish records.

Census records
Contributor: Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Suffolk 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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.

The following link is to the LDS FamilySearch records, which include some suffolk ones

https://www.familysearch.org/s/image/show#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/collection/1416598/waypoints

The following link is to a web site set up by David Mantripp (1950-2003)

which includes a treasure trove of useful and interesting information and pictures on Pakefield people, buildings and records (church and civil) of value and interest to anyone having ancestors from Pakefield, Thank you David !

http://www.adsmt.btinternet.co.uk/pakefield/

The following link provides pictures of the Pakefield World War One memorial, together with a list of those named on it

http://www.adsmt.btinternet.co.uk/pakefield/memorial.htm