Potter Heigham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HEIGHAM, POTTER (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the hundred of Happing, E. division of Norfolk, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Acle.

Potter Heigham St Nicholas is an Ancient parish in the Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

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Civil Registration
Norfolk Record Office reference PD 525/ 1-8

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1869 Tunstead
 * 1870-1938 Smallburgh
 * 1939-1974 North Walsham

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions

 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions
 * Peter Higginbotham's website: History of Workhouses
 * Tunstead and Happing

Probate Records

 * Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes O through S

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Potter Heigham on GenUKI
 * Potter Heigham St Nicholas on A Church Near You
 * Potter Heigham on Norfolk Churches