Eaton, Norfolk Genealogy

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

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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Norwich Borough
 * Poor Law Union = Norwich
 * Registration District = Norwich
 * PRbegin = 1568
 * BTbegin = 1706
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
 * Archdeaconry =
 * Archdeaconries =
 * Rural Deanery = Norwich
 * Parish =
 * Peculiar =
 * Chapelry =
 * Probate Court = Court of the Peculiar of the Dean &amp; Chapter of Norwich
 * Archdeaconry Court =
 * Bishops Court =
 * Prerogative Court =
 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
EATON-ST. ANDREW, a parish in Norwich district, Norfolk; within Norwich city.

Eaton St Andrew and Christchurch is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

The medieval thatched church is the only thatched church in Norwich and has a dramatic modern extension added to it.

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.


 * Norwich

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 72/ 1-11, 13-14

Archdeacons transcripts, 1706-1812

Eaton Christ Church Marriages, 1813-1834

Poor Law Unions
Norwich 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

 * Eaton on GenUKI
 * Eaton Church and Parish Info
 * Map View of Eaton Church
 * photos of church and extension on Norfolk Churches