Norwich St John Timberhill, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk

Parish History
Norwich St John the Baptist Timberhill is an Ancient parish in the city and Diocese of Norwich.

The church site was originally outside the Castle Bailey. The fourteenth century church lost its tower in a collapse in 1784 and was replaced first by a wooden bell frame and in 1877 by a stone turret.

The church fell into dilapidation until in the 1860's it was restored and internal resoration established a Victorian interior.

It was restored further by the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and serves again as a parish church with a congregation in the heart of the city and together with St Julian forms an inner city parish in modern 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.

Registration District

 * Norwich

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

Known Issues

This parish has been incorrectly way pointed as Norwich St Timberhill due to a typographical error which awaits engineering correction in future. The historical records collection on Familysearch contains microfilm conversion from the 1992 filming of Parish registers, 1559-1900 Norwich Record Office reference PD74/ 1-10

Census records
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp

http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church