Brinton, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRINTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the hundred of Holt, W. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Holt. Brinton St Andrew is an Ancient parish in the Holt deanery of the diocese of Norwich.

In 1759 the Brinton and Thornage parishes were consolidated.

In the early 1800s a milestone was erected stating the mileage to Holt and Dereham. This has since been restored and can be seen today on on the B1110 Holt to Dereham road where it is milestone 14 of 15.

In 1838 the Wesleyan Chapel was built.

In 1845 Lord Hastings was lord of the manor, but John Brereton, Esq. had large land holdings in Brinton.

By 1883 the Melton Constable Railway Station was within 1 mile of Brinton. Presently (2013) their is no public bus service to Brinton. The nearest bus stop being a pleasant walk to Sharrington.

The village of Brinton and some of its houses were once used as a backdrop for the BBC television series Dangerfield.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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.
 * Norfolk Record Office

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1869 Erpingham
 * 1869-1938 Walsingham
 * 1939-1974 Fakenham

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
 * Tinstaafl Baptism Project 1813 to 1880

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Created in 1782, the Brinton Gilbert Union (also called Brinton Incorportation) survived until 1869 when it went was incorporated into Walsingham]
 * Brinton
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions
 * Walsingham

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

 * Brinton on GenUKI