Foulsham, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Foulsham, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Eynsford
 * Poor Law Union = Aylsham
 * Registration District = Aylsham
 * PRbegin = 1558
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
 * Archdeaconry =
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 * Rural Deanery = Sparham
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
FOULSHAM (Holy Innocents), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 18 miles (N. W.) from Norwich. The Baptists have a place of worship.

Foulsham Holy Innocents is an Ancient Parish in the Sparham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

The village's name derives from 'sham,' or home, and 'foul,' from the bird. Foulsham has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085. In the great book Foulsham is recorded by the name Folsam and Folsham it is said to be in the ownership of the King before and after 1066 and Walter Gifford from the king and in the custody of Godric The survey also notes two churches, a mill, twelve cattle, four hundred pigs, fifty Goats and 13 sesters of Honey.

The village gave its name to a family of Puritan dissidents who fled England for the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, (and later Exeter, New Hampshire) and whose spelling of the name was slightly changed to Folsom. Today these American descendants of Foulsham have given rise to Folsom, California, Folsom Street in San Francisco, Folsom Prison - all named for California pioneer and New Hampshire native Joseph Libbey Folsom - as well as General Nathaniel Folsom, who represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress.

Foulsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The Village is 19.6 miles (31.5 km) miles west south west of Cromer, 17.7 miles (28.5 km)miles north west of Norwich and 119 miles (192 km) miles north east of London. For the purposes of local government the civil parish it is within the Broadland District.

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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 Free BMD.


 * Mitford 1837-1938
 * East Dereham 1939-1974

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
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

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-Conformist Churches (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)

Genealogy From Periodicals
Craske, Donald. The Craskes of Foulsham, Weybourne, Holt Etc. Family history of Thomas Craske and Susannah surname unknown, of Foulsham. One of the descendants moves to Liskeard, Cornwall, and then to Blean/Margate, Kent and then some of their children moved to India, and South Africa. Surnames mentioned, Knight, Ireland, Pegg, Funnell, Garbutt, Harvard, Noble, French, Welton with a photo of one of the Craske Chemist shops. Article covers years 1798-1923, and is to be found in The Norfolk Ancestor, vol. 7 pt. 7 pages 228-229, December, 1994, FamilySearch Library Ref. 942.61 B2j v. 7. n6-13.

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions



Parish chest materials of Foulsham, 1640-1829 Microreproduction of original records at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich. Norfolk Record Office nos.: PD674/15, 47-57.

Register containing various "receipts" - recipes, constables' accounts and rates, 1728-1740, and baptisms, marriages and burials, 1746-1772; Overseers' rates and accounts, 1640-1723, 1817-1824; Removal orders, 1713-1829; Settlement certificates, 1716-1768. FS Library BRITISH Film 2149768 Items 7 - 12 Settlement certificates (cont'd.), 1768-1827; Apprenticeship indentures, 1717-1731, 1717-1813; Settlement examinations, 1720-1823; Bastardy examination, 1734; Bastardy bonds, 1766-1825; Settlement papers etc. of Robert and Ann Vinyard, 1781-1786. FS Library BRITISH Film 2149769 Items 1 - 7 Workhouse accounts, 1819-1835 Microfilm copy of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, England. Norfolk Record Office no.: Q 191 D 30/6/81

Workhouse accounts, 1819-1835 FS Library BRITISH Film 1702371 Item 12

See also

England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

Websites

 * Foulsham on GenUKI
 * Church Info
 * Sparham deanery website
 * British Listed buildings
 * Foulsham Mill
 * Village website
 * Norfolk Churches website