Ingworth, Norfolk Genealogy

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

History
INGWORTH (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, l½ mile (N.) from Aylsham.

Ingworth St Lawrence is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

The conical thatched vestry was built from the stump of the original tower which collapsed in the early 1800's. The vestry dates from the 1850's remodelling of the church.

The village’s name comes from the old English for Inga’s enclosure. Ingworth has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085 where its, its population, land ownership and productive resources were extensively detailed In the survey Ingworth is recorded by the names of Ingewrda and Inghewurda. The main tenants being the Roger Bigot and Reynald Fitzlvo. The survey also list that there was ½ a mill. In the Domesday survey fractions, in this case ½ a mill, were used to indicate that the entry was on an estate that lay within more than one parish.

The parish of Ingworth is very small and covers an area spanning only 212 hectares. The parish has borders with three other parishes. To the north is the parish of Erpingham, Norfolk, to the south-west is the parish of  Blickling, Norfolkand the parish of  Aylsham, Norfolk is to the south-southeast. The boundary with the parish of Blickling is indicated by the course of the River Bure which also skirts the western edge of the village.

The village has no pub, shop or post office although there is a traditional-style phone box.

Ingworth is a village and a civil parish in the district of North Norfolk for local government purposes. the nearest town is Aylsham which is 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of the village. The village is 14.3 miles (23.0 km) north of Norwich, 7.3 miles (11.7 km) east of North Walsham and 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cromer on the north Norfolk coast.

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

This parish does not appear at FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held at the Family History Library.

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 521/ 1-6,49 A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Aylsham

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes I through N

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Ingworth on GenUKI