Fring, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
FRING, or Frenge (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Smithdon, W. division of Norfolk, 8 miles (N. W. by N.) from Rougham.

Fring All Saints is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

The church was built in 1300 – 1330 on lands owned by Norwich Priory from 1001, the Bishop of Norwich making provision for the monastic community by allowing the glebe land of the parish to profit the Priory. The original 14th C. bell still hangs in the bell tower and was restored in 1999.

Little change has been made to the structure since the Reformation other than the addition of a fine modern stained glass window in 1984.

Fring is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.The modern parish is in the Heacham and Rising Deanery and Lynn Archdeanery of the diocese of 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.

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 630

Parish registers for Fring Microfilm copy of original in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Microfilm copy of original in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812

Baptisms and burials 1725-1812 Marriages 1726-1812 FHL BRITISH Film 1526810 Item 1

Poor Law Unions
Docking Poor Law Union, Norfolk

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

Web sites

 * Fring on GenUKI