Honing, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
HONING, a parish in Tunstead district, Norfolk; on the Ant navigation, 3½ miles SE of North Walsham.

Honing St Peter &amp; St Paul is an Ancient parish in the Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. Honing has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085 where its, its population, land ownership and productive resources were extensively detailed In the survey Honing is recorded by the name of Haninga. The main tenants being the Robert Malet from the abbot of Holme who had held the land before and after 1066, Robert de Glanville from Robert Malet, and Ranulf brother of Ilger. The survey also list that there have always been 13 smallholders on this land. 2 ploughs in lordship; 3 men’s ploughs; meadow, 35 acres; woodland, 8 pigs; 1 mill: 2 cobs; 4 head of cattle; 12 pigs; 40 sheep; 30 goats. Also 8 freemen, 41 acres. Always 2 ploughs; meadow, 5 acres. Value of the whole 40s. It has 1 league in length and 10 furlongs in width; tax of 10d, whoever holds there

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.


 * Tunstead 1837-1869
 * Smallburgh 1870-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 68

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/honing.htm for images of the church and Baptism transcripts Norfolk Baptism Project

Census records
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/Honing.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
For Tunstead and Happing see http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

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
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

 * Norfolk: Honing on GenUKI
 * Honing St Peter St Paul on A Church Near You
 * Church of St Peter and St Paul - Honing on British Listed Buildings
 * Honing on Norfolk Churches website