Stanhoe, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk

Parish History
Stanhoe All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich. Other places in the parish include: Barwick.

Stanhoe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, only 6.4 miles (10.2 km) from the North Sea. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. During the 19th century, one of its parish priests was Philip Ward, husband of Lord Nelson's daughter Horatia. The nearest large village is Docking,_Norfolk. Also near Stanhoe are to be found remains of Creake Abbey, near the village of North_Creake,_Norfolk.

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
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Census records
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Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Docking_Poor_Law_Union,_Norfolk

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
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