Pentney, Norfolk Genealogy

England    Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
PENTNEY (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 8 miles (N. W. by W.) from Swaffham.

Pentney St Mary Magdalene is an Ancient Parish in the Lynn deanery 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Images of the parish register for this parish are available in historic records (formerly Record Search) Norfolk Record Office reference PD 555/1-7, 32

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=471&amp;district_id=9&amp;document_type=150 Baptism transcript

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=471&amp;district_id=9&amp;document_type=150 Banns transcript

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=471&amp;district_id=9&amp;document_type=250 Marriages transcript

http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=471&amp;district_id=9&amp;document_type=300 Burials transcript

Parish register transcripts Norfolk Transcription archive

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

Poor Law Unions
Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Freebridge Lynn Poor Law Union

For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?FreebridgeLynn/FreebridgeLynn.shtml

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
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