Framingham Earl, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
FRAMINGHAM, EARL (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Henstead, E. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (S. E.) from Norwich.

Framingham Earl St Andrew is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

A Norman round tower church with 19th century renovation.

The writer W. G. (Winfried Georg) Maximilian Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu – 14 December 2001) is buried here and lived locally before his death after a fatal heart attack whilst driving in 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.


 * Henstead 1837-1938 some early registration may be "Humbleyard &amp; Henstead"
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 186/ 1-8, 60-62

This parish's registers do not appear on FamilySearch as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the Family History Library Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Poor Law Unions
Henstead http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Henstead/Henstead.shtml

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

 * Framingham Earl on GenUKI
 * for details of the Poringland group of churches and photographs
 * W.G. Sebald, German writer and academic - burial in Framingham Earl on Wikipedia
 * for photographs of the church