Southrepps, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
REPPS, SOUTH (St. James), a parish, in the union of Erpingham, hundred of North Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 4¾ miles (N. N. W.) from North Walsham. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Southrepps St James is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

St James is dedicated to St James of Compostella, and its structure features the scalloped shell motif characteristic of that saint. The church's Decorated style dates it from the 14th century but its most notable feature the 148 foot tower dates from around the middle of the 15th. The tower is a tribute to the wool industry which dominated this part of Norfolk at that time making for wealth and a spate of tower building characteric of this area.

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.

Registration District:


 * Erpingham 1837-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974
 * The Register Office, 18 Kings Arms Street, North Walsham, NR28 9JX. Tel/Fax: 01692 406220. E-mail: registration.nwalsham@norfolk.gov.uk

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

Deposited records for this parish are at the Norfolk Record Office reference PD 468 1/12.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/southrepps.htm for transcripts of Baptisms 1813-1880 Norfolk Baptisms Project

Poor Law Unions
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?Erpingham/Erpingham.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
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/southrepps-st-james/ for information about the parish

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-224706-church-of-st-james-southrepps British listed Buildings

http://www.cvma.ac.uk/publications/digital/norfolk/sites/southrepps/sources.html stained glass

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southrepps/southrepps.htm Norfolk Churches website