Garboldisham, Norfolk Genealogy

England  Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Guide to Garboldisham, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ecclesiastical Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Guiltcross
 * Poor Law Union = Guiltcross
 * Registration District = Guiltcross
 * PRbegin = 1609
 * BTbegin = 1698
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Rockland
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
GARBOLDISHAM (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Guilt-Cross, W. division of Norfolk, 4¼ miles (S. S. E.) from East Harling. Part of the tower of the ancient church of the merged parish of All Saints is remaining. There is a place of worship for Primitive Methodists.

Garboldisham has two churches, the ruin of Garboldisham All Saints whose tower collapsed into the nave in 1734. Nearby is the 15 th century church of Garboldisham St John the Baptist which is the parish church.

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.


 * Guiltcross 1837-1902
 * Thetford 1902-1938
 * Wayland 1939-1974

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 197/1-8

Poor Law Unions
Guiltcross Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Garboldisham on GenUKI