Riddlesworth, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Riddlesworth, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
RIDDLESWORTH (St. Peter), a parish, in the union and hundred of Guilt-Cross, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from East Harling. The living is a discharged rectory, with that of Gasthorpe united.

Riddlesworth St Peter is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich. The church was part of Riddlesworth Hall now Riddlesworth Hall School, famous for being the school attended in the 1970's by Diana Spencer before her father inherited his title and she became Princess of Wales.

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 to 1902
 * Thetford 1902-1938
 * Wayland 1939-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Genealogy
Tyler, Mary and Norman. Garboldisham - Again. History and family of Edward Tyler and an nee Parsons with the following surnames, Watling, Reeve, Dewing, Spurling, Warren, Hall, Barber, Frost. Edward Tyler was born 1705, and married An Parsons, and they lived in Tuddenham, SFK, and then his son moves over to Riddlesworth, Norfolk. Article in The Norfolk Ancestor, v.8, pt.3, (Sept 2011) pages 174-175. Family History Library Ref. 942.51 B2j (new series) vol. 8. pt. 3

Poor Law Unions
Guiltcross Poor Law Union later Thetford 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: Riddlesworth on GenUKI