Thompson, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
THOMPSON, a parish in Wayland district, Norfolk; 2½ miles SSE of Watton.

Thompson, St Martin is an ecclesiatical parish in the Diocese of Norwich and county of Norfolk.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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. Norfolk Record Office reference PD 156/ 1-5

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1974 Wayland

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions

 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions
 * Peter Higginbotham's website: History of Workhouses
 * Wayland Poor Law Union
 * Wayland Workhouse

Probate Jurisdictions

 * Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z

Maps

 * England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Thompson GenUKI