New Buckenham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUCKENHAM, NEW (St. Martin), a town and parish, in the union of Guiltcross, hundred of Shropham, W. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Attleburgh, and 96 (N. E. by N.) from Londo. There are places of worship for Methodists.

New Buckenham St Martin is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich. This parish should not be confused with Buckenham, Norfolk or Old Buckenham, Norfolk

A late mediaeval church with a font dated February 1st 1619

Resources 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.

Church records
New Buckenham 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.

Poor Law Unions
Guiltcross Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Probate records
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes B

Maps and Gazetteers
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England Jurisdictions 1851

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