Potter Heigham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HEIGHAM, POTTER (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the hundred of Happing, E. division of Norfolk, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Acle.

Potter Heigham St Nicholas is an Ancient parish in the Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

Church Records
Potter Heigham 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
For Tunstead and Happing see http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Tunstead 1837-1869
 * Smallburgh 1870-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974

Census
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/PotterHeigham.htm transcript of 1891 census

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Potter Heigham on GenUKI
 * Potter Heigham St Nicholas on A Church Near You
 * Potter Heigham on Norfolk Churches