Catfield, Norfolk Genealogy

England    Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
CATFIELD (All Saints), a parish, in the hundred of Happing, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Stalham. The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship. Catfield All Saints is an ancient parish in Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. Catfield has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085. In the great book Catfield is recorded by the names Cate(s)felda. The main landholders being Roger bigot and Count Alan.

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.


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

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 531/1-11

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

Poor Law Unions
For Tunstead and Happing see http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Hearth Tax
http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=138&amp;district_id=22&amp;document_type=720 Hearth Tax 1664

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

Web sites

 * Norfolk: Catfield on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * waterside group benefice
 * British History online
 * Mediaeval painting in the church The Stoning of St Stephen
 * Literary Norfolk
 * British Listed Buildings
 * Catfield on Norfolk Churches website