Hevingham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HEVINGHAM (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Aylsham.

Hevingham St Botolph is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich.

Hevingham is a Norfolk village and civil parish situated between the A140 road Norwich to Cromer road and the B1149 road Norwich to Holt road. It is 7 miles (11 km) from the city of Norwich and 4 miles (6.4 km) from the market town of Aylsham.

For local government purposes the civil parish is part of the Broadland District.

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
Hevingham 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
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Parish chest materials of Hevingham, 1724-1872 Norfolk Record Office nos.: PD403/10, 28.

Churchwardens' accounts, 1724-1872; Surveyors' accounts, 1823-1836. FHL BRITISH Film 2149732 Items 12 - 13

Parish chest records, 1809-1850 Norfolk Record Office no.: PD 403/11-19, 21-26

Town books, 1809-1834 (includes overseers' accounts &amp; poor rate assessments) FHL BRITISH Film 1702396 Items 14-19 Town books (cont.), 1834-1836 Overseers' accounts, 1836-1838 Poor rate books, 1838-1850 FHL BRITISH Film 1702397 Items 1-9 See also

England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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: Hevingham on GenUKI