North Runcton with Hardwicke and Setchey , Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
RUNCTON, NORTH (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Lynn containing, with the hamlet of Hardwick. The living is a rectory, with the living of Setchey The Hardwick that is a hamlet of North Runcton should not be confused with another place named Hardwick in Norfolk that is about 9 miles north east of Diss.

North Runcton All saints is an Ancient Parish in the deanery of Lynn in the diocese of Norwich and included Hardwicke and Setchey. Setchey is also known as Setch.

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 332/1-8

Setchey registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Freebridge Lynn Poor Law Union

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * Norfolk: North Runcton on GenUKI