Earsham, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes

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

Parish History
EARSHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Depwade, hundred of Earsham, E. division of Norfolk, 1 mile (S. W. by W.) from Bungay.

Earsham is an Ancient Parish mostly in Norfolk with a small part in Suffolk. A history and pictures of All Saints Parish is available on Norfolk Churches.

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:


 * Parish Registers are available on film through a Family History Center and at the Family History Library. The first film number is 2262381.
 * All Saints Church, record of graves are available online through the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections as Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, Earsham.

Monumental Inscriptions
England Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Census records
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The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Poor Law Unions
Depwade Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

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

 * Earsham on GenUKI