Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
SAXLINGHAM-NETHERGATE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Henstead, E. division of Norfolk, 3½ miles (N. E.) from Stratton St. Mary. There is a place of worship forBaptists.

Also includes or is known as Foxhole and Saxlingham Thorpe.

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
Saxlingham Nethergate 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
Henstead Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Henstead/Henstead.shtml

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

 * Saxlingham Nethergate on GenUKI
 * Norfolk: Saxlingham Thorpe on GenUKI