East Tuddenham, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes



Parish History
TUDDENHAM, EAST (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Mitford, W. division of Norfolk, 8½ miles (W. N. W.) from Norwich. There is a place of worship for Primitive Methodists.

East Tuddenham All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the Hingham Deanery of the Diocese of Norwich and the Mattishall Benefice.

Census Records
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Civil Registration Districts
Post 1837 registration events may be searched online at Free BMD


 * Mitford 1837-1938
 * East Dereham 1939-1974

Church Records
Images of the parish registers may be viewed online in Historic Records (formerly Record Search) Norfolk Record Office reference PD 447

Poor Law Unions
Mitford &amp;Launditch http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/mitford_and_launditch_workhouse.htm

Records of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union1776-1948 Norfolk Record Office C/GP 14 Extent 137 pieces The following parishes comprised the 1836 union: Bawdeswell, Beeston, Beetley, Billingford, East Bilney, Bintry, Brisley, Bylaugh, Colkirk, Cranworth, East Dereham, Great Dunham, Little Dunham, North Elmham, Elsing, Foxley, Great Fransham, Little Fransham, Garvestone, Gately, Gressenhall, Guist, Hardingham, Hockering, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempstone, Letton, East Lexham, West Lexham, Litcham, Longham, Lyng, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, Mileham, Oxwick with Pattesley, Reymerstone, Rougham, Scarning, Shipdham, Southburgh, Sparham, Stanfield, Swanton Morley, Thuxton, Tittleshall, East Tuddenham, North Tuddenham, Twyford, Weasenham All Saints, Weasenham St Peter, Wellingham, Wendling, Westfield, Whinburgh, Whissonsett, Wood Rising, Worthing, Yaxham. All fifty parishes of Mitford and Launditch Hundreds were incorporated in 1775 under the terms of An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, 15 Geo. III, cap. 59. In 1801 the parish of East Dereham separated from the Incorporation, but in 1836 all fifty original parishes plus ten from Eynesford Hundred joined together in a new union. The House of Industry belonging to the old incorporation, built at Gressenhall in 1776-1777, was repaired and altered in 1836 to become the new Union Workhouse. Mitford and Launditch Union Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 10 in 1930.

Web Links
http://www.allsaintsmattishall.org.uk/benefice.html Mattishall Benefice website

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl link to Norfolk Baptisms Project

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/easttuddenham/easttuddenham.htm Norfolk Churches website