Neatishead, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
NEATESHEAD (St. Peter), a parish, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, hundred of Tunstead, E. division of Norfolk, 5¼ miles (E. by S.) from Coltishall. There are places of worship for Baptists and Primitive Methodists.

Neatishead St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

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.


 * Tunstead 1837-1869
 * Smallburgh 1870-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 251/1-7

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Neatishead Baptist Church
http://www.neatisheadbaptist.org.uk/welcome.htm for images of the church and history.

http://www.neatisheadbaptist.org.uk/gravestones.htm for listing of burials in the graveyard

Norfolk Nonconformist Chapel Survey undertaken by the Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Research Group Norwich Record Office reference SO 197/14/1-10, 900X8 Date 1988-1992 Description 1 Narborough Wesleyan Methodist 2 Neatishead Baptist, including memoranda of memorial inscriptions. 3 Neatishead Primitive Methodist. Demolished. No photographs. 4 Necton Baptist 5 Necton Wesleyan Methodist 6 Newton St Faith Primitive Methodist 7 Nordelph Wesleyan Methodist 8 Northwold Wesleyan Methodist 9 Northwold Primitive Methodist

Census Records
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/Neatishead.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
For Tunstead and Happing see http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

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

 * Norfolk: Neatishead on GenUKI
 * Neatishead St Peter on A Church Near You
 * for image of the church
 * Church of St Peter Neatishead on British Listed Buildings
 * Neatishead on Norfolk Churches