North Tuddenham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

History
TUDDENHAM, NORTH and WEST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Mitford, W. division of Norfolk, 4¼ miles (E. by S.) from East Dereham.

North Tuddenham St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

It was built in the 1400's and has undergone several renovations over the intervening centuries.

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

This parish's registers do not appear at FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held at the Family History Library. A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Poor Law Unions
Mitford & Launditch Poor Law Union

England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Records of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union1776-1948 Norfolk Record Office C/GP 14 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. Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Mitford 1837-1938
 * East Dereham 1939-1974

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Web Sites

 * Norfolk: North Tuddenham on GenUKI
 * Mattishall benefice]