Hackford with Whitwell, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Hackford with Whitwell, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Eynsford
 * Poor Law Union = Aylsham
 * Registration District = Aylsham
 * PRbegin = 1559
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Sparham
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 * Chapelry =
 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Prerogative Court =
 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
HACKFORD (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk; comprising the principal part of the town of Reepham. The living is a discharged rectory, with the vicarage of Whitwell united.

Hackford with Whitwell St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Sparham deanery of the diocese of Norwich. Other places in the parish include: Whitwell.It should not be confised with Hackford, Norfolk All Saints in the Forehoe deanery.

The mediaeval church was restored in the 1880's by Diocesan architect Hubert Green.

The parish is sometimes referred to as Hackford cum Whitwell or Hackford juxta Reepham (Hackford near Reepham)

Entrres in the Family History catalogue are for Hackford-by-Reepham; the Norfolk Record Office deposited records are catalogued as Parish Records of Hackford with Whitwell.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Tinstaafl Baptism Project 1813 to 1880

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

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: Hackford (near Reepham) on GenUKI