Rockland St Mary, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
ROCKLAND (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Henstead, E. division of Norfolk, 5½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Norwich.

Rockland St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Brooke 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.

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 256/1-10.

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Census records
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

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

Poor Law Unions
Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Henstead Poor Law Union

For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/rockland-st-mary/ for information about the parish

http://www.norwich.anglican.org/church?parish_id=427 Bramerton Group Benefice for churches in the parish

http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/rockland_st_mary.htm Literary Norfolk website

http://www.wherrymansway.net/heritagehighlights.html for references to Rockland St Mary wherry graveyard

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-227189-church-of-st-mary-rockland-st-mary British Listed buildings http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstmary/rocklandstmary.htm Norfolk Churches website