Brandon, Suffolk Genealogy

England   Suffolk     Parishes   Brandon

Parish History
Brandon is an Ancient parish mostly in the county of Suffolk and partly in Norfolk. There are multiple pictures of St. Peter in Brandon on Suffolk Churches as well as a detailed history of the church. The church was founded in 1653.

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.

Brandon was a parish which was partly in both counties of Norfolk and Suffolk until 1895 when administrative boundary changes placed it wholy in the county of Suffolk.


 * Thetford 1837-1895
 * Thetford 1895-1935 (county of Suffolk)
 * Newmarket 1935-

Church records

 * Church of England Parish Records begin in 1653
 * Church of England Bishop Transcripts begin in 1571

Copies of the orginal Parish Registers are available on film through FamilySearch Centres and at the Family History Library. The film number is 993226

Non-Conformist
Genuki.org.uk provieds a list of these churches, click here.


 * Copies of the original  Wesleyan Parish Registers  are available on film through FamilySearch Centres and at the Family History Library. The film number is 825399
 * Copies of the original church records for the Brandon Branch of the British Mission of the  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , organized 30 September 1849 are available on film through FamilySearch Centres and at the Family History Library. The film number is 86984
 * For other church records, check the FHLC on the county level.

Census records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a FamilySearch Centre or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 474639.

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal: Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.

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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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

■FreeCen is a free based UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Poor Law Unions
Thetford Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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 Suffolk 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
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