Sedgeford, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
SEDGEFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Smithdon, W. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (N. E.) from Snettisham.

Sedgeford St Mary is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.

The parish church, Sedgeford St. Mary, is one of 124 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk.

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. Part of the church, built of flint and stone, is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and it is known from archæological evidence that people have lived here from much earlier times. There are remains of Roman villas, pottery and a gold torc from the Iron Age and many earlier artefacts, like the Neolithic flint tools which are found in fields and gardens. Also it is crossed by two ancient roads - the prehistoric Icknield Way and the Roman-period the Peddars Way.

Sedgeford is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about 6 km south of the North Sea and 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Wash. It is approximately 90 km (56 mi) north east of Cambridge.

For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

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 601

Parish registers, 1560-1900. Microfilm copies of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich.

Baptisms 1560-1898 Marriages 1560-1687, 1695-1900 Burials 1560-1879 Banns 1754-1812, 1823-1900 FHL BRITISH Film 1657204 Items 18-28

Archdeacons transcripts, 1706-1812 Baptisms and burials 1706, 1770-1812 Marriages 1706, 1770-1811 FHL BRITISH Film 1526837 Item 5

Parish chest materials of Sedgeford Microreproduction of original records at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich.

Norfolk Record Office nos.: PD601/82, 90-91, 96, 100-101, 119, 122-126, 129, 131.

Rates, which are taxes, are determined by property valuation, therefore church and poor rates list owners and occupiers of properties. In some cases, they are listed alphabetically by surname.

Parish chest materials which are identified in these records as chiefly churchwardens' accounts and/or vestry minutes, can contain a variety of records including accounts, minutes, lists of parish officers, church and/or poor rates, payments made to the poor, lists of charities, donors to special collections, terriers (identification of parish boundaries and properties), description of church silver or plate, copies of wills and various other records pertaining to the history and life of the parish.

Churchwardens' accounts, etc., 1850-1862; list of overseers, 1840-1858, poor rates, 1840-1858; settlement certificates, 1760-1823; settlement examinations, 1762-1834; removal orders, 1785-1834; bastardy papers, 1793-1829. FHL BRITISH Film 2147146 Items 13 - 18 Removal order, 1827; poor rates, 1819-1820; apprenticeship indentures, 1793-1825; churchwardens' accounts etc., 1716-1866; church rates, 1819-1820; vestry minutes, 1830-1861. FHL BRITISH Film 2147147 Items 1 - 8

Non-Conformist Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Docking Poor Law Union, Norfolk

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

 * Sedgeford on GenUKI