Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Norwich St George Tombland, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Norwich St George Tombland is one of two mediæval churches dedicated to St George in Norwich, which may indicate a late foundation date. The ‘surname’ Tombland is from Old English words meaning ‘empty land or space’, referring to the site of the late Saxon market.

Norwich, parl. and mun. bor., city, co. town of Norfolk, and co. in itself, on river Wensum, 20 miles W. of Yarmouth and 114 NE. of London by rail, 7472 ac., pop. 87,842; 4 Banks, 9 newspapers. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday.

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

Images of the parish register are available on Family Search Historical Records

Non-Conformist Records

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

Census Records
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Poor Law Unions
Norwich Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Norwich
 * registration events post 1837 may be searched online at Free BMD

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites
There is a comprehensive web site for the church giving more information: http://www.stgeorgetombland.churchnorfolk.com

Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp

http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church