Hillington, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

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

Parish History
HILLINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 7½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Lynn.

Hillington St Mary is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

Made from carrstone from the Sandringham Estate.

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.


 * Freebridge Lynn registration district

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

Norfolk Record Office no reference records remain with incumbent in parish

This parish's registers do not appear on FamilySearch as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Poor Law Unions
Freebridge Lynn     http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?FreebridgeLynn/FreebridgeLynn.shtml

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: Hillington on GenUKI