Hargham, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Hargham, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Shropham
 * Poor Law Union = Wayland
 * Registration District = Wayland
 * PRbegin = 1561
 * BTbegin = 1691
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Rockland
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
HARGHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wayland, hundred of Shropham, W. division of Norfolk, 3½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Attleburgh.

Hargham All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the Rockland deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. The modern parish of Wilby with Hargham is part of the Quidenham group of parishes.

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.

Wayland 1837-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Census records
http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/documents.php?register_id=264&amp;district_id=24 transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Wayland Poor Law Union

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: Hargham on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * for Quidenham group of parishes
 * British History online
 * Hargham on Norfolk Churches