Witton (near North Walsham), Norfolk Genealogy

England  Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
WITTON (St. Margaret), a parish, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, hundred of Tunstead, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (E. by N.) from North Walsham.

Witton St Margaret is an Ancient parish in the Waxham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

There is no village of Witton as such but small group of properties around Witton bridge.

The church is a Saxon round towered church.

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.


 * Tunstead 1837-1869
 * Smallburgh 1870-1938
 * North Walsham 1939-1974

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

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/witton_by_nwalsham.htm for images of the church and transcript of Baptisms Norfolk Baptism Project

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 70/ 1-6

Census records
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/Witton.htm

Poor Law Unions
For Tunstead and Happing see    http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/smallburgh_workhouse.htm

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