Hevingham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HEVINGHAM (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Aylsham.

Hevingham St Botolph is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich.

Hevingham is a Norfolk village and civil parish situated between the A140 road Norwich to Cromer road and the B1149 road Norwich to Holt road. It is 7 miles (11 km) from the city of Norwich and 4 miles (6.4 km) from the market town of Aylsham.

For local government purposes the civil parish is part of the Broadland District.

Find Neighboring Parishes
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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.


 * Norfolk Record Office

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

 * Aylsham Poor Law Union
 * England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Parish chest materials of Hevingham, 1724-1872 Norfolk Record Office nos.: PD403/10, 28.

Churchwardens' accounts, 1724-1872; Surveyors' accounts, 1823-1836. FHL BRITISH Film 2149732 Items 12 - 13

Parish chest records, 1809-1850 Norfolk Record Office no.: PD 403/11-19, 21-26

Town books, 1809-1834 (includes overseers' accounts &amp; poor rate assessments) FHL BRITISH Film 1702396 Items 14-19 Town books (cont.), 1834-1836 Overseers' accounts, 1836-1838 Poor rate books, 1838-1850 FHL BRITISH Film 1702397

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: Hevingham on GenUKI