Norwich St John Maddermarket, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Norwich St John Maddermarket is an Ancient parish in the city and Diocese of Norwich.

This church site may the site of the Holy Trinity church referred to in the Domesday book.

The present church dates from the fifteenth century and is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

The church became redundant and is now in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Churches Conservation Trust. It remains a deicated church and holds periodic services each year. Previously it housed the Norwich Greek Orthodox 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.

Church records
Norwich St John Maddermarket 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.

Poor Law Unions
Norwich Poor Law Union

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

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

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