Great Witchingham, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Great Witchingham, 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 = Eynsford
 * Poor Law Union = St Faith's
 * Registration District = St Faiths
 * PRbegin = 1539
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Sparham
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
WITCHINGHAM, GREAT (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Faith, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 2 miles (S.) from Reepham. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Great Witchingham "includes the village of Lenwade."

Great Witchingham, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, commonly referred to as The Assumption is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

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.

Registration district:


 * St Faith

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

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1715-1716 Image 1566
 * 1715-1716 Image 1567

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

Non-Conformist Church Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
St Faith    http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/st_faith_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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Great Witchingham on GenUKI