Norwich St John Timberhill, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk



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

The church site was originally outside the Castle Bailey. The fourteenth century church lost its tower in a collapse in 1784 and was replaced first by a wooden bell frame and in 1877 by a stone turret.

The church fell into dilapidation until in the 1860's it was restored and internal resoration established a Victorian interior.

It was restored further by the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and serves again as a parish church with a congregation in the heart of the city and together with St Julian forms an inner city parish in modern 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

 * Norwich

Church records
This parish has been incorrectly way pointed as Norwich St Timberhill due to a typographical error which awaits engineering correction in future. The historical records collection on Familysearch contains microfilm conversionfrom the 1992 filming of Parish registers, 1559-1900 Norwich Record Office reference PD74/ 1-10

Census records
Contributor: Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Norwich 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

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

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