Reepham with Kerdiston, Norfolk Genealogy

History [[Image:Reepham Churches.jpg|thumb|right]]
Reepham St Mary is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich and includes Kerdiston. Known as Reepham with Kerdiston it is the surviving church of 3 for Reepham.

The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and is listed as Refham meaning the bailiff's or reeve's manor from the Old English gerafa (bailiff) and ham (homestead). Reepham has had market town status since 1277; a sign to mark this has recently been erected.

The Church memorials record the Kerdiston family. The altar tomb to Sir William de Kerdiston is accompanied by a floor brass of Sir William and with his wife Cecily in brass on the chancel floor, pairs of 14th century figure brasses are rare.

Reepham has three churches on one sight two standing and the other ruined.

Reepham's three-in-one churchyard is overlooks the market place. Churches sharing churchyards is not that uncommon; one needs to consider the difference between a parish and its town or village; we also need to consider the medieval functions of a parish church, which were Roman Catholic churches.

In Reepham three parish boundaries occupy the same site but each served different areas The adjacent parishes were Hackford (now ruined) and Whitwell.

Church Records
Images of the parish register for this parish are available on Record Search

Poor Law Unions

 * Aylsham   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Aylsham/Aylsham.shtml
 * Norfolk_Poor_Law_Unions

Registration Districts

 * Aylsham 1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes O through S

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851