Brandon, Suffolk Genealogy

England   Suffolk     Parishes   Brandon

Parish History
Brandon is an Ancient parish mostly in the county of Suffolk and partly in Norfolk. There are multiple pictures of St. Peter in Brandon on Suffolk Churches as well as a detailed history of the church. The church was founded in 1653.

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.

Brandon was a parish which was partly in both counties of Norfolk and Suffolk until 1895 when administrative boundary changes placed it wholy in the county of Suffolk.


 * Thetford 1837-1895
 * Thetford 1895-1935 (county of Suffolk)
 * Newmarket 1935-

Church records

 * Church of England Parish Records begin in 1653
 * Church of England Bishop Transcripts begin in 1571

Copies of the orginal Parish Registers are available on film through Family History Centers and at the Family History Library. The film number is 993226

Non-Conformist
Genuki.org.uk provieds a list of these churches, click here.


 * Copies of the original  Wesleyan Parish Registers  are available on film through Family History Centers and at the Family History Library. The film number is 825399
 * Copies of the original church records for the Brandon Branch of the British Mission of the  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , organized 30 September 1849 are available on film through Family History Centers and at the Family History Library. The film number is 86984
 * For other church records, check the FHLC on the county level.

Census records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 474639.

To view these census images online, they are available through a number of websites for a fee or free.

■FindMyPast (fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■Ancestry.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com. ■The Genealogist.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■FreeCen is a free based UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Thetford/Thetford.shtml

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 Suffolk 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
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