Little Barningham, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
BARNINGHAM, LITTLE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Aylsham. Little Barningham or Barningham Parva St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

A medieval building extensively restored in the nineteenth century especially in the 1870's.

There is a Jacobean box or pew which dates from 1640 and has the inscription: “FOR COUPLES JOYND IN WEDLOCK AND MY FRIENDS THAT STRANGER IS, THIS SEAT DID I INTEND BUILT AT THE COST AND CHARGE OF STEVEN CROSBEE. ALL YOU THAT DOE THIS SPACE PASS BY, AS YOU ARE NOWE, EVEN SO WAS I. REMEMBER DEATH FOR YOU MUST DYE AND AS I AM SOE SHALL YOU BE PREPARE THEREFORE TO FOLLOW ME”. The carving of a skeleton in a shroud at one corner of the box described by Pevsner was stolen in 1996 having been in place for 400 years, It has been replaced by a modern carving.

Little Barningham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 19 miles (31 km) north of Norwich, 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Cromer and 133 miles (214 km) north-east of London. For local government purposes Little Barningham is within the area covered by North Norfolk District Council.

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.


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

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 113/1-5

This parish does not appear at FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the Family History Library Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Census records
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/BarninghamParva.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

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

Web sites

 * Little Barningham on GenUKI
 * for information about the parish
 * St Andrew's Church, Little Barningham - Description &amp; Photos Seven Churches Website
 * photographs of the village
 * Norfolk Churches website