Thompson, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Thompson, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
THOMPSON, a parish in Wayland district, Norfolk; 2½ miles SSE of Watton.

Thompson, St Martin is an ecclesiatical parish in the Diocese of Norwich and county of Norfolk.

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 156/ 1-5

A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and ...


 * Wayland Poor Law Union   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wayland/Wayland.shtml
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Wayland 1837-1974

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: Thompson on GenUKI