Bintree, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bintree St Swithin is an Ancient parish in the Sparham deanery of the diocese of Norwich.

BINTREE (St. Swithin), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Guist. It is also known as Bingtry.

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.


 * Mitford 1837-1938
 * East Dereham 1939-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.Bintree

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1698 Image 25
 * 1715-1716 Image 1196
 * 1715-1716 Image 1208
 * 1722-1723 Image 39
 * 1733-1734 Image 6

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 276/ 66-67

FS "England, Norfolk, Parish Register" -&gt; Bintree -&gt; Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1686-1805. This online image collection as 33 images. See image 3 for scope.

Img 3 Chr 1686

Img 10 Bapt 1722-1730

Img 12 Bapt 1742-1748

Img 13 Bapt 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756

Img 14 Bapt 1756-1758 Marr late 1600s, 1700

Img 15 &amp; 16 Mar 1702, 1704, 1705, 1706, 1725, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1729, 1730

Img 17 &amp; 18 Marr 1730s 1740s

Img 19 Marr 1713+

Img 21 Burials 1686-1691

Img 22 1695?-1701

Img 23 1702-1706

Img 25 1715-1724

Img 26 &amp; 27 1724- 1730

Img 28 1730-1741

Img 29 1741-1755

Img 30 1757, 1758, 1759

Img 33: 1721 marr

Poor Law Unions
Mitford &amp; Launditch http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/mitford_and_launditch_workhouse.htm

Records of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union1776-1948 Norfolk Record Office C/GP 14 Extent 137 pieces The following parishes comprised the 1836 union: Bawdeswell, Beeston, Beetley, Billingford, East Bilney, Bintry, Brisley, Bylaugh, Colkirk, Cranworth, East Dereham, Great Dunham, Little Dunham, North Elmham, Elsing, Foxley, Great Fransham, Little Fransham, Garvestone, Gately, Gressenhall, Guist, Hardingham, Hockering, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempstone, Letton, East Lexham, West Lexham, Litcham, Longham, Lyng, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, Mileham, Oxwick with Pattesley, Reymerstone, Rougham, Scarning, Shipdham, Southburgh, Sparham, Stanfield, Swanton Morley, Thuxton, Tittleshall, East Tuddenham, North Tuddenham, Twyford, Weasenham All Saints, Weasenham St Peter, Wellingham, Wendling, Westfield, Whinburgh, Whissonsett, Wood Rising, Worthing, Yaxham. All fifty parishes of Mitford and Launditch Hundreds were incorporated in 1775 under the terms of An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, 15 Geo. III, cap. 59. In 1801 the parish of East Dereham separated from the Incorporation, but in 1836 all fifty original parishes plus ten from Eynesford Hundred joined together in a new union. The House of Industry belonging to the old incorporation, built at Gressenhall in 1776-1777, was repaired and altered in 1836 to become the new Union Workhouse. Mitford and Launditch Union Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 10 in 1930. Acquisition Received by the Norfolk Record Office on unknown dates, 6 June 1979 (numbered C/GP 14/1a (part)), 3 February 1984 (numbered C/GP 14/136), 21 July 1989 (numbered C/GP 14/137), 18 May 1976 (numbered C/GP 14/47-49, 82, 101, 104 110-113), 18 March 1976 (numbered C/GP 14/105), and 15 August 1978 (numbered C/GP 14/135).

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

Websites

 * Bintry on GenUKI