Herringfleet, Suffolk Genealogy

England Suffolk  Suffolk Parishes  Herringfleet

Parish History
HERRINGFLEET (St. Margaret), a parish, in the hundred of Mutford and Lothingland, E. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Lowestoft.

Refer to the works listed in Suffolk Gazetteers or England Gazetteers for source material.

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

The parish registers combined with those for Ashby St Mary, Norfolk from 1553 and Gunton from 1734 are available in images on Record Search.

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?Mutford/Mutford.shtml

Registration Districts
Herringfleet is in Mutford district. To search an index of Mutford district records go to FreeBMD. The Suffolk Civil Registration article tells more about these records. Civil Registration began in 1837.

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851