Elsing, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Elsing, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Eynsford
 * Poor Law Union = Mitford and Launditch
 * Registration District = Mitford
 * PRbegin = 1558
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Sparham
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
ELSING, a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from East Dereham.

Elsing St mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Sparham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. The village is named after a Danish chieftain, “Elesa”, whose image appears on the village sign together with his hunting hound. In mediaeval times, Elsing was a thriving town with a population of over a thousand. It had its own market and guildhall. The church of St Mary, built in 1347, has the widest pillarless nave in East Anglia. There is a brass commemorating the life of Sir Hugh Hastings, the Lord of the Manor. The Hastings family built the moated Elsing Hall in 1470. The Hall has a priest hole amongst its many features - used during the 16th century to hide Catholic priests from persecution.

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

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1698-1699 Image 67
 * 1715-1716 Image 1249
 * 1715-1716 Image 1250
 * 1722-1723 Image 98

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 286

Non-Conformist Church Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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

 * Elsing on GenUKI
 * Parish Info
 * Sparham deanery website
 * Images of the church
 * stained glass of the church
 * British listed buidings