West Lynn, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
LYNN, WEST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Lynn, hundred of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, ¾ of a mile (W.) from Lynn.

West Lynn St Peter is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.

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

The deposited registers at the Norfolk Record Office are grouped under reference PD331/1-9, 15-16

Registration Districts

 * King's Lynn

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z

Poor Law Unions

 * King's Lynn    http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/kings_lynn_workhouse.htm
 * see also Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Norfolk: West Lynn on GenUKI