Roydon (near King's Lynn), Norfolk Genealogy

England  Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
ROYDON (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 6 miles (E. by N.) from Lynn. Roydon All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich and is near Lynn or King's Lynn. It should not be confused with Roydon (near Diss), Norfolk in the same diocese and county.

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.


 * Freebridge Lynn 1837-1938
 * King's Lynn 1939-1974

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

Known Issues

Due to confusion between the two parishes part of the All Saints registers appear and the collection awaits engineering to create distinct image collections for the two parishes.

Norfolk Record office no parish reference located.Parish registers for Roydon (near Kings-Lynn), 1721-1906 filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 2001 at Norfolk Record Office

These images can be found online under Baptisms marriages and burials 1721-1812 (40 images)Baptisms 1813-1901 (42 images) Marriages 1755-1813 which includes list of rectors (11 images) Banns 1755-1811 ( 5 images) Marriages 1813-1836 (14 images) Marriages 1839-1902 (43 images) Burials 1813-1904 (21 images) Banns 1825-1906 ( 35 images)

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Freebridge Lynn Poor Law Union

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

Web sites
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/all-saints-roydon/ contains details of local copies of registers held within the parish

http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nf-roydo.html for information about 1857 church architecture

http://www.stratis.demon.co.uk/gargoyles/gg-th13norfolk5.htm#roydon_allsaints_church

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51248 British History online