Thompson, Norfolk Genealogy

History
Thompson, St Martin is an ecclesiatical parish in the Diocese of Norwich and county of Norfolk.

Church Records
This parish does not appear on Record Search as no microfilm for the parish registers is held. Norfolk Record Office reference PD 156/ 1-5

A search of the Family History Library Catalogue indicates that the following Archdeacon's transcripts are on film but have not yet been converted to digital images for publication.

Archdeacons transcripts, 1602-1812

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and ...


 * Wayland Poor Law Union   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wayland/Wayland.shtml
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Wayland 1837-1974

Census Records
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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851