South Creake, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide toSouth Creake, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CREAKE, SOUTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Brothercross, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Burnham Westgate. There is a place of worship for Independents.

South Creake Our Lady St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich.

South Creake is a village and civil parish in north west Norfolk, England. The village lies 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of its twin village of North Creake, and some five miles (8 km) north-west of the town of Fakenham. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

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.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Census records

 * 1891 Census Surname Index: Transcribed by Pat Greetham
 * 1891 Census Surname Index: Transcribed by Pat Greetham

Military Records

 * World War 1 Memorial: Transcribed by Byron and housed by Norfolk Transcritpion Archives
 * World War 2 Memorial: Transcribed by Byron and housed by Norfolk Transcritpion Archives

Poor Law Unions
Docking Poor Law Union, Norfolk

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.

Tax Records
1597 Subsidy Taxes: Transcribed by Geoff Lowe and housed by Norfolk Transcription Archives

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

 * Norfolk: South Creake on GenUKI