Babingley, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Babingley St Mary and St Felix is an ancient parish with two churches or more accurately the old ruined church of St Felix and it's replacement "tin Tabernacle."

The chapel of St Felix is unique in East Anglia, and perhaps in England, as a thatched, cruciform 'tin tabernacle', a corrugated iron building constructed from a kit, probably made by Boulton and Paul of Norwich.

It was declared redundant by the Church of England and acquired by the British Orthodox church. When Anglicans locally rejected the ordination of women within the Church Of England they did not feel comfortable with conversion to Roman Catholicism but embraced the Orthodox tradition.

BABINGLEY (St. Felix), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 8½ miles (N. N. E.) from Lynn.

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

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1705 Image 360
 * 1722-1723 Image 15
 * 1874-1875 Image 1
 * 1865-1871 Image 2
 * 1865-1868 Image 3
 * 1868-1874 Image 4

This parish does not appear on Record Search as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue indicates that the following Archdeacon's transcripts are on film but these have not yet been converted to digital images for publication

Poor Law Unions

 * For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?FreebridgeLynn/FreebridgeLynn.shtml
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Freebridge Lynn

Probate Jurisdictions
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes B

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Web Sites

 * Babingley on GenUKI