Gaywood, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Gaywood, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Freebridge-Lynn
 * Poor Law Union = Freebridge Lynn
 * Registration District = Freebridge Lynn
 * PRbegin = 1654
 * BTbegin = 1600
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Lynn
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
GAYWOOD (St. Faith), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, ¾ of a mile (E. by N.) from Lynn.

Gaywood St Faith is an Ancient parish in the Lynn deanery of the Diocese of Norwich. The church and parish of the ancient village of Gaywood, which is now a suburb of King's Lynn, and since 1974 has been shared by the Gaywood Methodist congregation. It is a Local Ecumenical Partnership, where Anglicans and Methodists share fully in each others worship and work together in every aspect of church life. Includes Highgate.

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
Gaywood 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.

Poor Law Unions
Freebridge Lynn Poor Law Union

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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Gaywood on GenUKI
 * Gaywood Methodist services at St Faith's Please note that the church operates a parish office and visitors are advised to contact in advance. Contact details are on the parish website.
 * Gaywoodon Norfolk churches website (images of the church)
 * Gaywoodon British History Online