Stanhoe, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
STANHOE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Smithdon, W. division of Norfolk, 12 miles (N.) from Rougham.

Stanhoe All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Norwich. Other places in the parish include: Barwick.

Stanhoe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, only 6.4 miles (10.2 km) from the North Sea. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. During the 19th century, one of its parish priests was Philip Ward, husband of Lord Nelson's daughter Horatia. The nearest large village is Docking, Norfolk. Also near Stanhoe are to be found remains of Creake Abbey, near the village of North Creake, Norfolk.

The people of the village of Barwick have no parish church and by 1845 were using the church at Stanhoe.

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 36 Parish Records of Stanhoe with Barwick

Parish registers of Stanhoe with Barwick, 1558-1908 Microreproduction of original records at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich. Norfolk Record Office nos.: PD36/1-9. The ecclesiastical parishes of Stanhoe and Barwick were combined in 1511. Although two separate communities, the church in Stanhope serves both. For what could be changes in the early dates in these registers, see the note inserted after the baptisms of 1789. It appears, by this note, that the starting date was 1568, not 1558.

General register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1558-1709; General register of baptism, marriages and burials, 1707-1759 (heavily interspersed with "briefs", i.e., collections made for various disasters), baptisms and burials, 1760-1790; Baptisms and burials, 1790-1812; Baptisms, 1813-1868 (register in poor condition); Marriages and banns, 1755-1821; Marriages, 1813-1902; Burials, 1813-1908; Banns, 1824-1844. FHL BRITISH Film 2149816 Items 6 - 14 Banns (contd.), 1844-1890. FHL BRITISH Film 2149817 Item 1 Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812 Microfilm copies of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Baptisms and burials 1725-1812 Marriages 1725-1811 FHL BRITISH Film 1526810 Item 9

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * Barwick on GenUKI
 * Stanhoe on GenUKI