Feltwell Anchor, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Feltwell Anchor, parish, W. Norfolk, adjacent to St Mary and St Nicholas Feltwell.

Feltwell Anchor is an extra parochial place. England Jurisdictions 1851 enables a search of contiguous parishes Feltwell, Norfolk and Littleport, Cambridgeshire

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.


 * Thetford 1837-1938
 * Downham 1939-1974

Church records
This is an extra parochial place.

Poor Law Unions
Thetford Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain