Lakenham St Mark, Norfolk Genealogy

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

History
LAKENHAM, a parish in Norwich district, and within Norwich borough, Norfolk; on the river Yare and on two lines of the Great Eastern railway, 1¾ mile S by E of the centre of Norwich. The parish is cut ecclesiastically into two sections, Old Lakenham and Lakenham-St. Mark. Lakenham St Mark was originally a chapel of ease to Lakenham, Norfolk The present church was built in 1840 by the architect Norwich Dioceasan architect John Brown as part of the expansion of churches around Norwich.

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Civil Registration
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 * Norfolk Record Office

Registration Districts

 * Norwich

Church Records
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Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Norfolk ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Norfolk ($)
 * Norfolk Transcription Archive
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Tinstaafl Baptism Project 1813 to 1880

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

 * England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Norwich Poor Law Union

Probate Jurisdictions

 * Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes I through N

Maps
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