West Newton, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk   Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
NEWTON, WEST (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 7 miles (N. N. E.) from Lynn.

West Newton St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich and one of the Sandringham Estste churches.

It has a fourteenth century tower and most of the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1880 after the Estate was purchased by the Prince of wales who commissioned Arthur Bloomfield to carry out the rebuilding.

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

This parish's registers do not appear on FamilySearch as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the Family History Library Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Poor Law Unions
Norfolk 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
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