Society of Genealogists - England: Norfolk Resources

Norfolk

Shelf Mark: NF

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-B | C-G | H-N | O-S | T-Y

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Norfolk parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 7 part 3: Norfolk. London: SoG, 2002. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Norfolk Genealogy: a topographical index of printed & manuscript material in both public & private hands relating to Norfolk genealogy, parts 1-2: A-M & N-Z: Norfolk genealogy, vols. 1 & 2 [NF/PER]

Parish registers & transcripts in the Norfolk Record Office. Rev. edn. [NF/R 71]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [SOGNET]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

East Anglian marriages mainly before 1700 series 1 [Typescript.] [SF/R 285]

East Anglian marriages before 1812 series 2 [Typescript.] [SF/R 286]

East Anglian stray marriages 1538-1860 [Microfiche] [NF/REG/91261/1-2]

The hundred of Launditch & deanery of Brisley in the county of Norfolk: evidences & topographical notes in 3 parts, part 2: Parochial & ecclesiastical history & part 3: Corrections & continuations of & additions to Blomefield's history & antiquities of the county of Norfolk [Store A (NF/LOC)]

Index of names to Bishops Transcripts from the Diocese of Norwich 1685-91, 1705 & 1715: Norfolk Bishops Transcripts & nonconformist registers [NF/R 80]

Marriage & Obituary notices, 1848, 1851, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1890, 1900 (Lynn Advertiser - Norfolk) [NF/R 70]

Norfolk: M 1801-37 [CD-ROM.] [SOGNET]

Norfolk, Norwich & Suffolk Strays, vol. 1 [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet (NF/GEN)]

Out of area collection 1, 1975-76 [UK/REG]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Norfolk & Norwich Quarterly Meeting: Z 1613-1837 & 1689-1795, M 1658-1836 & 1693-1801, B 1657-1837 & 1688-1806 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3368]

Marriage licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line The Origins Network website

16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]

Calendar to the marriage licences, Archdeaconry of Norfolk, 1576/7-89 & calendar to marriage licences, Norfolk Consistory Court, 1579-88 [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]

A collection of pedigrees of Norfolk & Suffolk families, wills & marriage licences: Campling collection [Microfilm.] [Mf 953-962]

Index of the marriage licence bonds 1715-34 for Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire preserved in the Norfolk Record Office vol. 1 grooms Abbitt to Jarvis & vol. 2 grooms Jarvis to Yull with indexes of brides: Norfolk Historical Aids 27-28 (2 vols.) [NF/PER]

Index to marriage licence bonds 1624-1860: in Norfolk peculiar jurisdictions: Norfolk genealogy, vol. 16 [NF/PER]

Marriage licence bonds in the Suffolk Archdeaconry Registry at Ipswich, 1663-1750 [ML/SUF]

Marriage licences from the official notebooks of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk deposited at the Ipswich Probate Court, 1613-74 [SF/R 272 & ML/SUF]

Marriage licences from the official notebooks of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk deposited at the Ipswich Probate Court, 1675-1707 [Manuscript.] [SF/R 274]

Marriage licences of the Consistory Court at Norwich, 1563-88: index [Typescript.] [ML/NOR]

Marriage licences of the Consistory Court at Norwich, 1563-88, A-Bra only, copied from a manuscript in the Norwich City Library [Typescript.] [Box 47/folder 27]

Norfolk & Suffolk marriage licences from the Campling Collection: 16th to 18th centuries ..., vols. 1-5 [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]

Norfolk Archdeaconry marriage licence bonds 1813-37 (held at the Norfolk Record Office): Norfolk genealogy, vol. 25 [NF/PER]

Norwich Archdeaconry marriage licence bonds 1813-37 held at the Norfolk Record Office: Norfolk genealogy, vol. 23 [NF/PER]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Early recumbent figures on monuments in Norfolk before 1500: Rye's Norfolk hand lists, 1st series, no. 6: Norfolk tracts, vol. 1 [NF/G 1]

The hundred of Launditch & deanery of Brisley in the county of Norfolk: evidences & topographical notes in 3 parts, part 1: tenants in chief & fiefs, part 2: Parochial & ecclesiastical history, part 3: Corrections & continuations of & additions to Blomefield's history & antiquities of the county of Norfolk [Store A (NF/LOC)]

Norfolk church monuments [NF/M 6]

Norfolk Genealogy: a topographical index of printed & manuscript material in both public & private hands relating to Norfolk genealogy, parts 1-2: A-M & N-Z: Norfolk genealogy, vols. 1 & 2 [NF/PER]

Norfolk monumental inscriptions (with a key to the surnames) [Manuscript.] [NF/M 8]

Some early English inscriptions in Norfolk before 1600 [NF/M 7]

Some rough materials for a history of the hundred of North Erpingham in the county of Norfolk, part 1 [NF/L 9]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Old Buckenham 1811 & 1821 census, Stoke Ferry annual census of Oxburgh Catholics 1798-1804

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORFOLK - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORFOLK - DIRECTORIES

NORFOLK - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORFOLK - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-B

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