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Parish History

BARNHAM-BROOM (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the incorporation and hundred of Forehoe, E. division of Norfolk, 4¾ miles (N. N. W.) from Wymondham. ^[1]

Barnham Broom St Peter and St Paul  is an Ancient Parish in the county of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich.

Other places in the parish include: Bickerstone and Bixton.
15th century church with later renovation

Resources

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.

• Forehoe 1837-1938
• Norwich Outer 1939-1974
• Norwich

Church records

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 326/1
Title Baptisms, 1630, 1633, 1646-1749; Marriages, 1654-1748; and Burials, 1649-1749.
Date 1630-1716
Description With memorandum by rector that he had 'diligently Enquird for the Old Register but can get not account of it. It has bin missing ever Since the last Mr Gannings death, as I am inform'd,' and lists of collections for briefs, 1653-1716.

Images of the parish register for this parish are available on Record Search

The images marked baptisms marriages and burials 1630-1749 are incomplete and baptisms end in 1724. Reloading of additional images await engineering in future. 

Census records

This section requires expansion with: any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed.

Poor Law Unions

Forehoe     http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/forehoe_workhouse.htm

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

Reference

http://www.achurchnearyou.com/barnham-broom-st-peter-st-paul/ for information about the parish

http://www.norwich.anglican.org/church?deanery=8 for churches in the local deanery of Dereham in Mitford

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50779 British History online

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/barnhambroom/barnhambroom.htm Norfolk Churches website

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