Honingham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HONINGHAM, a village and a parish in St. Faith district, Norfolk. The village stands on a branch of the river Wensum. Honingham St Andrew is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

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.


 * St Faith's registration District1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

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

Norwich Record Office reference PD 446/ 1-8

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

Non-Conformist Church Records

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

Poor Law Unions
St Faiths   workhouse

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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Honingham on GenUKI