Blickling, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Blickling St Andrews is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

The flint and limestone 15th century Grade II listed church was substantially remodelled in the 19th century. Surviving from the medieval building is the collection of brasses, several are to the Boleyn family and Anne Boleyn. Sir Nicholas Dagworth (b.1390 an early owner of the hall) is buried in the church and marked by a tombstone. Also of note is the memorial to the eighth Marquis of Lothian by George Frederick Watts.

Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Aylsham on the B1354 road. Since the 17th century the village has been concentrated in two areas, around the church and also at the park gates of Blickling Hall. Most of the village is contained in the Blickling Estate, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1940.

BLICKLING (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 1¼ mile (N. W. by N.) from Aylsham.

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 Free BMD.


 * Aylsham 1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Parish poor law records, 1630-1845 Microfilm copy of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, England.

Norfolk Record Office no.: PD 434/24-25, 28, 31, 33, 35-40.

Overseer's accounts &amp; poor rate assessments, 1758-1836 Apprenticeship indentures, 1630-1797 Settlement certificates, 1722-1845 Bastardy bonds, 1774, 1793-1794 Settlement certificates, 1796-1827 FHL BRITISH Film 1702229 Items 10-20

See England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Probate Records
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes B

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851

Websites

 * Blickling on GenUKI
 * Blickling A-Church-Near-You website
 * Blickling Parish Church SevenChurches website
 * Listed buildings
 * British History