Forncett St Mary, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Forncett St Mary, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {{Infobox England Jurisdictions {{Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
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 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Norfolk
 * Hundred = Depwade
 * Poor Law Union = Depwade
 * Registration District = Depwade
 * PRbegin = 1688
 * BTbegin = 1705
 * Province = Canterbury
 * Diocese = Norwich
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 * Rural Deanery = Depwade
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
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 * Archive = Norfolk Record Office

Parish History
FORNCETT (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Long Stratton.

Forncett St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

For many years the combined parish of Forncett St Peter, Norfolk and St Mary has served the needs of local people. St Mary was declared redundant in the 1970's and is an isolated empty church.

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.


 * Depwade 1837-1935
 * Forncett 1935- 1974

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

Norfolk Record Office reference PD278/1-4, 23-24

Parish registers on microfilm:

Non-Conformist Church Records

 * 1613-1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Depwade Poor Law Union

See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

 * Forncett St Mary on GenUKI