Bawsey, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bawsey St John was an ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.

The church has been ruined since the 1700's. It was previously recorded as a church in the Lynn denaery of the diocese.

A local landowner cleared the village in the sixteenth century.

Bawsey is a civil parish within the Kings Lynn area.

BAWSEY (St. James), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Lynn.

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.

The civil parish is within the following registration districts:


 * Freebridge Lynn 1837-1938
 * King's Lynn 1939-1974

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

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1698-1699 Image 15
 * 1715 Image 1185

Norfolk Record Office reference refers for registers post the years of the Archdeacon's Transcript years to Gaywood, Norfolk PD 451 for Gaywood with Bawsey and Mintlyn.

The parish registers for earlier years are not available on microfilm.

Non-Conformist 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
Freebridge Lynn     http://www.workhouses.org.uk/FreebridgeLynn/

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

 * Bawsey on GenUKI