Great and Little Snarehill, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
SNARESHILL-HOUSE, an extra-parochial district, in the hundred of Guilt-Cross, W. division of Norfolk, 1¾ mile (S.) from Thetford.

Great and Little Snarehill is an extra parochial place. it is necessary to search neighbouring parishes. England Jurisdictions 1851 has the capability to search contiguous parishes Barnham, Suffolk Euston, Suffolk Kilverstone, Norfolk Rushford, Norfolk Thetford St Cuthbert, Norfolk Thetford St Mary the Less, Suffolk

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.


 * Thetford 1837-1935
 * with Brettenham 1935-1938
 * Wayland 1939-1974

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the [https://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/ Norfolk Record Office

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)

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: Snarehill on GenUKI