Brundall, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRUNDALL (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union and hundred of Blofield, E. division of Norfolk, 6½ miles (E. by S.) from Norwich.

Brundall St Laurence 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.


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

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 40
 * 1705-1706 Image 391
 * 1705-1706 Image 392
 * 1715-1716 Image 1210
 * 1722 Image 57

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 435/ 1-4

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

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)

Census Records
1891 Census Surnames Index courtesy of Norfolk Transcription Archive

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.

Poor Law Unions
Blofield Workhouse

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

The union consisted of the following parishes: Acle, Beighton, Blofield, Braydeston, Brundall, Buckenham Ferry, Burlingham St Andrew, Burlingham St Edmund, Burlingham St Peter, Cantley, Freethorpe, Halvergate, Hassingham, Hemblington, Limpenhoe, Lingwood, Moulton, Great Plumstead, Little Plumstead, Postwick, Ranworth with Panxworth, Reedham, Southwood, Strumpshaw, Thorpe St Andrew, Tunstall, Upton with Fishley, Walsham St Lawrence, Walsham St Mary, Wickhampton, Witton, Woodbastwick. Blofield Union was incorporated under the 1834 Act. The Union Workhouse was opened in 1836 at Lingwood. Blofield Union Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 3 in 1930. Acquisition Received by the Norfolk Record Office on 6 May 1971 (C/GP2/29) and on unknown dates.

Land Records
1597 Subsidy Taxes

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

 * Brundall on GenUKI