Old Buckenham, Norfolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUCKENHAM, OLD (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Guiltcross, hundred of Shropham, W. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Attleburgh. There are places of worship for Baptists, Sandemanians, and Primitive Methodists. Old Buckenham All Saints is an Ancient parish and is adjacent to New Buckenham, Norfolk It has an octagonal 14th century tower and thatched nave and chancel and retains medieval bench ends with figures carved to represent Old Testament prophets.

The Buckenham neighbours should not be confused with Buckenham, Norfolk

Registration Districts

 * Guiltcross1837-1902
 * Wayland 1902-1974
 * Free BMD

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

Norfolk Record Office reference is PD107/1-11, 15-16

Further parish material is found for later years of the parish registers:

Known Issues

There is a known issue in the England Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records) Baptisms on Source film 1911508 have been found to contain the incorrect place data entry and some entries for this parish may also be affected by the error. Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

At present the only Record Search images online are those for Old Buckenham, Norfolk under a heading "Buckenham" This awaits future engineering for correction and Buckenham Parva (Buckenham Tofts) registers are not available online.

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

 * Guiltcross Poor Law Union
 * Swaffham Workhouse
 * See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Probate records
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes B

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

 * Old Buckenham on GenUKI