West Lynn, Norfolk Genealogy
Guide to West Lynn, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| West Lynn, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Freebridge-Marsh-Land |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | King's Lynn |
| Registration District | Kings Lynn |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1695 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1600 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Lynn |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich |
| Location of Archive | |
| Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
LYNN, WEST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Lynn, hundred of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, ¾ of a mile (W.) from Lynn. [1]
West Lynn St Peter is an Ancient parish in the diocese of Norwich.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
West Lynn, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| West Lynn, Norfolk Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1704-1915 | 1704-1908 | 1704-1903 | |||
| FS ATs | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | 1600-1812 | |||
| FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| FS PRs | Undefined | 1695-1915 | Undefined | 1695-1908 | Undefined | 1695-1902 |
| JOIN | 1730-1837 | |||||
The deposited registers at the Norfolk Record Office are grouped under reference PD331/1-9, 15-16
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
- King's Lynn
Probate Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]
Norfolk Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T through Z
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- King's Lynn http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/norf/kings_lynn_workhouse.htm
- see also Norfolk Poor Law Unions
Maps[edit | edit source]
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Norfolk: West Lynn on GenUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 203-208. Date accessed: 05 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 27 February 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812,' FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941', FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1538-1900', FamilySearch, accessed 17 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 11 February 2014.
