If anybody has been noticing problems with this website I appologize. If you have been accessing this website using www.doun.org/transcriptions please use www.genealogy.doun.org/transcriptions/. If you are still having problems, please email me genealogy@doun.org and let me know.

Secondly I have had to disable the built in search functionality and replace it with google's search. I realize this may not be as good, but unfortunately the search was overloading my web server and I was getting shut down. I hope you are finding the google search adequate. Don't forgot one of the best places to start is the Surnames page.

Lastly, I am planning on keeping this site running and am hoping as time permits to add more transcriptions to the site. If there is anybody still interested in transcribing please contact me at genealogy@doun.org.

Thank You,
Andrew

This site is no longer being updated or maintained. I will be keeping the site available as long as possible, whilst long term future of the information contained is considered. We would like to thank all the transcribers for their hard work over the years, without them none of this would have been possible. Should you wish to take over the the running of this site, please contact Andrew Rivett.

This site will be remaining online until I am able to find the right person to take over the maintence. I would like to thank everybody who has emailed and I appologize if I haven't gotten back to you, the response has been overwhelming. Unfortunately things in my work and personal life are really busy right now and I just don't have the time to email everybody back. I will be saving all emails and going through them in a couple of months when time permits.

Thank You,
Andrew

It is hoped that this site will grow into a large archive of records that will assist genealogists and local historians alike. We have tried to make it as user friendly as possible, but always welcome suggestions for improvement. It is presently based on records relating to the county of Norfolk, England. You will find parish register indexes (baptisms, marriages, death), records of subsidy (tax) and muster. Future aims are to include as wide a base of material as possible. Each document should have a brief description as to what it is, and if archaic words are used that may be unfamiliar, a short explanation will be added.

To help locate each place that is mentioned, a district or area has been added. We settled on the word district to cover several names used to describe administrative areas. For example, from late Saxon times (10th century) until the end of the 19th century, the basic unit of administration in English counties was the Hundred. But from the end of the 18th century onwards, the areas covered by the Poor Law Unions were also important distinctive districts which did not always follow the lines of the Hundred.

So, you will find that we refer to 'Place and District', and where necessary draw a distinction as to the type of district, e.g. Hundred, Union, Archdeaconry, etc.

Finally, the spelling in older records is not at all consistent so do please try to think of all possible permutations when searching for a name.

This site includes photographs - the people who submitted them for use on this website retain the copyright. You may download and print the image for personal use and/or private research by yourself, or on behalf of a friend who does not have access to the internet. Use of the photographs for any commercial purpose without written permission is strictly prohibited.

The records within this archive have been copied as carefully as possible, but we are only human and mistakes can occur, for which we apologize.

Original Documents:
Parish Registers and Archdeacon's Transcripts for most of Norfolk are in the care of the Norfolk Record Office at Norwich. The NRO sells fiches or films of most of the registers and transcripts.

The Public Record Office is the custodian of the census returns for Norfolk and many subsidy, muster and valuation records included on this website.

Andrew Rivett and Geoff Lowe

The following table is the number of records we currently have in the database.

Baptisms (Parish Register):	144514
Baptisms (Workhouse Register):	231
Baptisms (Bishop's Transcripts):	27617
Baptisms (Wesleyan Methodists):	817
Banns (Parish Register):	4365
Marriages (Parish Register):	30244
Marriages (Bishop's Transcripts):	6501
Burials (Parish Register):	87407
Burials (Workhouse Register):	517
Burials (Bishop's Transcripts):	16903
Gravestones:	65
War Memorials:	1610
Census Returns:	143797
Musters:	347
Poll Books:	69
Surveys:	318
Subsidy Taxes:	3698
Parish Taxes:	27
Other Taxes:	34
Hearth Taxes:	3062
Parish Info:	240
Photos:	686
Other Links:	2137
Articles:	3
Total Records:	475209