Where You Can Find Over a Million British Church Records that are Now Indexed!
Over a million Church of England records from the county of Norfolk are among materials now indexed at FamilySearch.org.
The collection includes bishops’ registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from the mid-1600s to the mid-1900s.
- Baptismal records may include the child’s name, date and place of baptism, parents’ names and residence, legitimacy status of the child, father’s occupation and minister’s name.
- Marriage records may include the names, ages, marital status and residence of bride and groom; date and place of marriage; fathers of the bride and groom and information on whether banns were published.
- Burial records may include the name, age, and residence of the deceased and the date and parish of burial.
The Church of England was a state-sponsored church. This helps genealogists because it means that most everyone who lived there (until the mid-1800s or so) is likely to show up in Church of England records. So if you had English ancestors who lived in Norfolk, take a look. These images have been online since 2010, but the new index makes them a lot easier to search!