Norfolk Family History

This is a list of Norfolk family history, genealogy and local history records available online. Hopefully, they will help you research your Norfolk ancestors and break down those brick walls.

Archives

  • Norfolk Record Office
    Find out how to access the records they hold, get help with your research and the location of the archives.

Births, Marriages & Deaths

  • Free BMD
    Free BMD gives you free access to births, deaths, and marriages from 1837 onwards.
  • Norfolk Parish Records
    Baptisms, marriages and burials from the 1500s to the 1900s.
  • Norfolk Transcription Archive
    The Norfolk Transcription Archive is a great place for genealogists and local historians to find parish register indexes (baptisms, marriages, death), records of subsidy (tax) and muster. There’s also an A-Z index of surnames related to Norfolk family history.
    The archive currently contains 170,000 baptisms, 36,000 marriages, over 100,000 burials and much more.

Cemeteries

Census Records

  • Census 1841-1921
    Search the census records from 1841-1921, plus the 1939 Register which is a great census substitute, with over 440,000 Norfolk residents included.
  • FreeCen
    Has a good, but not complete, selection of free records to search and view.
  • Norwich Census of the Poor 1570
    The details of poor families listed by ward (area).

Criminals & Convicts

Electoral Registers

Forums

  • RootsChat Norfolk
    A great place to find Norfolk resources and request help with your research.

Heraldry

Historical Directories

Local History & Genealogy

Maps

  • Faden’s Map of Norfolk
    The map was the first large-scale map of the whole county and shows the landscape just prior to Parliamentary Enclosure of the early 19th century. Surveyed between 1790 and 1794 the map was published in 1797 in London by William Faden.
  • Historical Norfolk Maps
    The Historical Norfolk Maps website has a map explorer and a map image viewer. It’s possible to view Ordnance Survey maps, aerial maps, tithe maps and enclosures.
  • Norfolk Parish Maps
    Norfolk parish maps from various resources and websites including the Norfolk record office.

Military Records

Newspaper Archives

Occupations

Photos & Postcards

  • Photographs of Old Norwich
    Photographs taken between 1931 and 2006 by George Blunkett, during which Norwich changed through slum clearance, the blitz and redevelopment. All his city photos are arranged by street name in the Norwich Galleries.
  • Picture Norfolk
    Picture Norfolk holds thousands of photos of Norfolk life and history. Find images of Norfolk places, people and events from the past 200 years.
    Enjoy over 17,000 local photographs, prints and paintings online. You can also purchase high quality copies from the site.

Societies & Groups

  • Mid Norfolk Family History Society
  • Norfolk Family History Society
    The Society welcomes people researching their Norfolk ancestors and family history. It currently has around 4,000 members researching their ancestors in Norfolk.
    The Society’s collection of genealogical resources encompass parish register transcripts, monumental inscriptions, census returns, wills, family trees, pedigrees, photographs and a wide range of published work.
    The Norfolk Online Record Search (NORS) database provides Members with online access to the Society’s collection of Parish Register Transcripts.

Workhouse Records