Place:Barnham Broome, Norfolk, England

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source: Family History Library Catalog

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Barnham Broome is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated on the River Yare, 9 miles (15 km) west of Norwich and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Wymondham.

The civil parish has an area of 7.24 km2 and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 552 in 220 households, increasing to 590 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of South Norfolk.

Barnham Broome had two ancient or ecclesiastical parishes: Barnham Broome St. Michael and Barnham Broome St. Peter and St. Paul. Neither became civil parishes, but Barnham Broome St. Peter and St. Paul continues as the parish church. The only reference found that mentions them both is Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854. Both have been redirected here along with Bixton or Bickerton which White states was a hamlet in the parish.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Barnham-Broome. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Forehoe Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.