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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bawsey is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of King's Lynn and 40 miles (65 km) west of the city of Norwich. The village sits astride of the B1145 Kings Lynn to Mundesley road that dissects north Norfolk west to east.
The civil parish has an area of 6.81 km2 and in the 2011 census had a population of 216 in 105 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
In 1935 Bawsey absorbed the neighbouring civil parish and former extra parochial area of Mintlyn, more than doubling its geographical area. Bawsey included the manor of Bawsey with Glosthorpe.
The church was dedicated to St.James and has been in ruins since at least 1745, its distinctive remains will be familiar to anyone who has travelled the A149 towards Hunstanton, standing high on a hill at Church Farm. It probably started life as a monastic settlement before becoming the parochial church of Bawsey. With no parish church in Bawsey, people must have gone to Gaywood, or even into King's Lynn for various forms of pastoral care.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bawsey from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "BAWSEY, a parish in Freebridge-Lynn [registration] district, Norfolk; 1½ mile NNW of Middleton [railway] station, and 3 ENE of King's-Lynn. Post Town, [King's] Lynn. Acres: 1,090. Real property: £549. Population: 32. Houses: 5. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £55. Patron, A. Hammond, Esq. The church is in ruins."
Research Tips
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- 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.
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