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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
Dersingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the town of King's Lynn and 70 km (43 mi) northwest of the city of Norwich.
The civil parish has an area of 14.5 km2 (5.6 sq mi) and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 4,502 in 2,110 households, the population increasing to 4,640 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Dersingham is the most northerly of the parishes in Freebridge Lynn Hundred. The parish directly to the south is Sandringham which includes Sandringham House, a favoured holiday home of Queen Elizabeth and several of her predecessors.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Dersingham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "DERSINGHAM, a parish in Docking [registration] district, Norfolk; on the Lynn and Hunstanton railway, 4 miles NNE of Castle-Rising. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under [King's] Lynn. Acres: 3,472. Real property: £3,985. Population: 822. Houses: 166. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £132. Patron: the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is of flint. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £23, with a fuel allotment."
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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