Place:Dunton cum Doughton, Norfolk, England

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Dunton cum Doughton is a small village in the English county of Norfolk. It is located about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the market town of Fakenham. It is close to the village of Sculthorpe and RAF Sculthorpe airfield.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Dunton cum Doughton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"DUNTON-CUM-DOUGHTON, a parish in Walsingham [registration] district, Norfolk; 3 miles W by N of Fakenham [railway] station. Post town: Fakenham. Acres: 1,721. Real property: £2,125. Population: 126. Houses: 28. The living is a vicarage in the [diocese] of Norwich. Value: £161. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is good."

Dunton cum Doughton was an ancient parish in the Gallow Hundred. It became a civil parish during the 19th century. From 1894 until 1935 it was a parish in the Walsingham Rural District. In 1935 the parish was absorbed into a new parish named Dunton.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Dunton cum Doughton. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Gallow 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.