Place:Garboldisham, Norfolk, England

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Garboldisham is a village and civil parish, part of Guiltcross Hundred in the Breckland district, in Norfolk, England, near the boundary with Suffolk. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 721 increasing to 969 at the 2011 UK census.

To the south of the village and within the parish are the hamlets of Smallworth and Broomscot Common.

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

"GARBOLDISHAM, a village and a parish in Guiltcross [registration] district, Norfolk. The village stands in the vale of a rivulet, near the river Waveney and the boundary with Suffolk, 4¼ miles SSE of Harling-Road [railway] station, and 8¾ E by S of Thetford; and has a post office under Thetford. The parish comprises 2,705 acres. Real property: £4,406. Population: 701. Houses: 170. The property is divided among three. Garboldisham Hall is a chief residence. There were formerly two parishes, St. John and All Saints; and these are still recognised ecclesiastically. The livings of both are rectories in the diocese of Norwich; but are united. Value: £491. Patron: the Hon. Mrs. M. Montgomerie. The church of St. John is a find building, in tolerable condition; has a handsome porch and a large square tower; and contains monuments of the Montgomeries. The church of All Saints was taken down in last century; but the tower of it remains. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £57."

Research Tips

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