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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Great Ellingham is a village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England and covers an area of 1,114 hectares (2,750 acres) with a population of 1,108 at the 2001 UK census, decreasing to a population of 1,132 in 470 households at the 2011 UK census. The village lies 2.5 miles northwest of Attleborough, 2 miles southeast of its sister village of Little Ellingham and 12 miles by road south from East Dereham.
Great Ellingham is served by St James's Church in the Benefice of Great Ellingham.
Great Ellingham was a civil parish up until 1974 and may continue to be, but Wikipedia has omitted this fact.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Great Ellingham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "ELLINGHAM (Great), a village and a parish in Wayland district, Norfolk. The village stands 2 miles NE of Attleborough [railway] station; and has a post office under [Attleborough] The parish comprises 2,670 acres. Real property: £5,676. Population: 717. Houses: 182. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Little Ellingham, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £735. Patron: Samuel Colby, Esq. The church is good; and has a tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans. Rack, the collaborateur of Collinson in the "History of Somerset, " was a native.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Great Ellingham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Shropham 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.
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