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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Ovington is a civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 6.44 km2 (2.49 sq mi) and had a population of 239 in 92 households at the 2001 UK census, increasing to a population of 256 in 101 households at the 2011 UK census. Since 1974 it has been located in the Breckland District.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ovington from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "OVINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Wayland [registration] district, Norfolk; near the river Wissey and the Roman road to Caistor, 1½ mile N N E of Watton [railway] station. Post-town, Watton, under Thetford. Acres: 1,497. Real property: £2,875. Population: 291. Houses: 73. The property is much subdivided.
- "The manor of Ovington-Bozomes belongs to the University of Cambridge; and the manor of Woodhouse belongs to R. J. H. Harvey, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £415. Patron: the University of Cambridge. The church, which was recently restored, has a fine Norman door, and a tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a fuel allotment £52."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Ovington. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Wayland 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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