Place:Rockland St. Peter, Norfolk, England

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Rockland St. Peter has been since 1935 a village within the civil parish of Rocklands in the English county of Norfolk. Its church is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in the county.

From 1894 until 1935 it was a separate civil parish in Wayland Rural District from 1894 and prior to that an ancient or ecclesiastical parish in Wayland Hundred. It joined with the adjoining parish to the southeast, Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew, to form the current parish of Rocklands. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time

NOTE: The parish of Rockland St. Mary is located in the southern Norfolk Broads and is about 20 miles to the east. Other than its name, has no link to these parishes now in the Breckland District.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Rockland St. Peter. 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.