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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Roudham is a small settlement in south central Norfolk, England, part of the modern civil parish of "Roudham and Larling" in the District of Breckland.
It was once home to Roudham Junction railway station. There are remains of a medieval settlement.
The parish of Larling was abolished and absorbed into Roudham in 1935. The parish name "Roudham and Larling" was adopted in 2000. (See below.)
Roudham and Larling
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Roudham and Larling is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 15.20 km2 (5.87 sq mi) and had a population of 278 in 119 households at the 2001 UK census, increasing to a population of 301 in 119 households at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of Breckland. River Thet flows next to Roudham and Larling.
The parish of Roudham and Larling is formed from the two ancient parishes which centred round the churches of St Andrew in Roudham and St Botolph in Larling. Up until 1894 all the duties usually performed by a local government were fulfilled by the churches, until the Local Government Act of that year which created civil parishes alongside ecclesiastical ones. The two parishes were known as separate ones for many years, when on the 14th August 2000 at the request of Breckland council who declared a Notice of the Change of the Parish Name, making the civil parish now be more commonly known as Roudham and Larling.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Roudham and Larling.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Roudham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "ROUDHAM, a parish in Wayland [registration] district, Norfolk; near the Peddar-way, 2 miles N W by W of Harling-Road [railway] station, and 6½ N E of Thetford. Post-town: Thetford. Acres: 2,085. Real property: £1,036. Population: 132. Houses: 24. The manor belongs to Sir T. G. Sebright. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: not reported. Patron: Sir T. G. Sebright. The church has long been in ruins."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Roudham. 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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