Place:Runham, Norfolk, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Runham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"RUNHAM, a village and a parish in Flegg [registration] district, Norfolk. The village stands near the river Bure, at the Runham-Swim ferry, 4½ miles W N W of Yarmouth [railway] station; and was once a market-town. The parish includes a detached portion, called New Runham or Vauxhall, immediately adjoining Yarmouth, and on which fish-offices, manure-works, and the terminus of the Norwich and Yarmouth railway are situated; and it was re-turned in the census of 1851 as including also the extra-parochial tract of Nowhere. Post-town: Filby, under Norwich. Acres, with Nowhere: 1,715. Real property: £4,413. Population, exclusive of Nowhere, 396. Houses, 84. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £207. Patron: the Bishop of Norwich. The church is old, and was recently restored. There are a national school and a poors' allotment of 27 acres."

Runham was an ancient parish and a civil parish within East Flegg Hundred in Norfolk and was part of the ancient borough of Great Yarmouth until 1889 when the ancient borough became the County Borough of Great Yarmouth. In 1894 the area of Runham Vauxhall (see description in Wilson's Gazetteer above) was broken off and remained within Great Yarmouth while the rest of the parish became part of East and West Flegg Rural District. In 1935, when the rural district was abolished, Runham was absorbed by the parish of Mautby (with a small part joining the parish of Reedham). (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time) The area has been, since 1974, part of the Great Yarmouth District.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Runham. This includes a table of population figures from 1801 to 1911. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of the Hundreds of East and West Flegg.
• 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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