Place:Setchey, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"SETCH, or Setchey, a parish in Freebridge-Lynn [registration] district, Norfolk; 2½ miles N E of Watlington [railway] station, and 4 S by E of Kings-Lynn. It has a post-office under [King's] Lynn. Acres: 780. Real property: £1,335. Population: 91. Houses,20. The property is divided chiefly among three. The living is a rectory, annexed to North Runcton, in the diocese of Norwich. The church was built in 1844."

Setchey was originally part of the ecclesiastical parish of North Runcton with Hardwicke and Setchey which was divided into the ancient and later civil parishes of North Runcton and Setchey. In 1935 Setchey ceased to be a separate civil parish and was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of West Winch.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Setchey. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Freebridge Lynn Hundred may be useful.
• 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.
• The standard list of Sources for the parish is not found under "What links here". Both North Runcton and West Winch have been checked to no avail.