Place:Stokesby with Herringby, Norfolk, England

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Stokesby with Herringby is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It comprises the village of Stokesby and the surrounding rural area including the hamlet of Herringby. It is situated on the banks of the River Bure, some 10 km west of the town of Great Yarmouth and 25 km east of the city of Norwich.

The civil parish has an area of 8.61 km² and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 293 in 116 households, the population increasing to 330 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of Great Yarmouth.

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Stokesby and Herringby was a single ancient parish (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time] These excerpts from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 describe the two settlements:

"STOKESBY, a parish, with a village, in Flegg [registration] district, Norfolk; on the river Bure, 5 miles N by E of Reedham [railway] station, and 5½ E by N of Yarmouth. It has a post-office under Norwich and a ferry. Acres: 2,119. Real property: £2,997. Population: 418. Houses: 88. The property is divided among four. The living is a rectory, united with Herringby, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £526. Patron: the Rev. T. Beard. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel and 20 acres of poors' land." (Vision reference 5744)

"HERRINGBY, a hamlet in Stokesby parish, Norfolk; on the river Bure, 5 miles WNW of Yarmouth. It formerly had an hospital, founded, in 1475, by Hugh Attefenne; it formerly also was a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Stokesby, in the diocese of Norwich." (Vision reference 25220)

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Stokesby with Herringby. 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.