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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Syderstone is a civil parish in Norfolk, England, near the town of Fakenham. It covers an area of 9.94 km2 (3.84 sq mi) and had a population of 532 in 224 households at the 2001 UK census, the population reducing to 445 at the 2011 UK Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Its church, St. Mary's, is one of 124 round-tower churches in Norfolk.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Syderstone from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "SYDERSTONE, a parish, with a village, in Docking [registration] district, Norfolk; 4 miles SE of Docking [railway] station. It has a post-office under Fakenham. Acres: 2,520. Real property: £2,710. Population: 528. Houses: 110. The manor belonged once to the Robsarts, and belongs now to the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £534. Patron: the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is good; and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a national school."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Syderstone. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Gallow Hundred.
- 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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