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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish March 9, 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe (Thorpe St. Andrew), and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.
The population of the Thorpe Hamlet ward in Norwich was 10,557 at the 2011 UK census.
The Church of St. Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet, was erected in 1851 upon land given by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on the slope of a hill close by the River Wensum.
Until 1852 it was part of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thorpe Hamlet from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1871-72:
- "Thorpe, township and eccl. dist. (Thorpe St Matthew), Thorpe St Andrew par., Norfolk, in [borough] of Norwich, 730 ac., population 2864; P.O., called Thorpe Hamlet."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Norwich and also for Thorpe St. Andrew. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- A map from Wikimedia shows the "suburbs" of Norwich as mentioned above. This map needs expanding (ctrl+) to be of use.
- See A Vision of Britain through Time for a list of churches that existed in Norwich. All references to churches and city districts of Norwich are redirected here. Some have articles in Wikipedia or in the FamilySearch Wiki
- 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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