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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Tottenhill is a civil parish in the southwest of the Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 5.90 km2 (2.28 sq mi) and had a population of 231 in 97 households at the 2001 UK census, reducing to 219 at the 2011 UK census.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5125 A Vision of Britain through Time] provides the following description of Tottenhill from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "TOTTENHILL, a parish, with a village, in Downham [registration] district, Norfolk; 1¾ mile E by S of Watlington [railway] station, and 6 S of Lynn. Post town: [King's] Lynn. Acres: 1,590. Real property: £2,793; of which £157 are in quarries. Population: 342. Houses: 78. The manor belongs to Mrs. Plestow. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £62. Patron: the Bishop of N. There are poors' lands £34.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Tottenhill. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- 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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