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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
West Acre is a village and civil parish in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk District of the county of Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 14.49 km2 (5.59 sq mi) and had a population of 187 in 83 households at the 2001 UK census, the population increasing to 260 at the 2011 UK census.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of West Acre from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "WESTACRE, a parish, with a village, in Freebridge-Lynn [registration] district, Norfolk; 2¼ miles ENE of Narborough [railway] station, and 5 NW of Swaffham. It has a postal letter-box under Brandon. Acres: 3,400. Real property: £3,454. Population: 415. Houses: 83. The manor, with High House, belongs to A. Hamond, Esq. A black friary was founded here, in the time of William Rufus, by Ralph de Toney; went, at the dissolution, to Sir T. Gresham; and has left some remains. The living is a donative in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £31. Patron: A. Hamond, Esq. The church is later English. There is a national school."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for West Acre. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Freebridge Lynn 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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