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- source: Family History Library Catalog
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NOTE: Beechamwell is often spelled Beachamwell. Only the latter spelling is used in Wikipedia. Since it is some distance from the sea in a county with a long sea coast, it has been decided to call it Beechamwell here.
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A Vision of Britain through Time states that Beechamwell, an ancient and civil parish, became Beachamwell, a civil parish, in 1935, absorbing the whole of Shingham parish and parts of Barton Bendish and Marham civil parishes.
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Beechamwell is a village and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. According to the 2001 UK census it had a population of 334. It is about 10 miles (16 km) east of Downham Market.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Beechamwell from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BEECHAMWELL, a parish in Swaffham [registration] district, Norfolk; 4¼. miles S of Narborough [railway] station, and 5 SW of Swaffham. It has a post office under Swaffham. Acres: 3,730. Real property: £2,289. Population: 356. Houses: 66. The property is divided among a few. Beechamwell Lodge and Beechamwell Warren are chief residences. There are two livings, Beechamwell-All Saints and Beechamwell-St. John and St. Mary, both rectories, in the diocese of Norwich. [Beechamwell-]All Saints is united to the rectory of Shingham, and has no church. [Beechamwell-]St. John and St. Mary is a separate benefice. Value: £191. Patron: J. Fielden, Esq. The church is good, and has a fine tower."
Beechamwell had three ecclesiastical parishes: All Saints, St. John and St. Mary. All Saints merged with Shingham parish and St. John and St. Mary also merged into one eccelesiastical parish. Both of these mergers occurred before 1832 (Source: William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845). All references to the ecclesiastical parishes have been redirected here.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Beechamwell. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Clackclose 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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