Place:Forncett St. Peter, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Forncett St. Peter from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"FORNCETT-ST. PETER, a parish in Depwade [registration] district, Norfolk; near Forncett [railway] station, 2½ miles W of Long Stratton. Post town: Forncett, under Long Stratton. Acres: 1,828. Real property: £4,855; of which £69 are on the railway. Population: 665. Houses: 148. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £587. Patron: the Earl of Effingham. The church is good; and there are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and town-lands with £10 a year.

In 1935 the two Forncett parishes of Forncett St. Peter and Forncett St. Mary were abolished as civil parishes and combined into Forncett.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Forncett-St. Peter. 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.