Place:Fundenhall, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"FUNDENHALL, a parish in Depwade [registration] district, Norfolk; 2½ miles NW of Forncett [railway] station, and 4¼ SE of Wymondham. Post town: Tacolnestone, under Wymondham. Acres: 1,347. Real property: £2,709. Population: 334. Houses: 65. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: not reported. Patron: T. T. Berney, Esq. The church is ancient, and has a tower. Charities, £9."

Fundenhall was absorbed into the parish of Ashwellthorpe in 1935. In 2003 the parish was renamed Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall. Both parishes and then the combined parish were in Depwade Rural District from 1894 until 1974 and then in the South Norfolk District.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Fundenhall. 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.