Place:Hackford by Reepham, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Hackford by Reepham was absorbed into the civil parish of Reepham in 1935. Hackford was a community located to the west of the larger settlement.

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

"HACKFORD BY REEPHAM, a parish in Aylsham [registration] district, Norfolk; on a branch of the river Wensum, contiguous to the W side of Reepham parish, and 7 miles E by N of Elmham [railway] station. It includes a suburb of Reepham; and its post town is Reepham, under Norwich. Acres: 754. Real property: £3,652. Population: 761. Houses: 178. The property is divided among a few. Hackford Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Whitwell, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £328. Patron: G. H. Holley, Esq. The church was burnt in 1600; and now the church of Whitwell serves also for Hackford. Charities, £27."

Research Tips

• The FamilySearch Wiki combines Whitwell with Hackford as it was a joint ecclesiastical parish. This article is useful as a finding aid rather than a description of the place.
• The Ordnance Survey Map of Norfolk revised 1944 illustrates Reepham and the surrounding parishes which, by the time of the map, had been absorbed into the parish.
• GENUKI provides a list of references for Hackford by Reepham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Eynesford or Eynsford Hundred may be useful.
• 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.