Place:Marlingford, Norfolk, England

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Gazetteer descriptions of Marlingford are scarce but GENUKI presents one from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883 from which we learn that it was a parish with 226 inhabitants in 1881, and comprised 661 acres of land. It was in the Forehoe union, hundred, and petty sessional division, the Norwich county court district and bankruptcy district, the Norwich polling district of South Norfolk, and the Forehoe division of Hingham rural deanery and Norfolk archdeaconry. Names of families buried in the church are listed.

In 1935 Marlingford absorbed the neighbouring civil parish of Colton. The resulting parish continued to be called Marlingford for a while, but following the county restructuring into "districts" in 1974, the parish has been named Marlingford and Colton.

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Marlingford and Colton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, made from the two villages of those names, both previously church parishes. It covers an area of 6.62 km2 (2.56 sq mi) and had a population of 384 in 148 households at the 2001 UK census, the population reducing to 375 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Marlingford. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Forehoe 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.