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Name | Old Buckenham |
Alt names | Bucham | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 187 | | Bucheham | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 187 |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.469°N 1.033°E |
Located in | Norfolk, England |
See also | Shropham Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | Guiltcross Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1902 | | Wayland Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district in which it was located 1902-1974 | | Breckland District, Norfolk, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Old Buckenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 20.06 km2 (7.75 sq mi) and had a population of 1,294 in 658 households at the 2001 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.
Old Buckenham is in the southern part of Norfolk, approximately 29 km (18 mi) southwest of Norwich and about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of its post town, Attleborough. Nearby parishes include Wilby, Banham and New Buckenham which is a much smaller parish in terms of area and located immediately to the southeast.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Old Buckenham.
Also, A Vision of Britain through Time provides some historical details from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Old Buckenham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Shropham Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
- 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.
Categories: Norfolk, England | Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England | Shropham Hundred, Norfolk, England | Guiltcross Rural, Norfolk, England | Wayland Rural, Norfolk, England | Breckland District, Norfolk, England
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