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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "ROCKLAND-ALL SAINTS, and ROCKLAND-ST.ANDREW, two parishes in Wayland [registration] district, Norfolk; 3¾ and 3½ miles W by N of Attleborough [railway] station. They have a post-office, of the name of Rockland, under Attleborough. Acres: 1,671. Real property: £3,092. Populations: 373 and 111. Houses: 77 and 25. The property is much subdivided. The Wayland workhouse is in [Rockland] All Saints. The livings are conjoint rectories in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £546. Patron: the Rev. A. B. Hemsworth. All Saints' church was restored in 1860. St. Andrew's church has long been in ruins. There are a national school, and charities £25."
A Vision of Britain through Time goes on to say that the individual ecclesiastical parishes (redirected here) were joined in 1885 under the name Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew. From 1894 until 1935 the new parish was part of the Wayland Rural District. In 1935 it merged with the adjoining parish to the northwest, Rockland St. Peter, and so became the parish of Rocklands.
NOTE: The parish of Rockland St. Mary is located in the southern Norfolk Broads and is about 20 miles to the east. Other than its name, has no link to these parishes now in the Breckland District.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew. 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.
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