Place:Ryston with Roxham, Norfolk, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845 is provided online by GENUKI. Its description of Roxham states that it was located 4 miles south by east of Downham Market and had a population of 45 people on 700 acres. There was one landowner, E. R. Pratt, and the land was divided into two holdings farmed by Robert Gilling and Henry Norbourn.

The church serving the parish had been a ruin for several centuries by 1845 and the curacy was consolidated with the adjoining parish of Ryston. Thus the ecclesiastical parish was listed as Ryston with Roxham when civil registration began in 1837. It would appear that Ryston with Roxham was also then considered a civil parish but only covered the original parish of Roxham. Ryston continued as a separate parish to the south. In 1935 Ryston with Roxham was abolished and absorbed into Ryston. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

The area is now part of the King's Lynn and West Norfolk District of Norfolk, England.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Roxham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses as well as to 19th century gazetteers and directories.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Clackclose 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.