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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Shropham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 11.12 km2 (4.29 sq mi) and had a population of 351 in 155 households at the 2001 UK census. (Population for 2011 not given in Wikipedia.) For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of Breckland.
Its main building of interest is the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, built in flint in the Perpendicular style.
The village is listed in the Domesday Book under the name "Scerpham".
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Shropham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "SHROPHAM, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Norfolk. The village stands 3 miles NW of Eccles-Road {railway] station, and 4¼ N by W of East Harling; and was once a market-town. The parish comprises 2,678 acres, and is in Wayland [registration] district. Post town: Thetford. Real property: £3,368. Population: 510. Houses: 118. [Shropham] Hall is the seat of T. W. Budd, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £298. Patrons: the Corporation of Norwich. The church is good; and there are a Primitive Methodist chape1, and charities £48."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Shropham. 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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