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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Witton (near Blundall) from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WITTON, a parish in Blofield [registration] district, Norfolk; 1¼ mile N of Brundall [railway] station, and 5 E of Norwich. It has a post-office under Norwich. Acres: 587. Real property: £1,361. Population: 144. Houses: 27. [Witton] Hall belongs to E. W. Trafford, Esq., and [Witton] House , to Miss Penrice. The living is a rectory, united with Brundall, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £500. Patron: the Rev. J. S. Green. The church's chancel was recently rebuilt, and the rest restored."
Witton (near Blundall) (often, simply, Witton) lies east of Norwich and 1.75 miles (2.8 km) to the northeast of the parish and village of Postwick. In 1935 Witton was abolished as a civil parish and absorbed into Postwick. At some later date the parish was renamed Postwick with Witton.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Witton. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Blofield 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.
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