England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of New Buckenham lies in south central Norfolk about 5 miles southeast of the market town of Attleborough. New Buckenham is sited on the southwestern end of the B1163 which connects it with the city of Norwich. New Buckenham is unusual within Norfolk in being a totally planned settlement created during the reign of Henry II allegedly because the lord of the Manor, Earl of Chichester, disliked the location of the older settlement of Old Buckenham some 2 miles west. As a result a castle was built and a planned settlement created at its borders. Despite this initial enthusiasm and the granting of a market, New Buckenham did not grow into fully fledged market town status and the market lapsed in favour of nearby Attleborough & Diss. Whilst nominally still a town, New Buckenham, today, is a large compact village still mostly occupying its original boundaries despite modern developments adding in recent times. The area around new Buckenham is almost totally deployed in arable farming and this would also have been the mainstay of the local economy at the time of this transcript albeit perhaps more mixed in its regime. New Buckenham is drained westwards by a small tributary of the River Thet which is joined to the east of Shropham, thence carrying on westwards across the Fens to join the Great Ouse and the North Sea through The Wash. New Buckenham is sited at around 40 metres above the sea and sits in a shallow valley, the land is only gently undulating and within a couple of miles of the town local heights reach only to 60 metres. New Buckenham parish, as it was carved from a wider parish, is one of the smallest by acreage in the rural county, little more than the town and its immediate surroundings, it covered just over 300 acres yet would have supported a population of just over 700 parishioners. As a 12th century creation New Buckenham was too new to be separately registered within Domesday Book, its few assets being included within Old Buckenham. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 31st July 1754 - 27th November 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD540/7 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 5th April 1813 - 6th November 1836 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD540/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Old Buckenham
All Saints
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Old Buckenham
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Carleton
Rode All Saints
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Old Buckenham
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Banham St Mary the Virgin |
Carleton Rose
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Tibenham All Saints |
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Banham
St Mary the Virgin
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Banham St
Mary the Virgin
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Banham
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