1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Walcott All Saints |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Walcott sits on Norfolk's eastern North
Sea coast about 5 miles east of the market town of North Walsham. Walcott
largely consists of a straggle of beach-side properties together with
a scatter of farms and cottages across the inland portion of the parish.
Whilst it would have largely been an agricultural community the occupations
of the fathers in the transcript shows a degree of maritime connections
too despite the lack of a safe harbour along this stretch of coastline.
Sadly this area is experiencing frequent flooding and loss of land to
the sea resulting in a threat to the continued existence of Walcott. Nowadays
Walcott largely earns its living from the beach trade albeit at a very
small scale as well as from continuing arable agriculture. |
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A single standard 800-entry register book covers not only the period of this transcript but runs onwards to end in the mid-20th century. This register is filmed on Microfiche 4 & 5 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office which were used to prepare this transcript. Regrettably these fiche are rather elderly and their images are poor, coupled with some poor clerical work this piece was tricky to prepare and may contain some misreads as a result. Hopefully they will be few in number but because of these quality issues they cannot be entirely ruled out. |
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