Heacham Norfolk Family History Guide

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Heacham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Norfolk.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1691

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Village Heacham Norfolk
The Village Heacham Norfolk

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HEACHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Docking, hundred of Smithdon, W. division of Norfolk, 14 miles (N. N. E.) from Lynn-Regis; containing 811 inhabitants. The parish comprises 3549a. 2r. 18p., of which about 2340 acres are arable, 857 pasture, meadow, and salt-marsh, 96 woodland, and 258 common and waste: the mail-road from Lynn to Wells passes through the village, which is on rising ground, on the sea-coast.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 13. 4.; patron and incumbent, the Rev. S. C. E. Neville Rolfe. The impropriate tithes have been partly commuted for £27. 5. 4., and the vicarial for £263. 12. 8.; the glebe contains 2½ acres, and the incumbent resides at the Hall, a red brick mansion, situated in a small park. The church is chiefly in the decorated style, and is a handsome cruciform structure, with a lofty embattled tower at the intersection; the upper compartments of the windows have been filled with stained glass, a gallery erected at the west end of the church, and an organ presented, by the incumbent.

The Independents and Wesleyans have places of worship. In 1837, Mrs. C. Rolfe bequeathed £500 to the poor, who also receive, in coal, £10. 10. per annum from land allotted at the inclosure. Here was a cell of Cluniac monks, subordinate to the monastery of Lewes.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Heacham near Hunstanton. Harbour. 1913
Heacham near Hunstanton. Harbour. 1913

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Norfolk, Heacham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Heacham, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Norfolk, Heacham – Church records ( 2 )
Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Heacham (Norfolk); Norfolk and Norwich Record Office (Norwich, England)

Marriages at Heacham, 1558-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Heacham (Norfolk); Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913; Johnson, Frederick; Bloom, J. Harvey (James Harvey), b.1860

England, Norfolk, Heacham – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manorial court rolls for Heacham with Members, Calyes in Heacham, and Hunstanton with Holmes
Author: Manor of Heacham-with-the-Members. Court (Norfolk); Manor of Caley’s in Heacham. Court (Heacham, Norfolk); Manor of Hunstanton-with-Holme. Court (Norfolk)

Norfolk Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Norfolk
  • Civil Registration District: Docking
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
  • Diocese: Norwich
  • Rural Deanery: Heacham
  • Poor Law Union: Docking
  • Hundred: Smithdon
  • Province: Canterbury