1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Catfield All Saints |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Catfield lies in eastern Norfolk within
the area of The Broads. Catfield is a large village situated just west
of the A149 and about 3 miles south of the small market town of Stalham.
Catfield sits on a narrow neck of land between Barton & Hickling Broads
which is also followed by the main road. The land may be slightly higher
than that of the water bodies but is still barely 5 metres above the North
Sea which lies some 5 or 6 miles away to the northeast. Catfield is still
large enough, and indeed has expanded in recent times with modern developments,
to retain its facilities and it stretches for nearly a mile along its
main north to south axis. The area surrounding Catfield would have once
been largely pastures and grazing marsh, nowadays there is more arable
farming as the land has been extensively drained. |
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Two standard 800-entry register books cover the period of this transcript, the second is not pre-stamped with its numbers and the clerk chooses to carry on the numbering from that of the first. The registers are filmed on Microfiche 7 - 9 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office. It must be stated that these fiche are rather poor material to work with. Unfortunately the digitised images, available on both Familysearch and a commercial site, are also very poor indeed. Whilst every care has been taken there are likely to be misreads within this transcript due to the poor quality and the transcriber offers a strong caveat accordingly as to accuracy. |
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