1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Dersingham St Nicholas |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Dersingham lies in northwestern Norfolk
about 8 miles north of the port of King's Lynn. Dersingham is a coastal
settlement sitting on the former route of the busy A149 road (which thankfully
bypasses the village to its west nowadays) which forms Norfolk's coast
road from King's Lynn around to Cromer. Despite being a coastal settlement,
Dersingham is more than 2 miles from the sea being separated by extensive
reclaimed grazing marshes from the waters of The Wash. Dersingham is a
substantial village, one of a string of settlements which sit on the break
of slope where the marsh meets rising ground underpinned by chalk. The
upper part of the village sits over 40 feet higher than the line of the
A149. The village would have had a mixed economy at the time of this transcript,
arable agriculture on the higher ground supplemented by pastoral grazing
on the salt marshes; with no port the influence of the sea was minimal
beyond wildfowling & shellfish harvesting. Today Dersingham is both
a commuter village for King's Lynn and also a substantial village in its
own right with most facilities still active, a tourism industry has grown
up supporting the attractions of the local natural environment. |
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Two standard 800-entry register books cover the period of this transcript, both are filmed on Microfilm MF994 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office. The film is not one of the much improved recent filmings but the images are of sufficient quality as to make the occasional poor handwriting the only issue of note. As a consequence this was straightforward to prepare and online images on Familysearch are also available to check the more troublesome entries. |
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