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Browse Norfolk borough records from 1317 to 1981.

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Within this collection of records from the Norfolk Record Office, various events are included. You can search by the following event types:


  • Admission book
  • Apprenticeship indentures
  • Apprenticeship indentures index
  • Apprenticeship registers
  • Board of health rate books
  • Book of bastards
  • Book of proceedings & apprenticeship registers
  • Chamberlains’ accounts
  • Church rate book
  • Court book
  • Court roll & apprenticeship indentures
  • Freemen’s admission registers
  • Freemen’s registers
  • Freemen’s roll
  • Freemen’s rolls, burgesses’ admissions & bailiffs’ lists
  • Guardians of the poor board minutes
  • Guildhall court book
  • Highway rate book
  • Index of apprentices
  • Index to freemen admissions
  • Index to freemen rejections
  • Index to freemen’s roll
  • Index to removals
  • Leet book
  • List of inhabitants
  • Militia papers
  • Minutes
  • Muster book
  • Muster lists
  • Muster notes
  • Muster orders & lists
  • Muster returns
  • Muster roll
  • Old free book
  • Old free book index
  • Order book
  • Overseers’ accounts
  • Overseers’ relief
  • Petitions for freedom of the city
  • Poor rate book
  • Sessions minutes
  • Settlement bonds
  • Waste sessions book
  • Watch rate book


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