Mettingham Genealogical Records
Mettingham Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of birth and baptism records that cover over 250 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
An index to births registered at the central authority for England & Wales. The index provides the area where the birth was registered, mother's maiden name from September 1911 and a reference to order a birth certificate.
An index to births registered to British Army personal at home and abroad.
An index to over 100,000 birth and christening notices from The London Times.
Mettingham Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Abstracts of marriage licences from the Sudbury Archdeaconry. These records may contain more details than marriage registers, including occupations, ages and parents' names.
Abstracts of marriage licences from the Sudbury Archdeaconry. These records may contain more details than marriage registers, including occupations, ages and parents' names.
Abstracts of marriage licences from the Sudbury Archdeaconry. These records may contain more details than marriage registers, including occupations, ages and parents' names.
Abstracts of marriage licences from the Sudbury Archdeaconry. These records may contain more details than marriage registers, including occupations, ages and parents' names.
Mettingham Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
An index of burials recorded at All Saints, Mettingham_. The index includes the name of the deceased, the date of burial, age (where available) and occasionally other notes.
An index to burials recorded at Quaker meetings. The records contain the name of the deceased, the date they were buried and their age.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of death and burial records that cover over 140 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
Mettingham Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
A list of Suffolk householders and the number of hearths they possessed.
A list of taxes paid by heads of households.
Newspapers Covering Mettingham
A regional newspaper covering news and events in Norfolk and Suffolk. The newspaper contains numerous notices and articles useful to family historians, such as notices of birth, marriage and death.
A newspaper covering Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. Around 50% of issues from 1814-1817. Original images, searchable by an OCR index.
A London newspaper that later became The Sun.
A left-wing, British daily that sold up to 2 million copies a day at its peak.
Digital images, searchable by text, of a British daily tabloid.
Mettingham Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
A searchable index to early wills proved in the Court of the Bishop of Norwich. Contains the name of the testator, year of probate, residence and occupation.
A searchable index to early wills proved in the Court of the Bishop of Norwich. Contains the name of the testator, year of probate, residence and occupation.
Full transcriptions of around 1,400 17th century wills from the Archdeaconry of Sudbury in Suffolk. Contains an index of all the people and places mentioned in the wills.
Full transcriptions of several hundred early wills from the Archdeaconry of Sudbury in Suffolk.
Mettingham Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Mettingham Military Records
An introductory history to an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army.
A calendar that lists most of the important dates in the history of the Regiment.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Suffolk, with some service details.
A list of names found on World War Two monuments in Suffolk, with some service details.
A searchable list of over 100,000 British Army POWs. Records contains details on the captured, their military career and where they were held prisoner.
Mettingham Court & Legal Records
A book recording people who voted, who they voted for and where the voter lived.
Transcriptions and translations of pleas brought before a court. They largely concern land disputes. A number of cases relate to Suffolk.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Records of over 300,000 prisoners held by quarter sessions in England & Wales. Records may contain age, occupation, criminal history, offence and trial proceedings.
Over 175,000 records detailing prisoner's alleged offences and the outcome of their trial. Contains genealogical information.
Mettingham Taxation Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
A list of Suffolk householders and the number of hearths they possessed.
Mettingham Land & Property Records
A book recording people who voted, who they voted for and where the voter lived.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Mettingham Directories & Gazetteers
A directory of settlements in Suffolk detailing their history, agriculture, topography, economy and leading commercial, professional and private residents.
Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private residents..
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
Mettingham Cemeteries
Photographs and descriptions of Suffolk's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Mettingham Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Mettingham Histories & Books
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Describes the parishes in the three hundreds of Wangford, Mutford and Lothingland, in the north-east of the county.
Histories of Suffolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
Histories of Norfolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
A traveller's guide to four Southern counties.
Mettingham School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Mettingham Occupation & Business Records
An introduction to smuggling on the east coast of England, with details of the act in various regions.
Profiles of coal and metal mines in the south of England.
Short histories of former public houses, with photographs and lists of owners or operators.
An index to and images of registers recording over 3.7 million trade union members.
Books listing doctors who were licensed to operate in Britain and abroad. Contains doctor's residencies, qualification and date of registration.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Mettingham
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Mettingham Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and descriptions of Suffolk's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Over 600 pedigrees for English and Welsh families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Mettingham Church Records
Histories of Suffolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
Histories of Norfolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Photographs of churches of all denominations throughout England and part of Wales.
Documentation for those baptised, married and buried at England. Parish registers can assist tracing a family back numerous generations.
Biographical Directories Covering Mettingham
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Mettingham Maps
A collection of maps plotting the counties of Essex and Suffolk, and some of their settlements.
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Mettingham Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
At Mettingham, a village about a mile and a half to the east by south of Bungay, was a castle, which, from its ruins, appears to have been of considerable extent and strength, though the gate-house, and some of the walls, are only left standing. This castle was first built by John de Norwich, who obtained a licence from King Edward the Third to make a castle of his house, after which it passed through several hands. In this castle was a college or chantry, founded by Sir John de Norwich, knight, vice-admiral of England, and dedicated to God and the Blessed Virgin, which, at the dissolution, had a revenue of 2202l. 7s. 5d. a year.
METTINGHAM is a parish and scattered village, on the south bank of the Waveney and the borders of Norfolk, 2 miles east from Bungay station on the Waveney Valley section of the Great Eastern railway and 4 west from Beccles, in the Northern division of the county, Bungay petty sessional division, Wangford hundred and union, county court district of Beccles and Bungay, rural deanery of Wangford, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of All Saints is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style, standing on an eminence, and consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and south porch, with a round western embattled tower, containing 4 bells: the north doorway is a good specimen of Norman work, with very early dog-tooth moulding: there are 250 sittings, a large portion being free. The register dates from the year 1680. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value about £100, in the gift of the trustees of the late Charles F. Hope Collisson esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev. William Boyce, who is also headmaster of Bungay Grammar school, and resides in Bungay. Mrs. Charles F. Hope Collisson is impropriator of the great tithes. The town estate consists of a cottage, blacksmith’s shop and 37a. 1r. 14p. of land in Mettingham and Shipmeadow, and two cattle-goings on Stow Fen, now let for £74 5 s. 6d. yearly, which is applied in coals and payments to the sick poor, repairs of the church and expenses incidental to the service, and educational prizes for poor children. In the reign of Edward I. Sir John de Norwich was lord of the manor, and obtained from that monarch, in 1302, a grant of free warren in Mettingham, Shipmeadow and Redesham; in the 9th of Edward II. Walter de Norwich held it, and in the reign of Edward III. it was the manor of Sir John de Norwich, who built the Castle; he died in 1361: the Gate house and the picturesque ivy-clad ruins show it to have been a place of considerable extent and strength; within the ruins, most pleasantly situated, is the residence of Charles Gurdon Kemball esq. J.P. a mansion of red brick, erected in 1880. The Castle farm and out-buildings also are built on the site of the old Manor House: six silver bells were found in, the moat, near the ruins of the supposed belfry tower, about the year 1843, and were taken to Yarmouth. A college for a master and thirteen chaplains or fellows was founded here by Sir John de Norwich and dedicated to God and the blessed Virgin, the college was endowed with the Castle as a residence for the Society, together with the manors of Mettingham and others in Suffolk and Norfolk, and the fraternity here educated and maintained a number of boys: at the Dissolution their revenues were valued at £202 7s. 5 ½d. yearly. The landowners are Mrs. Tallent, the Rev. Mr. Bellwards trustees, Mrs. Charles F. Hope-Collisson, the trustees of the late William Hartcup esq. of Upland Hall, Mr. Herbert Alexander Grimmer and others. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 1,380 acres of land and 12 of water; assessable value, £1,609; the population in 1891 was 325.
This place is included in the Bungay United School Board district, formed 16 April, 1875; the children attend the school at Bungay.
Most Common Surnames in Mettingham
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Wangford Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bird | 43 | 1:8 | 3.89% | 19 |
| 2 | Bedingfield | 22 | 1:17 | 22.22% | 759 |
| 3 | Ellis | 16 | 1:23 | 3.01% | 96 |
| 4 | Meen | 15 | 1:24 | 28.85% | 1,263 |
| 5 | Whaley | 14 | 1:26 | 53.85% | 2,023 |
| 6 | Brighton | 12 | 1:30 | 12.77% | 794 |
| 7 | Godfrey | 11 | 1:33 | 9.40% | 633 |
| 8 | Chase | 10 | 1:36 | 13.16% | 953 |
| 8 | Marjoram | 10 | 1:36 | 3.61% | 251 |
| 10 | Taylor | 9 | 1:40 | 0.46% | 7 |
| 10 | Gooch | 9 | 1:40 | 1.61% | 89 |
| 10 | Pullford | 9 | 1:40 | 100.00% | 3,717 |
| 13 | Hall | 7 | 1:52 | 1.28% | 92 |
| 13 | Reynolds | 7 | 1:52 | 1.14% | 73 |
| 13 | Baldry | 7 | 1:52 | 1.43% | 109 |
| 13 | Crickmore | 7 | 1:52 | 6.42% | 688 |
| 13 | Rushmore | 7 | 1:52 | 21.88% | 1,766 |
| 18 | Wright | 6 | 1:61 | 0.27% | 4 |
| 18 | Woods | 6 | 1:61 | 0.49% | 15 |
| 18 | Osborne | 6 | 1:61 | 1.19% | 106 |
| 18 | Dickinson | 6 | 1:61 | 20.00% | 1,861 |
| 18 | Brett | 6 | 1:61 | 1.86% | 207 |
| 18 | Cossey | 6 | 1:61 | 12.24% | 1,305 |
| 18 | Tilney | 6 | 1:61 | 30.00% | 2,347 |
| 18 | Thetford | 6 | 1:61 | 35.29% | 2,583 |
| 26 | Plummer | 5 | 1:73 | 1.55% | 207 |
| 26 | Downham | 5 | 1:73 | 29.41% | 2,583 |
| 26 | Lawn | 5 | 1:73 | 11.63% | 1,427 |
| 26 | Jorden | 5 | 1:73 | 26.32% | 2,429 |
| 26 | Thirshall | 5 | 1:73 | 100.00% | 5,441 |
| 31 | Sutton | 4 | 1:91 | 1.52% | 267 |
| 31 | Meadows | 4 | 1:91 | 0.96% | 137 |
| 31 | Bezant | 4 | 1:91 | 12.50% | 1,766 |
| 34 | Durrant | 3 | 1:121 | 0.39% | 49 |
| 34 | Jolly | 3 | 1:121 | 1.08% | 247 |
| 34 | Jay | 3 | 1:121 | 1.23% | 300 |
| 34 | Tyrell | 3 | 1:121 | 8.57% | 1,649 |
| 34 | Sadd | 3 | 1:121 | 3.66% | 894 |
| 34 | Grimmer | 3 | 1:121 | 5.66% | 1,243 |
| 34 | Beckham | 3 | 1:121 | 50.00% | 4,877 |
| 34 | Frary | 3 | 1:121 | 33.33% | 3,717 |
| 42 | James | 2 | 1:182 | 0.54% | 172 |
| 42 | Cole | 2 | 1:182 | 0.33% | 75 |
| 42 | Francis | 2 | 1:182 | 0.39% | 104 |
| 42 | Gibbs | 2 | 1:182 | 0.80% | 291 |
| 42 | Kent | 2 | 1:182 | 0.44% | 123 |
| 42 | Collett | 2 | 1:182 | 2.53% | 920 |
| 42 | Hoyles | 2 | 1:182 | 33.33% | 4,877 |
| 42 | Tallent | 2 | 1:182 | 100.00% | 7,894 |
| 50 | Bailey | 1 | 1:363 | 0.17% | 81 |
| 50 | Webster | 1 | 1:363 | 0.83% | 615 |
| 50 | Long | 1 | 1:363 | 0.18% | 85 |
| 50 | Harper | 1 | 1:363 | 0.20% | 111 |
| 50 | Archer | 1 | 1:363 | 0.33% | 228 |
| 50 | Mathews | 1 | 1:363 | 1.67% | 1,146 |
| 50 | Simmonds | 1 | 1:363 | 1.41% | 1,008 |
| 50 | Draper | 1 | 1:363 | 1.61% | 1,106 |
| 50 | Sewell | 1 | 1:363 | 0.52% | 393 |
| 50 | Searle | 1 | 1:363 | 4.17% | 2,116 |
| 50 | Crisp | 1 | 1:363 | 0.23% | 129 |
| 50 | Crowe | 1 | 1:363 | 0.61% | 460 |
| 50 | Cowling | 1 | 1:363 | 3.23% | 1,814 |
| 50 | Knights | 1 | 1:363 | 0.11% | 29 |
| 50 | Catchpole | 1 | 1:363 | 0.16% | 71 |
| 50 | Collyer | 1 | 1:363 | 3.23% | 1,814 |
| 50 | Ladd | 1 | 1:363 | 2.78% | 1,620 |
| 50 | Devereux | 1 | 1:363 | 1.54% | 1,073 |
| 50 | Bexfield | 1 | 1:363 | 7.69% | 2,968 |
| 50 | Whisken | 1 | 1:363 | 12.50% | 4,007 |
| 50 | Parrinton | 1 | 1:363 | 100.00% | 9,362 |