Walsingham Register Office

[Mark Newman]

Hi

An ancestor of mine married in Walsingham Register Office. Does anyone know where this was or what building?  Would it have been Great or Little Walsingham?

Thanks,

Mark

[The Yokel]

Hello Mark

according to this site, references to Walsingham usually meant Little Walsingham

http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/w/walsingham_little/white1883.shtml

not sure where the register office was, could have been the Shire Hall
it does say that John Wesley Watts was the Registrar in the High Street (White's 1883)

regards
yokel

[Mark Newman]

Hi Yokel

Thanks (again  )

Mark

[John Whysall]

As I recall, the Registry Office was at the Shire Hall. The last (and only) time I was in the Shire Hall would have been in 1961.

My recollection amounts to this:
There was an archaeological dig in the Priory grounds. It rained repeatedly. We retreated to the coal-hole. Peter Bellamy (later with the folk-group "The Young Tradition") had a battery-operated record-player, on which we played the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of Louis Armstrong.

There are some good images of Walsingham at http://www.jchristmas.fsnet.co.uk/photos.htm.