This week I catch up with Deceased Online's new collections and summarize what's currently available to help locate ancestors who died in Norfolk Above: headstones around the ruins of a church at Tunstall My personal Norfolk family history stretches back centuries. The surnames in this branch of my tree include Pymer, Oxorough, Betts, and Feetham - names common in this region in the Middle Ages when the county grew rich f rom the textile trade. Bordering Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, this East Anglian county was one of the most highly populated and prosperous parts of England in the Middle Ages. By the end of the 16th century, its cathedral city of Norwich was the second largest in England. Norfolk's economic significance was already in decline by the time of the Industrial Revolution in which it played little part. Railwa ys arrived late. The c ounty remains largely rural, with many of its churches and historic buildings well-preserved. During ...