Buxton Workhouse, or House of Industry, was instigated by the Aylsham Union to support the parish poor of a wide area covering largely the hundred of South Erpingham. The workhouse was erected in 1800 but surviving records only commence in 1837. Whilst this is essentially a birth register, most of the children were actually baptised at the Workhouse as well.

This transcript was compiled from Microfilm MFX295 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office. The MFX series are filmed to narrow-width microfilm and require higher magnification to yield a better image. The writing in many cases was extremely small and this has not aided deciphering the entries. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure accuracy this cannot be guaranteed in this transcript. It should be noted that for a short period there were a number of entries where the child was un-named; these entries have been omitted as they yield little of value for the researcher.