The parish of Pulham sits in south Norfolk, on the B1134 road which connects Harleston with the A140 Norwich to Ipswich main road. With its twin parish of Pulham Market the two settlements make a substantial population and act as a centre for the area. Complete with village shops and pubs the community is clearly thriving despite acting somewhat as a dormitory these days.

St Mary's church sits in the centre of the village in a very large graveyard;
it is a large imposing church with a porch described by Nikolaus Pevsner
as imposing. The church has a fairly standard date for Norfolk
churches dating from the mid 13th century in parts and following the Perpendicular style in many of its features.

These records were transcribed from microfiche 9 to 11 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office. These fiche represent quite an elderly filming and the images were not to current standards of clarity. Many were faded with very faint writing, indeed many entries had to be verified against the Bishop's Transcripts to determine the exact entry.

Despite these failings the standard of hand-writing was better than most and this should mitigate against the errors which could otherwise creep in through the poor images. It is to be hoped that relatively few errors will have crept into the compilation of this transcript