Situated in the Waveney valley, Wortwell is part of the greater Anglican chapel of Redenhall which includes the market town of Harleston. The Baptist Chapel, of course, kept a record of baptisms but as these were largely adults with no genealogical relationships it was felt more fruitful to record the entries in the Chapel's birth book. This book was quite irregularly kept and was a purely hand-written record without the formal predefined forms of the Anglican world.

The book initially starts with a page per family but this format is not maintained throughout and the entries in this transcript have been resorted into birth date order for ease of use. The sequence numbering records the order in which the entries occur in the book.

This transcript has been prepared from Microfilm MF1618 in the records of the Norfolk Record Office. The filming was of an acceptable standard and whilst there were the odd piece of difficult hand-writing this was not too arduous a transcript.