The last of my Long Melford burials are now online! There’s nearly 1,200 from 1741-1765.
There’s not many notes in this set of records, but the vicar decided to record the following after a funeral in 1765:
Mrs. Mary Armstrong, a stranger from the kingdom of Ireland who desired to be buried at 5 in the morning what clothes she had on when she died was never taken from her body & was buried therein.
Marriages 1754-1771 coming soon, then it’s off to a new parish!
The last of my Long Melford baptisms are here! Over 1,000 from 1751 to 1771. In total, there are nearly 11,000 baptisms available on this site from 1560 to 1771.
Some more burials and marriages will follow soon, then I’m off to another parish!
Over 1,000 baptisms from 1731 to 1750 from Long Melford in Suffolk.
We’ve all been waiting for digitised images of Suffolk’s massive collection of parish registers (and hopefully Bishop’s Transcripts too) for a very long time.
The wait is nearly over – they will be released on Ancestry, with an index, on Friday 8th August.
It is very exciting, but I’ve written before about my issues with how error-strewn indexing can be on Ancestry. Since I wrote that, I found an entire page of baptisms on there where the index said all the children were bastards. The only reason I can think for this mistake is because the indexer misread “baptised” as “bastard”. *sigh*
Anyway, here’s a nice photo of a Suffolk church….
Marriages from 1701 to 1753 are now online!
I transcribed marriages from 1717-1753 over a decade ago, so I’ve revised and updated them, as well as added marriages from 1701-1716. There’s nearly 600 for you to look through, and they include several people from Essex, so maybe you’ll knock down some pesky brickwalls!
Image: “The Comforts of Matrimony, a good toast” by Thomas Rowlandson, 1809. © Trustees of the British Museum.
I recently discovered that for ages, I’ve had the wrong documents linked for Little Clacton marriages 1538-1754! Whoops! I’ve now updated the links so all should be well.
More Little Clacton transcriptions are on the way, along with lots more for the seemingly never-ending Long Melford!
Over 1,000 burials for Long Melford from 1721 to 1740 now online. This set includes a larger than usual number of burials in the late 1720s when an epidemic affected the whole country following poor harvests in the middle of the decade.
Nearly 1,400 baptisms for Long Melford, Suffolk, from 1701 to 1730, now online.
600 marriages for Long Melford, from 1651-1700. The couples come from all over Suffolk, and some from Essex, too, so you never know who you might find in these records!
Over 1,200 burials for Long Melford, Suffolk, from 1690 to 1720 now online!
