Over 1,000 baptisms from 1731 to 1750 from Long Melford in Suffolk.
More Long Melford baptisms!
Ancestry release Suffolk parish registers on Friday 8th August
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.
- Lots of information here from Suffolk Archives about the project.
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….
More Long Melford marriages
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.
Little Clacton marriages
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!
More Long Melford burials
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.
More Long Melford baptisms!
Nearly 1,400 baptisms for Long Melford, Suffolk, from 1701 to 1730, now online.
More Long Melford marriages!
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!
More Long Melford burials
Over 1,200 burials for Long Melford, Suffolk, from 1690 to 1720 now online!
More Long Melford baptisms!
Over 1,100 baptisms for Long Melford, Suffolk, from 1681 to 1700! Who will you discover?
More Long Melford burials
Over 1,300 burials now online for Long Melford, Suffolk from 1661 to 1691.
