History

• Poison Panic: extra information not in my book, about the real people who were caught up in the 1840’s Essex arsenic panic
• The Barrell family: From Badwell Ash to Wivenhoe, via West Bergholt, with the Allston/Austin and Howard/Hayward families
• The Cardinall family: A series of articles about the Cardinall family, who came from Suffolk in the 1500s and lived in the Lexden and Tendring Hundreds
• The Carrington family: a fleet of farmers in the Tendring Hundred
• The Crachrode family
• The Derehaugh family
• The Field family: from Mendlesham to Brightlingsea
• The Gardiner family: A series of articles about the Gardiner family, who lived around Great Bromley in the 18th century
• The Griffin family: A Buckinghamshire family who link Captain Cook to a Colchester department store
• The Knightley family: Staffordshire and Norfolk
• Some notes on the Mannock family
• The Mussetts: a tangled webb of Mussetts in Essex and Suffolk
• Nunn research: informal one-name study-style notes on people with the surname Nunn
• The Paramor families of Kent
• Partridge and Pattrick families: Charles Partridge’s notes from The East Anglian
• The Wade family: A series of articles about the Wade family, who lived on the River Colne in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Sources: Parish registers
• Regiments at Weeley Barracks: 1803-1815, from the parish register
• Life at Weeley Camp & Barracks: 1803-1804, from Mary Ann Grant’s Sketches of Life & Manners
• Who’s who? My more recent ancestors, with trees and brief histories to show how they’re connected to the families on this site.
• The Mash deeds: Overlapping Tendring Hundred families in a collection of deeds
• Reconstructing the Bures St. Mary Nunns: the wills of Joseph Nunn^I(1758) and Sturgeon Nunn (1782) (from Nunn research)
• Naming an unknown soldier Identifying an unnamed WW1 soldier from my grandma’s photograph album
• A tale of two Edwards Edward Sage (1741-1810) and Edward Sage (1745-1816): untangling namesakes
• Unusual names Unusual or unintentionally amusing names from parish registers

Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Detail from 1845 fashion plate.