More East Bergholt burials online – from 1656 to 1682. It was a busy place in the seventeenth century, with 1,200 burials in less than three decades!
The image shows the memorial brass for Robert Alefounder in St Mary’s church, East Bergholt, who died in 1639. Unfortunately, he passed away before the surviving records for the parish began, but it’s a brilliant image showing how a wealthy man of the period would’ve dressed.
