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August 1666 – a bad time to be a sailor?

Posted on 3 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I’m currently transcribing the earliest register for Ramsey St. Michael in Essex. Although the very early register is lost, entries survive from 1645 onwa...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

A Birmingham mystery: is this brick really 132 years old?

Posted on 13 February, 2015 by Helen Barrell

On the junction of Greenfield Road and Vivian Road in Harborne, Birmingham, some refurb work has recently taken place on what was once a furniture upholsterer&#...

Essex

Poison Panic: arsenic deaths in 1840s Essex

Posted on 12 February, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Published on 30th June 2016. UK: Pre-order now directly from the publisher (Pen & Sword), or Waterstones and Amazon. USA: Pre-order from Barnes & Noble ...

Essex

Interesting finds in West Bergholt’s parish registers

Posted on 2 January, 2015 by Helen Barrell

One of the pleasures of transcribing parish registers are the intriguing marginalia that turn up in them sometimes. I’m yet to find a pre-1813 parchment r...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

Exhibition reviews: “Terror & Wonder” and “Sherlock Holmes”

Posted on 8 December, 2014 by Helen Barrell

It was my birthday and I wanted a treat, and seeing as two quite interesting exhibitions were on in London, it seemed as good an excuse as any to wend my way te...

History

Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch

Posted on 3 December, 2014 by Helen Barrell

This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF –  40KB)

Documents

Wills – how they’re indexed and where to find them

Posted on 17 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

What? All that in one blog post? Erm… no… however, there’s been a couple of jumps forward with regards to the availability of wills and will i...

History

Interview with Janice Preston, historical romance author

Posted on 9 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

The first book by Janice Preston, historical romance novelist, was published this summer. Mary and the Marquis tells the tale of a widow, who finds an injured m...

Suffolk

Lawshall & The Gunpowder Plot

Posted on 5 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Everyone knows about Guy Fawkes, the Catholic Yorkshire man [1]Some might claim, Somerset man, but that is Robert Parsons, who came from outside Bridgwater, all...

Essex

The Wivenhoe Poltergeist

Posted on 31 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

What I’m about to write has nothing to do with genealogy, although it’s something that happened to me and a friend of mine in Wivenhoe, so it’...

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