Unfortunate ways to die in Elmstead
Elmstead’s earliest burials register contains the cause of death for a few of the residents, and they give an insight into how life was lived – and ...
Author: Helen Barrell
Updates to “Goings on in Dedham”
Back in July last year, I was transcribing Dedham’s second oldest surviving parish register and found some interesting goings on among the baptisms. You c...
“An Aethiopian of Ginny”
Jean Jeggo, transcribing Gosfield’s baptism register for FreeREG, found the following entry: Thomas an Aethiopian of Ginny in Africa beeing about twelve y...
Suffolk parish register transcriptions at Findmypast
You may or may not be aware that there’s a lot of Suffolk parish register transcriptions available at commercial genealogy site Findmypast. They have a gr...
Goings on in Dedham’s baptisms
Most of the children who appear in Dedham‘s baptism register in the early/mid-eighteenth century are born to married parents, with only a few illegitimate...
Interview on BBC Essex
I was on Peter Holmes’ BBC Essex show this morning, talking about the wonderful snippets of history I’ve found in parish registers. In the UK, you c...
Suckling’s Essex
I’ve found something rather fun on Google Books – Suckling’s Memorials etc of Essex, published in 1845. He went round many of the parish churc...
Snippets of life in Langham, part 2
Another blog based on the notes in Langham‘s parish register. A certaine person When Nathaniel Hinds got married in 1702, rather than just state that his ...
Snippets of life in Langham, part 1
There’s some very interesting notes in Langham‘s parish registers, which revive moments in the lives of Langham’s long-dead inhabitants. This ...
Whose body? A Plymouth Quaker mystery
Imagine how annoyed you’d be if the graveyard you were buried in was repurposed as a car park? Everyone else who had laid beside you for over a hundred ye...