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...
Author: Helen Barrell
Update: Bradfield
Nearly 700 burials added for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695.
Update: Toppesfield baptisms
Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Toppesfield, Essex, from 1813-March 1844 now online.
Update: Toppesfield
Transcriptions of over 200 marriages for Toppesfield, Essex, from 1813-1843, now available.
Update: Bradfield
I’ve finished transcribing the earliest register for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695. I’ll be adding spreadsheets of baptisms, burials and marri...
Guest blog: The Mystery of the Sailor in the River
A guest blog for Wivenhoe’s History about a sailor who drowned in the River Colne in 1850. But all was not as it seemed. (A shorter version of this text w...
Update: Halstead
Nearly 250 marriages for Halstead St Andrew now transcribed, from 1837 to 1844.
The Bridges family of Lawford and John Constable’s portrait
If you’re from north-east Essex, and perhaps if you’re from south-east Suffolk, you cannot avoid John Constable. My grandma had a print of The Haywa...
Update: Lawford
Over 700 baptisms for Lawford, Essex, now added, covering 1764-1812. This means there’s now nearly 3,000 baptisms on this site for Lawford, from 1588 to 1...
Where was East Donyland’s old church?
Recently, someone asked me if it’s possible to still visit the site of Rowhedge’s (East Donyland) old church of St Lawrence – the one that was...