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Great Clacton update

Posted on 29 March, 2021 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 2,000 burials for Great Clacton from 1544-1710 now at Essex & Suffolk Surnames! More to follow.

Essex

The Hubbards of Bovills Hall

Posted on 15 March, 2021 by Helen Barrell

I’m currently transcribing Little Clacton’s parish register. When I spotted Hubbards in the register, my interest was piqued as my 12 x great-grandf...

Essex/Transcriptions

Prudence, the unhappy bride

Posted on 15 March, 2021 by Helen Barrell

TW: suicide I’m currently transcribing Little Clacton’s earliest register, which survives from 1538. On 15 August 1592, Clement Fenn, a single man, ...

Essex/Transcriptions/Updates

Great Clacton updates

Posted on 3 March, 2021 by Helen Barrell

Lots of Great Clacton updates coming your way! First of all, marriages from 1544 to 1710.

Essex/Transcriptions

Update for Colchester St Leonard’s in the Hythe

Posted on 21 February, 2021 by Helen Barrell

Over 2,000 baptisms and over 1,500 burials for Colchester St Leonard’s at the Hythe, from 1813 to the 1870s.

Documents/Essex/Sources

The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it

Posted on 23 November, 2020 by Helen Barrell

I first heard about the Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index (EWBI) in a newsletter from the Essex Society for Family History. It’s a remarkable index compiled...

Essex/History/Suffolk

Some notes on the Mannock family

Posted on 15 November, 2020 by Helen Barrell

Do you have Mannock ancestors in your tree? The line of Mannocks who lived at Gifford’s Hall in Stoke-by-Nayland, the descendants of George Mannock’...

Essex

Don’t diss Frinton’s church!

Posted on 20 October, 2020 by Helen Barrell

I’m transcribing records for Frinton at the moment. It once had a tiny population and an equally tiny church. In trying to find out more about life in a t...

Essex

Unfortunate ways to die in Elmstead

Posted on 18 October, 2019 by Helen Barrell

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 ...

Essex

Goings on in Dedham’s baptisms

Posted on 28 July, 2018 by Helen Barrell

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...

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