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Snippets of life in Langham, part 2

Posted on 15 February, 2018 by Helen Barrell

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 ...

Essex

Snippets of life in Langham, part 1

Posted on 10 February, 2018 by Helen Barrell

There’s some very interesting notes in Langham‘s parish registers, which revive moments in the lives of Langham’s long-dead inhabitants. This ...

Essex/Transcriptions/Updates

Update: Bradfield

Posted on 26 November, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 700 burials added for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695.

Essex/Transcriptions

Update: Toppesfield baptisms

Posted on 22 November, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Toppesfield, Essex, from 1813-March 1844 now online.

Essex/Transcriptions/Updates

Update: Toppesfield

Posted on 17 November, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Transcriptions of over 200 marriages for Toppesfield, Essex, from 1813-1843, now available.

Essex/Transcriptions

Update: Bradfield

Posted on 28 October, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’ve finished transcribing the earliest register for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695. I’ll be adding spreadsheets of baptisms, burials and marri...

Essex/Sources/Transcriptions

The Bridges family of Lawford and John Constable’s portrait

Posted on 9 September, 2017 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex/Memorial inscriptions

Where was East Donyland’s old church?

Posted on 22 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex/Transcriptions/Updates

Update – Halstead St Andrew baptisms

Posted on 17 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 2,500 baptisms and nearly 2,000 burials for St Andrew’s church, Halstead, now added – from 1813-1844.

Essex/Transcriptions

Fifth wife! George Butler’s unlucky love-life

Posted on 14 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

While transcribing the marriages for Kirby-le-Soken, I found a surprising note left in the margin by the vicar: 5th wife! Buried 20th March 1831. This was the m...

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