Prudence, the unhappy bride
TW: suicide I’m currently transcribing Little Clacton’s earliest register, which survives from 1538. On 15 August 1592, Clement Fenn, a single man, ...
Category: Essex
Great Clacton updates
Lots of Great Clacton updates coming your way! First of all, marriages from 1544 to 1710.
Update for Colchester St Leonard’s in the Hythe
Over 2,000 baptisms and over 1,500 burials for Colchester St Leonard’s at the Hythe, from 1813 to the 1870s.
The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it
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...
Some notes on the Mannock family
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’...
Don’t diss Frinton’s church!
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...
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 ...
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...