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...
Category: Essex
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 ...
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...
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...
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...