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Essex/Suffolk

Video: You say Austin, I say Alston – Essex and Suffolk accents

Posted on 8 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

An interesting note from 1745 in West Bergholt‘s parish register shows us that the vicar got muddled up with some of his parishioners’ surnames. Und...

Essex/Uncategorized

August 1666 – a bad time to be a sailor?

Posted on 3 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I’m currently transcribing the earliest register for Ramsey St. Michael in Essex. Although the very early register is lost, entries survive from 1645 onwa...

Essex

Poison Panic: arsenic deaths in 1840s Essex

Posted on 12 February, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Published on 30th June 2016. UK: Pre-order now directly from the publisher (Pen & Sword), or Waterstones and Amazon. USA: Pre-order from Barnes & Noble ...

Essex

Interesting finds in West Bergholt’s parish registers

Posted on 2 January, 2015 by Helen Barrell

One of the pleasures of transcribing parish registers are the intriguing marginalia that turn up in them sometimes. I’m yet to find a pre-1813 parchment r...

Essex

The Wivenhoe Poltergeist

Posted on 31 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

What I’m about to write has nothing to do with genealogy, although it’s something that happened to me and a friend of mine in Wivenhoe, so it’...

Essex

Black History Month – some finds in Wivenhoe’s register

Posted on 23 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Growing up in Wivenhoe, I probably saw a greater mix of people from around the world than had I lived in a town of the same size that wasn’t anywhere near...

Essex

Unfortunate ways to die in Beaumont-cum-Moze, 1576-1865

Posted on 7 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Dying is rather unfortunate anyway, but in Beaumont-cum-Moze, the causes of death are given far more often than they are in other burial registers that I’...

Essex

The Sunderland men who came to Essex

Posted on 1 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Photo by Cindy Lilley. I’ve nearly finished transcribing the baptisms and burials register for Wivenhoe St. Mary the Virgin, 1695-1751. It’s not unu...

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