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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’...

History

The Griffin family

Posted on 10 June, 2020 by Helen Barrell

I decided on a whim to make use of the Buckinghamshire records on Findmypast and research my Griffin ancestors who come from that county. I wasn’t sure I&...

Essex/History

Interview on BBC Essex

Posted on 8 April, 2018 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex/History/Memorial inscriptions/Sources

Suckling’s Essex

Posted on 24 March, 2018 by Helen Barrell

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...

History/Sources

Guest blog: The Mystery of the Sailor in the River

Posted on 26 October, 2017 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Wivenhoe’s History about a sailor who drowned in the River Colne in 1850. But all was not as it seemed. (A shorter version of this text w...

Essex/History/Transcriptions

An epidemic in Brightlingsea, 1803

Posted on 6 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’m finishing off the transcription of Brightlingsea‘s burials, in a register covering 1765-1812. It’s not a very interesting register, and is...

History

Interview: John Broom, author of “Fight the Good Fight”

Posted on 15 February, 2016 by Helen Barrell

With the First World War 100th anniversary commemorations ongoing, I’m welcoming John Broom, author of Fight the Good Fight: Voice of Faith from the First...

History

Workers’ Memorial Day – “Remember the dead, fight for the living.”

Posted on 28 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

There was a terrible accident at the ropery on Wivenhoe High Street on 19th February 1855, when a boiler exploded. It killed three lads – Henry Browne (ag...

History

A witchfinder, an admiral, P. G. Wodehouse, the Boleyns and me

Posted on 26 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Strange things start to happen if you can trace your family back far enough, and if you can find a thread which is, let’s be honest… posh. In trying...

History

Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch

Posted on 3 December, 2014 by Helen Barrell

This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF –  40KB)

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