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Grass widows in Stoke-by-Nayland

Posted on 30 December, 2022 by Helen Barrell

I’m currently transcribing Stoke-by-Nayland’s parish registers, and I was rather confused by a marriage that took place on 23rd July 1622 between: A...

Essex/Sources

Essex marriage licences – online, for free!

Posted on 29 August, 2022 by Helen Barrell

And here’s my tips on how to navigate them.

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)/Sources/Transcriptions

Rotterdam parish registers – with bonus Brits!

Posted on 10 July, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Quite by accident, I stumbled over the Stadsarchief Rotterdam site. It’s definitely worth having a look on here if you have merchant ancestors who go off-...

Documents/Essex/Sources

The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it

Posted on 23 November, 2020 by Helen Barrell

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...

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/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/Sources/Transcriptions

Updates – Lawford

Posted on 3 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’ve finished transcribing the earlier parish register (1558-1764) for Lawford in north-east Essex. It’s right by the Suffolk border, so you might f...

Sources

Did Jane Austen fake a marriage?

Posted on 21 March, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Ahhh, see, I told you that notes left in parish registers are endlessly fascinating! Not only is it possible (at least I think so) that Charlotte Brontë got the...

Documents/Sources

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017

Posted on 13 November, 2016 by Helen Barrell

News! I’m doing a talk at Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017 at the NEC in Birmingham. In “Turn your family tree surprises into a book”, I...

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