Video: You say Austin, I say Alston – Essex and Suffolk accents
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...
Category: Suffolk
Lawshall & The Gunpowder Plot
Everyone knows about Guy Fawkes, the Catholic Yorkshire man [1]Some might claim, Somerset man, but that is Robert Parsons, who came from outside Bridgwater, all...
Minors, cold feet and bigamists – the secrets of East Bergholt’s banns register
Banns registers aren’t usually considered that important for family history research – after all, we only need to look at marriage registers, becaus...
Lawshall: of private baptisms and misgotten infants
Hogarth’s depiction of Tristram Shandy’s home baptism. The other week, I started to transcribe the parish registers for Lawshall in Suffolk, startin...