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...
Category: Transcriptions
Update – Halstead St Andrew baptisms
Nearly 2,500 baptisms and nearly 2,000 burials for St Andrew’s church, Halstead, now added – from 1813-1844.
Fifth wife! George Butler’s unlucky love-life
While transcribing the marriages for Kirby-le-Soken, I found a surprising note left in the margin by the vicar: 5th wife! Buried 20th March 1831. This was the m...
Updates – Lawford, Manningtree – and some wills
Hello all, Another update to day. Nearly 400 marriages from Lawford‘s earliest register, from 1560-1753. A few burials for Manningtree Wesleyan Methodist ...
An epidemic in Brightlingsea, 1803
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...
Updates – Lawford
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...