Kersey baptisms
Over 800 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, now online from 1763-1812. That makes over 3,000 from 1561-1812! More burials and marriages to follow.
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Boxford, Suffolk – 1557-1760 now online!
Thousands of baptisms, marriages and burials for Boxford in Suffolk now online from 1557 to 1760.
Pinching out sweet peas
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with family history, other than the fact that my grandparents grew sweet peas and I wanted to grow some too. My reason for...
Updates to “Goings on in Dedham”
Back in July last year, I was transcribing Dedham’s second oldest surviving parish register and found some interesting goings on among the baptisms. You c...
“An Aethiopian of Ginny”
Jean Jeggo, transcribing Gosfield’s baptism register for FreeREG, found the following entry: Thomas an Aethiopian of Ginny in Africa beeing about twelve y...
Suffolk parish register transcriptions at Findmypast
You may or may not be aware that there’s a lot of Suffolk parish register transcriptions available at commercial genealogy site Findmypast. They have a gr...
Update: Lawford
Over 700 baptisms for Lawford, Essex, now added, covering 1764-1812. This means there’s now nearly 3,000 baptisms on this site for Lawford, from 1588 to 1...
Events
Saturday 3rd December 2016, 10am-2pm What: Book-signing at St Mary’s Christmas St Nicholas Fayre Where: St Mary’s Church, Bearwood, B66 4BX Entry fee: None! Jus...
Guest blog: How a 100-year-old letter sparked a discovery in the 1939 Register
A guest blog for Findmypast. A letter written by my great-great-grandmother on Armistice Day in 1918 was full of clues for identifying my family. Would it unloc...
August 1666 – a bad time to be a sailor?
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...