Baptisms, marriages and burials for Holton St Mary, Suffolk – on the edge of the Dedham Vale – now on this site from 1568-1814.
Holton St Mary transcriptions now available!
Site updates
Hello all! Happy New Year.
I’ve been very busy lately, but I’ve updated the Poor Law page (adding some new records, as well as ditching the PDFs and making it easier to use!), and I’ve also added nearly 1,000 baptisms for Harwich, from 1601-1625. They include the family of Christopher Jones, captain of the Mayflower. You can search on FreeREG for far more records than are on here as it takes time to convert the transcriptions to spreadsheets.
I’m currently transcribing Barking, Suffolk, from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s. It includes Needham Market, so it’s a very busy parish. The transcriptions can be searched on FreeREG but as ever, information about gaps etc can be found on my parish page.
And… if you’re stuck on your research, or you need an old document transcribed, I can help! Just get in touch, and I’ll give you a quote based on the amount and complexity of the work.
Harwich baptisms update!
Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Harwich from 1559-1600 now added to Essex & Suffolk Surnames!
Harwich marriages update
Nearly 1,000 marriages for Harwich added, covering 1560-1665. These transcriptions include people from Essex, Suffolk, Harwich, and even Newcastle!
Another update for Frating, Essex
I’ve just added over 200 marriages from the earlier Frating register, bringing transcriptions of Frating marriages from 1560-1837. And that’s all for now from Frating. Stay tuned for more transcriptions from Harwich and further afield!
Early baptisms for Frating now online!
Nearly 500 baptisms for Frating, Essex, from 1560 to 1694, now transcribed!
It was all going well until the vicar decided to write everything in Latin…
I’m currently transcribing the earliest register for Harwich in Essex, which starts in 1559. It began well, but someone with bad handwriting took over a few years in, then I had to deal with bad handwriting and faded pages. But once that was out of the way, I had nice clear ink and clear handwriting. Wonderful! It was all going well, and then…
…the vicar decided to write everything in Latin.
I got a C for GCSE Latin, which isn’t a grade I’m proud of, but at least that, plus French and Spanish lessons means that I’m not as foxed as I might otherwise be. It’s fairly obvious that “baptizata fuit” or “baptizata est” means “was baptised”. Other terms might crop up, such as conjuncti fuerant, “were joined in marriage” (hence “conjugal”), “nupti erant,” were married (hence “nuptials”), “uxorem duxit” – “he took to wife” (“the farmer takes a wife”). And once the baptisms and marriages are done and dusted, we end up “sepultus” or “sepulta” – buried.
What can be quite difficult is the fact that the names are all Latinised! So here’s my run-down of Latinised names and what to look out for:
Continue reading →Great Clacton baptisms update
Over 1,600 baptisms added for Great Clacton between 1711-1785. There’s now over 5,000 baptisms for the parish on this site!
Great Clacton update
Nearly 2,000 burials for Great Clacton from 1544-1710 now at Essex & Suffolk Surnames! More to follow.
The Hubbards of Bovills Hall
I’m currently transcribing Little Clacton’s parish register. When I spotted Hubbards in the register, my interest was piqued as my 12 x great-grandfather, Ralph Starling, had been married to Margaret Tendring, and Margaret’s first husband was called Richard Hubbard. Her second husband, John Thurston, had lived in Frinton, so I wondered if there was a connection between Margaret’s first husband, and the Hubbards in Little Clacton.
I can’t find any obvious links between Margaret’s husband and the Little Clacton Hubbards, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a link somewhere. So here’s what I’ve found out about them.
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