Over 500 marriages for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1564 to 1754 now online!
It’s worth having a look, even if you don’t have family from Kersey, as before 1754, couples sometimes married in very unexpected places! There’s even a man from Fingringhoe in Essex in this collection of transcriptions.
Exactly 900 burials for Stoke-by-Nayland just added to the site, from 1558-1600! More to follow.
Nearly 700 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1711-1762 added to the site. That makes nearly 3,000 baptisms for Kersey from 1561. And there’s more to come!
Over 1,000 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1631 to 1711 are now online!
In April, I paid a visit to Kersey in Suffolk. Like many Suffolk villages, it’s picturesque and full of ancient timber-framed houses, but Kersey is slightly different as its main street runs down and up the sides of a valley – quite unusual for a country that’s famously not very hilly. A ford runs across the main street, and at one end the church is perched above the village on a hill.
There’s some interesting memorials inside the church, and a large number of legible headstones in the churchyard. Some more legible than others, I noticed…
Continue reading →Over 1,000 burials for Kersey, Suffolk, now transcribed, from 1563-1670.
Over 2,000 baptisms from 1558-1626, and over 1,200 marriages from 1558-1754 now online for Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk. The village is right on the border with Essex, not too far from Colchester. So if your Essex ancestors aren’t appearing in Essex registers, give the Stoke-by-Nayland transcriptions a try. There’s quite a few Colchester couples in the marriages, as well as people from Boxted, Dedham, and other nearby Essex parishes.
Sixty photos of memorials at Boxford St Mary church, including some headstones outside, and all of the memorials inside.
Baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1561 to 1630 now online! And there’s more on the way.
Thousands of baptisms, marriages and burials for Boxford in Suffolk now online from 1557 to 1760.
