Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Bildeston, Suffolk, from 1560-1610, now online! More transcriptions for this busy wool town to follow.

Over 1,300 burials for East Bergholt in Suffolk, from 1682 to 1727.

And that’s the last of my East Bergholt transcriptions. Look out for more transcriptions from Birch in Essex, plus many more Suffolk transcriptions!

The image above shows all that’s left of the tomb of Anna Parker of East Bergholt, who died in 1656. She was the wife of Henry Parker and the daughter of William Cardinall and Mary Derehaugh. The camel on the right was the Cardinall’s crest. The bear is presumbly that of the Parker’s. You can just about see the remains of her painted coat of arms in the middle, with a huge number of quarterings, but sadly they’re barely visible now.

Marriages from 1661-1680 for East Bergholt, Suffolk, now online, bringing you nearly 900 marriages for this busy wool town from 1661 to 1804.

More East Bergholt burials online – from 1656 to 1682. It was a busy place in the seventeenth century, with 1,200 burials in less than three decades!

The image shows the memorial brass for Robert Alefounder in St Mary’s church, East Bergholt, who died in 1639. Unfortunately, he passed away before the surviving records for the parish began, but it’s a brilliant image showing how a wealthy man of the period would’ve dressed.