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Tag: 17th century

Essex/Transcriptions

Copford baptisms

Posted on 14 July, 2024 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 900 baptisms for Copford, Essex, from 1558-1700, now online! I’m transcribing the earliest register, from 1558 to 1760, so check back for more Copf...

Suffolk/Transcriptions

More Kersey baptisms!

Posted on 8 June, 2023 by Helen Barrell

Over 1,000 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1631 to 1711 are now online!

Suffolk/Transcriptions

Boxford update

Posted on 30 September, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Suffolk/Transcriptions

More Barking baptisms!

Posted on 5 July, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Barking, Suffolk (including Needham Market and Darmsden) from 1595-1615 now available!

Suffolk/Transcriptions

Barking burials now online!

Posted on 24 June, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Over 1,000 burials now available for Barking, Suffolk, from 1568-1616. Thousands more to follow, up to 1766!

Essex/Transcriptions

Harwich marriages update

Posted on 29 October, 2021 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 1,000 marriages for Harwich added, covering 1560-1665. These transcriptions include people from Essex, Suffolk, Harwich, and even Newcastle!

Essex

Mistley and the Witchfinder

Posted on 30 October, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I knew I would come across the burial of Matthew Hopkins, “witchfinder general”, when I came to transcribe Mistley‘s earliest parish register....

Essex

Was your ancestor married by a witchfinder?

Posted on 29 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Well… sort of…. During the Commonwealth, from the time of the 1653 Marriage Act to the Restoration in 1660, marriages weren’t performed by cle...

Essex

Talk: Wivenhoe’s epidemics

Posted on 7 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Just a quick note – I’m giving a talk for the Wivenhoe History Group at the William Loveless Hall in Wivenhoe on Wednesday 8th July at 7.30pm. All a...

Essex/Uncategorized

August 1666 – a bad time to be a sailor?

Posted on 3 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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...

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