Copford baptisms
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...
Tag: 17th century
More Kersey baptisms!
Over 1,000 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1631 to 1711 are now online!
More Barking baptisms!
Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Barking, Suffolk (including Needham Market and Darmsden) from 1595-1615 now available!
Barking burials now online!
Over 1,000 burials now available for Barking, Suffolk, from 1568-1616. Thousands more to follow, up to 1766!
Harwich marriages update
Nearly 1,000 marriages for Harwich added, covering 1560-1665. These transcriptions include people from Essex, Suffolk, Harwich, and even Newcastle!
Mistley and the Witchfinder
I knew I would come across the burial of Matthew Hopkins, “witchfinder general”, when I came to transcribe Mistley‘s earliest parish register....
Was your ancestor married by a witchfinder?
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...
Talk: Wivenhoe’s epidemics
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...
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...