More Kersey baptisms!
Over 1,000 baptisms for Kersey, Suffolk, from 1631 to 1711 are now online!
Tag: 17th century
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...