“An Aethiopian of Ginny”
Jean Jeggo, transcribing Gosfield’s baptism register for FreeREG, found the following entry: Thomas an Aethiopian of Ginny in Africa beeing about twelve y...
Tag: Black History Month
Black History Month – Harwich and Boreham
It’s time for some parish register finds which show black people living in Essex hundreds of years ago. Last year, it was coincidentally in October that I...
Black History Month – some finds in Wivenhoe’s register
Growing up in Wivenhoe, I probably saw a greater mix of people from around the world than had I lived in a town of the same size that wasn’t anywhere near...