Brightlingsea

An epidemic in Brightlingsea, 1803

Posted on 6 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’m finishing off the transcription of Brightlingsea‘s burials, in a register covering 1765-1812. It’s not a very interesting register, and is...

Essex/Sources/Transcriptions

Updates – Lawford

Posted on 3 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’ve finished transcribing the earlier parish register (1558-1764) for Lawford in north-east Essex. It’s right by the Suffolk border, so you might f...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)/Essex

Guest blog: A Titanic survivor on the 1939 Register

Posted on 4 July, 2016 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Findmypast. My great-grandma’s cousin survived the Titanic – did he find peace afterwards, or was his life full of drama?

Documents/Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)/Essex

Guest blog: Multiple wives and a missing daughter: Scandalous family secrets in the 1939 Register

Posted on 16 March, 2016 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Findmypast. What happened to my grandma’s uncle, Ernest Baden Powell Field? And why did his marriages not quite match up with what I foun...

Essex

More unfortunate ways to die in parish registers

Posted on 22 January, 2016 by Helen Barrell

A while ago I compiled all the unfortunate causes of death to be found in the parish registers for Beaumont-cum-Moze – perhaps the most unfortunate was Wi...

Essex

Part 2: knock down brick walls with the 1939 Register

Posted on 22 December, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Part two of my 1939 Register guest blog for Find My Past: An intrepid cocoa-buyer, and Uncle Bill’s fate.

Sources

Knock down family tree brick walls with the 1939 Register

Posted on 8 December, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Check out Find My Past for my guest blog about family tree brick walls I demolished with The 1939 Register. Without it, I would’ve struggled to trace Uncl...