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Updates to “Goings on in Dedham”

Posted on 16 May, 2019 by Helen Barrell

Back in July last year, I was transcribing Dedham’s second oldest surviving parish register and found some interesting goings on among the baptisms. You c...

Essex

Goings on in Dedham’s baptisms

Posted on 28 July, 2018 by Helen Barrell

Most of the children who appear in Dedham‘s baptism register in the early/mid-eighteenth century are born to married parents, with only a few illegitimate...

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Update: Bradfield

Posted on 26 November, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 700 burials added for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695.

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Update: Toppesfield baptisms

Posted on 22 November, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Toppesfield, Essex, from 1813-March 1844 now online.

Essex

The Fingringhoe skeleton

Posted on 9 August, 2016 by Helen Barrell

Have you heard “The Reclusive Skeleton of Fingringhoe” episode of Punt PI? In this Radio 4 series, comedian Steve Punt puzzles his way around cases ...

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.

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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...

Essex

At sea & in the air: Wivenhoe’s Green boys

Posted on 11 November, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I’ve mentioned Grandma’s photo album before, when it turned out that the unnamed WW1 soldier posing in a Brighton studio was in fact her Uncle Bill....

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

Georgian “Cluedo” in Manningtree’s parish register

Posted on 29 October, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Well this is a very odd thing… a plan for the ground floor of a house, from Manningtree‘s register covering 1695-1775. It looks bizarrely like a boa...

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