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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...

Essex

Double women in Weeley

Posted on 26 October, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Along with the notes in Weeley’s register showing that people having civil marriages during the Commonwealth were sometimes backing it up with a church we...

Essex

Black History Month – Harwich and Boreham

Posted on 5 October, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex/Suffolk

Free Findmypast weekend Friday 18th to Monday 21st September

Posted on 16 September, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Hurrah for free stuff! If you’ve ever been curious as to what you might discover about your ancestors on Findmypast, then now’s your chance, with th...

Essex

Talk: Wivenhoe’s epidemics

Posted on 7 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex

Caught by surprise in Little Bromley

Posted on 16 June, 2015 by Helen Barrell

As you might have noticed, notes in parish registers fascinate me. One I came across the other day seemed to pack quite a story into just one sentence. In the e...

Essex

Elizabeth Salter, Lady Cowdray or… some monkeys?

Posted on 26 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Whilst researching the Cardinall family, I got slightly sidetracked with Thomas Bowes’ family. In 1603, Charles Cardinall, widowed, married Bridget Bowes,...

Essex/Suffolk

Video: You say Austin, I say Alston – Essex and Suffolk accents

Posted on 8 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

An interesting note from 1745 in West Bergholt‘s parish register shows us that the vicar got muddled up with some of his parishioners’ surnames. Und...

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