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Tag: Lawshall

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...

Suffolk

Lawshall & The Gunpowder Plot

Posted on 5 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Everyone knows about Guy Fawkes, the Catholic Yorkshire man [1]Some might claim, Somerset man, but that is Robert Parsons, who came from outside Bridgwater, all...

History/Sources/Suffolk

Lawshall: of private baptisms and misgotten infants

Posted on 12 August, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Hogarth’s depiction of Tristram Shandy’s home baptism. The other week, I started to transcribe the parish registers for Lawshall in Suffolk, startin...

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