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Tag: marriages
Barking – more marriages!
Nearly 700 marriages for Barking, Suffolk, from 1667 to 1753. These transcriptions haven’t been available before! Barking included Darmsden and Needham Ma...
Harwich marriages update
Nearly 1,000 marriages for Harwich added, covering 1560-1665. These transcriptions include people from Essex, Suffolk, Harwich, and even Newcastle!
Another update for Frating, Essex
I’ve just added over 200 marriages from the earlier Frating register, bringing transcriptions of Frating marriages from 1560-1837. And that’s all fo...
Fifth wife! George Butler’s unlucky love-life
While transcribing the marriages for Kirby-le-Soken, I found a surprising note left in the margin by the vicar: 5th wife! Buried 20th March 1831. This was the m...
Did Jane Austen fake a marriage?
Ahhh, see, I told you that notes left in parish registers are endlessly fascinating! Not only is it possible (at least I think so) that Charlotte Brontë got the...
Parish registers in Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White”
*contains spoilers* If you’ve ever read The Woman in White, then you’ll know that all the mystery and obfuscation, the swapping of people drugged on...
Minors, cold feet and bigamists – the secrets of East Bergholt’s banns register
Banns registers aren’t usually considered that important for family history research – after all, we only need to look at marriage registers, becaus...