Belstead baptisms and burials
Nearly 2,000 baptisms and burials for Belstead, Suffolk – just outside Ipswich – from 1538-1812 online now. Marriages 1539-1857 to follow!
Tag: parish registers
Updates to “Goings on in Dedham”
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...
Goings on in Dedham’s baptisms
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...
Snippets of life in Langham, part 2
Another blog based on the notes in Langham‘s parish register. A certaine person When Nathaniel Hinds got married in 1702, rather than just state that his ...
Snippets of life in Langham, part 1
There’s some very interesting notes in Langham‘s parish registers, which revive moments in the lives of Langham’s long-dead inhabitants. This ...
Update: Bradfield
Nearly 700 burials added for Bradfield, Essex, from 1564 to 1695.
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...
More unfortunate ways to die in parish registers
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...
Mistley and the Witchfinder
I knew I would come across the burial of Matthew Hopkins, “witchfinder general”, when I came to transcribe Mistley‘s earliest parish register....
Georgian “Cluedo” in Manningtree’s parish register
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...