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Snippets of life in Langham, part 2

Posted on 15 February, 2018 by Helen Barrell

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 ...

Essex

Snippets of life in Langham, part 1

Posted on 10 February, 2018 by Helen Barrell

There’s some very interesting notes in Langham‘s parish registers, which revive moments in the lives of Langham’s long-dead inhabitants. This ...

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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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Did Jane Austen fake a marriage?

Posted on 21 March, 2017 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex

More unfortunate ways to die in parish registers

Posted on 22 January, 2016 by Helen Barrell

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...

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

Was your ancestor married by a witchfinder?

Posted on 29 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Well… sort of…. During the Commonwealth, from the time of the 1653 Marriage Act to the Restoration in 1660, marriages weren’t performed by cle...

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