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 ...
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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...
Double women in Weeley
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...
Black History Month – Harwich and Boreham
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...
Was your ancestor married by a witchfinder?
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...