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Tag: Wivenhoe

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At sea & in the air: Wivenhoe’s Green boys

Posted on 11 November, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I’ve mentioned Grandma’s photo album before, when it turned out that the unnamed WW1 soldier posing in a Brighton studio was in fact her Uncle Bill....

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Talk: Wivenhoe’s epidemics

Posted on 7 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Just a quick note – I’m giving a talk for the Wivenhoe History Group at the William Loveless Hall in Wivenhoe on Wednesday 8th July at 7.30pm. All a...

Essex

Caught by surprise in Little Bromley

Posted on 16 June, 2015 by Helen Barrell

As you might have noticed, notes in parish registers fascinate me. One I came across the other day seemed to pack quite a story into just one sentence. In the e...

Essex

The Wivenhoe Poltergeist

Posted on 31 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

What I’m about to write has nothing to do with genealogy, although it’s something that happened to me and a friend of mine in Wivenhoe, so it’...

Essex

Black History Month – some finds in Wivenhoe’s register

Posted on 23 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Growing up in Wivenhoe, I probably saw a greater mix of people from around the world than had I lived in a town of the same size that wasn’t anywhere near...

Essex

The Sunderland men who came to Essex

Posted on 1 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Photo by Cindy Lilley. I’ve nearly finished transcribing the baptisms and burials register for Wivenhoe St. Mary the Virgin, 1695-1751. It’s not unu...

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