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Parish register transcriptions

Lawshall, Suffolk I have, at last finished transcribing all the fiche that I have for Lawshall, All Saints' church. Coverage is baptisms 1563-1775, marriages 1559-1762 and burials 1558-1771. I have now started to transcribe Bures St. Mary (1559-1776), which spans the River Stour, so manages to be in both Essex and Suffolk at the same time. It's technically in Suffolk (the parish registers are held by the Suffolk Record Office), and the church is on the Suffolk-side of the river.

West Bergholt, Essex I'm still at it with the early register for West Bergholt, so haven't uploaded any new transcriptions for this parish yet, but they are definitely on their way!

Ramsey, Essex Transcriptions are now online from 1802-1860 (baptisms) and 1802-1864 (burials). Marriages 1754-1837 can be searched at FreeREG - but they will appear on my Ramsey page soon. I'm currently working through the earliest surviving register, from 1645-1801, so those will start to go online in a few weeks'.

Langenhoe, Essex Transcriptions now online from 1660-1837 for baptisms, marriages and burials. Please note that the coverage is a bit shaky from the 1600s to the mid-1700s. Lots of entries appear to have gone missing for that period. If you compare it to the names that appear in wills and in the Hearth Tax returns for Langenhoe, you can see how many entries have been lost, which is a great shame. But we should be glad for what has survived!

Frinton, Essex Marriages 1762-1860 are now online (transcribed by Arny Webb). This covers the period 1754-1837, but three anomalous post-1837 marriages have crept in by accident. Frinton was a tiny place in days of yore - there's only 25 marriages! This was before it became an upper-crust seaside resort, where Edward VIII used to visit with his missus, when he was Prince of Wales. Apparently he could be seen mowing the lawn, thus destroying his playboy image in one fell swoop.

Salcot, Essex Burials 1813-1837 now online (transcribed by Arny Webb).


Blog

A Birmingham mystery: is this brick really 132 years old? I wrote this on Valentine's Day. What better way to celebrate the feast day of patron saint of engaged couples (and beekeepers, weirdly)  than by writing a blog about a brick. I can't help it, I'm the daughter of a builder.

August 1666 - a bad time to be sailor? Nine sailors were buried in Ramsey in August 1666. But why? Was there a storm, or was it war?


History news

As much as that might sound like a contradiction in terms!

Suffolk Record Office have joined Twitter. Follow them @KeyToThePast

My stepmum found this wonderful cine film made of Colchester in the late 1970s, courtesy of the East Anglian Film Archive. It's a walk down Memory Lane (and Eld Lane - ho-ho), and what you may find interesting too is the narrator's north-east Essex accent (although that said, he sounds like my Dad). Do have a rummage about - there's gems, such as this footage from October 1914 of children queuing up outside a cinema in Colchester, with adults trying to squeeze past, and patriotic war posters looming behind them.

Very interesting new database from the National Archives: England's Immigrants 1330-1550. It contains information on 65,000 people who lived in England and had come from abroad. You can search by name but also by place - as you might imagine, there's a lot of immigrants in Colchester and Harwich (in fact, the marriages for Harwich in the 1700s feature lots of Dutch people!), but there's also people living in much smaller places, such as Elmstead, where they may very well have been the only non-English person. Food for thought.

Seeing as it's National Book Day, I shall tell you that I am still toiling away over Poison Panic. The news is that the cover will be ready soon, which is quite exciting. Rest assured that I shall include it in my newsletter when it's done.


Best wishes,
Helen.

 
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