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Category Archives: Suffolk
FindMyPast.co.uk boosts Suffolk baptism records by 141,500
FindMyPast.co.uk has added 450,000 more parish register entries to its collection – including 141,500 Suffolk baptisms. Continue reading
Posted in News, Suffolk
Tagged Baptisms, FindMyPast, Myko Clelland, Suffolk, Suffolk Family History Society
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My Top 5 Genealogy ‘to-dos’ for 2013
My top 5 genealogy things I hope to achieve in 2013 – a mixture of visits, writing and demolishing those research brick walls. Continue reading
Posted in Botesdale, Burnell, Crime, Seasonal, Wright, Yarrow
Tagged 2013, Abercorn Place, author, Botesdale, brickwalls, Daisy Burnell, Elizabeth Wright, Elizabeth Yarrow, Genealogy, Henry Bowers, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, new year resolutions, research, time travel, to-do, writing a book, writing-up
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Elveden and the Brightwells
One of the family trees that I am currently climbing has a bit of an evolutionary name. The most recent incarnations in the late-19th century are ‘Brightle’, ‘Brightley’ and ‘Brightly’ as found in Littleport and Little Downham fenland, Cambridgeshire. The … Continue reading
Posted in Brightwell, Elveden, Farmers, Genealogy, Littleport, Suffolk
Tagged Ann Church, Brightle, Brightley, Brightly, Brightwell, Bury Record Office, Elden, Elveden, Gathercole, Genuki, George Burton, Harper, John Brightly, John Brightwell, Littleport, Martha Bacon, Mary Crane, Robert Brightwell, Suffolk, Turner
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There’s something about Mary…
A few weeks ago I wrote about my Clarke/Bailey family at Hartismere Union Workhouse. In that posting, I mentioned that whilst I had located the Bailey/Clarke family group, the wife (my gtx4 grandmother – Mary Bailey née Clarke) was missing … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Crime, Family Tree, Genealogy, Suffolk
Tagged 1841, assault, Black Sheep Sunday, Botesdale, Caroline Clarke, child abuse, children, court, cruelty, disease, Elizabeth Smith, Emma Bailey, flogging, gaol, Guildford Hunt, guilty, hard labour, Hartismere Union, ill-use, ipswich, Ipswich Journal, Ipswich Record Office, jail, John Thornton, jury, Louisa Bailey, malnourished, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, mistreating, neglect, Overseer, physical abuse, prison, punishment, RootsChat.com, Stanton, step-mother, Suffolk, The Cock Inn, Thomas Palfrey, violence, William Bailey, William Clarke
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The Workhouse
It’s unlikely that anyone would have wanted to go to the workhouse unless they’d lost all hope of finding support elsewhere.. but after two illegitimate children (Caroline and Edward Clarke), and an 1838 marriage to widower Mr William Bailey, Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Littleport, Suffolk
Tagged Alfred Bailey, Amelia Bailey, Back Hills, Caroline Clarke, Castle Hill, Charles Bailey, Edward Bailey, Edward Clarke, Ellis Bailey, Eye, Fanny Bailey, Francis Bailey, Gressenhall, Hartismere, Hartismere Union, Henry Flowers, Ling House of Industry, Louisa Bailey, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, Mildenhall Road, Philip Bailey, poverty, William Bailey, workhouse
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Can’t see the Woods for the trees
Caroline Clarke, my paternal great, great, great grandmother, had presented me a problem for many years, but 2009 appears to have ended the mystery of who she was and where she came from. After deciding to unravel the mystery of … Continue reading
