Hello, I have recently discovered that my GG grandfather Benjamin ROLFE (1807) could be buried in Sudbury cemetery. Does anyone know if there is a list of burials in this cemetery and whether it can be accessed from Essex please? I do not know for sure which year he died at this stage but I have narrowed it down to around 1875. I have the 1851 census for Norfolk and the 1881 so could do some look ups in exchange for help in Suffolk area. Thank you Jenny Plumb Essex, England

Hi My greatgrandfather was Henry MARTIN born c1858 Ballingdon Essex married Elizabeth NEWMAN in Sudbury 1877. Henrys father was a Thomas martin born unknown but had died before 1877. Any connections on the MARTIN side? I have a number of leads on the NEWMAN side. Kevin Martin

I have a small number of stray BALMERs in East Anglia and wonder whether anybody has any further information on them: 8 Oct 1629 James BALMER married Jane CARVER, St Edmunds, Norwich 20 Aug 1651 Richard LINCOLN married Joan BALMORE or BALAMORE, Litcham, Norfolk 4 Dec 1687 Thomas BALMOR married Mary COOPER, Swaffham, Norfolk Nov 1730 Mary daughter of Henry and Mary BARMER baptised, St Augustine, Norwich 27 Apr 1796 Sarah daughter of James BALLIMER and Mary BARWICK baptised, Bradfield, Norfolk 24 Aug 1800 James BAMER married Mary HOWARD, Great Yarmouth 19 Jul 1807 William BALMER married Sarah WADE, Ditchingham, Norfolk 14 Nov 1808 Thomas BOWLES married Judith BARMER, Great Yarmouth about 1815 Thomas BALMER born Malford, Suffolk 3 Oct 1840 John son of Samuel GIBBS married Sarah daughter of Noah BALMER, Hemsby, Norfolk about 1862 Elizabeth BALOMER born Yarmouth, Norfolk and living there in 1881. Any help will be gratefully acknowledged. Jim Balmer Northumberland & Durham Balmer families at: http://freespace.virgin.net/jim.balmer/nd.htm

Hello Listers Can anyone help me with the missing details on these three ancestors below Please! 1. Robert Rosier b 1703 Brettenham, Suffolk & Mary Snell b ? where ? They married 8 Sept 1733 Brettenham Suffolk 2. Robert Rosier B ? where ? & Mary Head B ? where ? They married 16 Nov 1758 Hitcham, Suffolk 3 Robert Rosier b? where ? & Sarah Ennals b ? where? They married 13 Oct 1794 Hitcham, Suffolk Many thanks Monique Auckland New Zealand ----------------------------------------------------------------- Researching these Essex & Suffolk surnames: AMBROSE, AMOS, ARTHY/ARTHEE, BAKER, BANTICK/BANTOCK/BANTOFT, BASHAM, BEAUMONT, BIRD, BRAYBROOK(E), BRETT, BULL, BUSS, CHILVER, CHURCH, COE, CROCKETT, CUTTS, DAY, DEATH, DIXEY/DIXIE, DOW, DRIVER, DURRANT, FITCH, GRIMWOOD, HARRINGTON, HISKEY, HOLLOWBREAD, HOWARD, HOW(E), HUM(M), INNES, KEMBALL/KIMBALL (pre 1500), KEMBLE, KIMMINS, LAW(E)S, LONG, LORD, MEDCALF, MEEKIN(G)S, MILLS, MOTT, NUNN, PENTONEY, PORTER, RAMPLIN, RAMPLING, RASH, REDNALL, ROSIER, RUSH, RASHBROOK/RUSHBROOKE, SIMPSON, SMITH, SPARROW, SQUIRRELL,THOMPSON, VINCE, WAKELING, WASS, WELHAM, -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Hallo Everyone - new member joining. My request is possibly a long shot but I will post it anyway. Through my mother (she's 83 yrs old) I have been given some old photographs which belonged to my Grandmother. We have no idea at all who the people are in them, as it seems in olden days they did not name or date them. Anyway there are one or two which were taken in Colchester. One in particular is of a young boy and this one reads on the back...... For Uncle Willie With Harrys love Underneath it has got written HARRY JESSOP 1 year and 8 months old. I myself come from the Allam/Gray family and cannot find out how this fits in. I have researched this name and on the Free BMD have found a Harry Jessop who was born in Sept 1853 at COLCHESTER ESSEX. Does this name ring any bells with anyone out there? or has anyone any connections ? if so would love to hear from you. Its a mystery I would like to solve as the photograph was aobviously important to my family. With Best Regards...Rita ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

Dear listers, I am well into a major project to record UK and Irish Balmer families and seek your help to make the section covering southern Britain and overseas countries as comprehensive as possible. The spelling of the name varies widely across the country and across the centuries, a simplified list including: Bailmer, Balamore, Ballimer, Ballmar, Ballmore, Ballomor, Balma, Balmar, Balmer, Balmere, Balmier, Balmoor, Balmore, Balmour, Balmur, Balmyre, Bamas, Bammer, Bamor, Barimer, Barlmer, Barmer, Barmoor, Barmore, Barramoore, Baulmer, Baumer, Bawmer, Belmer, Boarmore, Bollamore, Bolmer. I ask anybody with knowledge of these families to contact me off-list. The work will initially be posted to the net in seven parts. The first part, covering Northumberland & Durham, is now uploaded at: http://freespace.virgin.net/jim.balmer/nd.htm Balme, Bulmer, Boomer, Bowmer, Bamborough and variants are different families and not included. I look forward to any help you can give, and if I can help you in any way please ask. Jim Balmer

Hello Listers, I recently joined this list and would like to post my interest: PEAD(E), PEDE, PEED(E) et var. If anyone would like to discuss this family, then please email me. Regards, Bruce Gilligan Regina, Canada email: gilligan@math.uregina.ca

Monique, I forgot this for John P. LAWS "john laws" registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

Monique, John P LAWS would be a good source, although he is presently recovering from heart surgery. I am tracking LAW(E)S of the FENS by logging into a spreadsheet all references to LAW(E)S I can find from the region. I presently have 316 entries. Unfortunately, I have concentrated on the time period of the 1800's. The earliest person I have is 1666 and the latest was 1890. What I can tell you is I have found concentrations of LAWS in Lakenheath and Mildenhall in Sfk. I find several Ann LAWS's particularly in Lakenheath between 1742 and 1850. Brenda MASTERS is a researcher that has done allot of work with the LAWS in this area of Suffolk. I have her email at home and can forward this. By the way, I am finding more and more that most of these LAWS of the Fens are related. I have found relation links between these SUffolk LAWS and LAWS in the Norfolk villages of Feltwell, Southery, Hilgay, Methwold and Hockwold Cum Wilton plus Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. If nothing else, check parish records in these villages. Good luck! John Stuart LAWS john@laws.tc Portland, Oregon, USA Hi List I am searching for any info on these Suffolk families. Can anyone help please! My 11th gg grandparents were Anne LAW(E)S born/Chr ? died/bur ? (Who are Anne's Parents & Sibs? & George Rushbrooke b abt 1560 ? Thurston, Sfk They were married 12 Dec 1613 Gt Barton Sfk. They had children. I have (so far) found only one (Elizabeth who married Henry Bantick/Bantock 1633 Woolpit) there may be more ? Can anyone assist me further here ... Thanks Any/all Rushbrooke history, info etc etc will be greatly appreciated. thanks Monique Auckland New Zealand

Hi there I believe a relative of mine is commemorated in the War Cemetery in Great Yarmouth. George CRACKNELL apparently was killed in July 1916, and buried in the cemetery. Would anyone know any more about the Royal (Garrison) Artillery stationed in Great Yarmouth during WW1 and what actions they might have been in, especially around July 1916? TIA Haydn CRACKNELL in Alberta Canada

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> My 11th gg grandparents were Anne Law(e)s born/Chr ? > died/bur ? > (Who are Anne's Parents & Sibs? & George Rushbrooke b abt 1560 ? > Monique > Auckland > New Zealand Hello Monique You might try John Laws who runs the LAW/E/S one-name study > registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk This is registered with the Guild of One-name Studies http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?find=674 He's a very helpful chap and also runs the Law(e)s mailing list Geoffers Charlbury, Oxfordshire

----- Original Message ----- From: <TinaPHull@aol.com> > If anyone has anything they think might be useful please contact me off list > via the website link below. Lots of the surnames you mention appear on the Norfolk Transcription Archive http://www.genealogy.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php3 If you have any problems navigating the site, please ask and I'll led you through it Geoffers Charlbury, Oxfordshire

Hi List I'm searching for information on BRITTON family Originally Suffolk based from the villages of Tattingstone & Bentley In particular any descendants of George BRITTON born 1873 in Tattingstone Robert Edward BRITTON born 1878 in Stowmarket Thanks Chris Bailey Norwich UK

If anyone has anything they think might be useful please contact me off list via the website link below. TIA Tina Researching HULL, TWIN, HARRIS, BRIGHT, SAWARD, RAMSEY, CLOW, DEACON, TOWNSEND, BONES, ALLEN, BROOKS, BURROWS, CHALK, DINES, HOLDSWORTH, YOUNG, STARLING, HOWELL, MARTIN, NEWCOME, REYNOLDS, SPOONER, WOODS <A HREF="http://tinaphull.freeservers.com/Family/Index.htm">http://tinaphull.freeservers.com/Family/Index.htm</A>

Hi listers, I'm new to list and to the area of Suffolk. I have a Thomas Richard Henry PICKETT baptised 12 Jan 1817 Wangford by Southwold Suffolk. his parents are Margaret and Thomas PICKETT and that's all I know so far. Thomas Richard Henry PICKETT married Rebecca CHANDLER in Middlesex on 18th March 1838 and lived in the Middlesex area. His parents Thomas and Margaret were at the wedding in Middlesex and I don't know if they stayed in the area or not. I'm interested in researching Wangford by Southwold? Suffolk and know nothing about the area. I've been to the Suffolk FHS website and tried the IGI. And would very much appreciate any advice. Thank you. Jean Researching, PICKETT Suffolk, Middlesex 1800-1850 CHANDLER Middlesex 1800-1850

I shall be unable to answer any mail from October 8th to October 12th (both dates inclusive). DJ -- Dick of Norwich (U.K.)

----- Original Message ----- From: <AEW91097@aol.com> > Considering that the census information is released every one > hundred years, can any of you recommend a way to research > family going forward from 1901? > > PR's can only help you if families remain in same towns & villages. > All I have are names. And for obvious reasons, I have not found any > relatives in the last known towns. > George Wilson Hello George Tracing forward can be more difficult than going backwards and involves using several sources. To explain, I'll give a very simple example, it can often be more difficult but this is just to illustrate the sort of thing that you can do: Say in the 1881 census you have a chap called George Wilson, occupation given as Saggar maker's bottom knocker, aged 30, married and having two children, Ernest aged 4 and Elizabeth aged 2 I'd start by using Kellys, Post Office, and other directories to see how far forward in time I can trace George Wilson. Directories are usually indexed and simple to use. They'll just mention the head of the house and his address. For the sake of argument, you find George alive in a Norwich directory of 1910, but no trace of him in 1920. He may well be living with family elsewhere, but there's a chance that he died between these dates, it narrows the initial search. Go to the index of wills and admons (Letters of administration granted when there was no will). These are simple to use and the index usually contain enough information to identify whether or not the entry you've found is the one you want. Okay, let's say that you find an entry in the wills index in 1914 for George Wilson, Saggar maker of Norwich, with probate granted to Ernest Wilson (son) of Nottingham. To check that you've got the right George Wilson, go to the GRO deaths index and check that the age ties up with the age from the 1881 census return (using this example, he should be 63-ish) You get a copy of the will and in it George Wilson leaves the bulk of his estate to his children Ernest of 1, High Street, Nottingham and his daughter Elizabeth Smith of 1, Lower Street, Bedford; he also leaves a small amount of money to his grandchildren George Ernest Wilson and Mary Elizabeth Smith. The will was made in 1909. With this, you have some important new information. You know the addresses of his children in 1909, you know the married name of his daughter and so this makes it an awful lot easier to find her marriage. You also have the names of grandchildren and know they were alive in 1909. Don't forget to try local newspapers' obit columns to see if there is any record. Now, go to the directories again and see if you can find Ernest Wilson in 1920. Suppose there's no trace - go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website and see if he died in WW1. You find he died in France in 1916. You might now go to find his marriage, he was born 1877 and had a child by 1909, so the chances are that he married between 1897 and 1908. The marriage gives his wife's name, and she may appear in a street directory. You locate a marriage in 1906 and subsequently find that his son George Ernest was born in 1907. See if you can locate a marriage certificate for George Ernest, start about 1927 and work forward in time. Say that he marries in 1930 to Jane Crowe, important because you now have his wife's maiden name. You can now confidently search the GRO birth index for his children, because since 1917 the mother's maiden name is listed in the index. Pick out all the Wilson entries where the mother's maiden name matches up. You find that he has three children in the GRO index, the first born 1931 in Nottingham, the second 1934 in Birmingham and the third 1937 in Croydon. Just using the index you've tracked his movement around the country. Some libraries keep old telephone directories, see if he turns up in any of them and you'll get an address. Try and find the marriages of his children. You get them and in the first two in 1953 and 1955 the father's name and occupation is given, but in the third in 1960 records the father as George Ernest Wilson (deceased). Okay, George Ernest Wilson appears to have died 1955-1960. Search the wills index and there you find he died in 1959. Are there any notices in the obit column of the local newspapers? These often give hints at the names of other relatives. In his will he mentions his children and their addresses. Search the births index for the grandchildren of George Ernest Wilson. You find them and their marriages in the 1980's. Did they have any children? Try the births index. Sooner or later you'll get an address for someone close enough in time to the present day, to chance writing a letter in the hope that they either still live at the address, or someone there knows how to contact them. Try the BT website to see if you can locate relatives. This is a very simplified example, it is often more difficult and you do have to think of how to work around a problem, but there's usually a way of doing so. If the above is as clear as mud, let me know and I'll try to clarify things for you. Good luck Geoffers Charlbury, Oxfordshire

Dear Listers: Considering that the census information is released every one hundred years, can any of you recommend a way to research family going forward from 1901? PR's can only help you if families remain in same towns & villages. All I have are names. And for obvious reasons, I have not found any relatives in the last known towns. Any/all suggestions will be appreciated. Best Regards, George Wilson