Hi Nivard East Tuddenham parish registers and an assortment of documents from the parish chest remained in the parish until fairly recently, maybe 25 years ago, when they were finally placed in the Norfolk Record Office. The 1810 Bible Census for East Tuddenham parish is only two pages long. Initially, I thought other pages were missing because there were definitely more than 62 households in the parish but after finding the 1813 documents described below, I realized the vicar had only surveyed the poor. The vicar had no reason to identify those who could buy their own reading material. Too bad. It would have been interesting to have an indication of this group's literacy. Another document that amounts to a second census for that period. On 19 Apr 1813 at a town meeting Edward Campling, overseer, made a rate at 3 shillings on the pound to raise the sum 305.14 for the averages and other disbursements for two quarters. Campling included two lists, one includes 46 heads of households who could afford to pay the rates assessed to each of them...total 306.10.6 The second list contains names of 57 cottagers with a notation...lost rate by cottages, valuation £110.00 Bonnie

Hi Rosie When emigrants from England wrote home from Canada, they often complained about being unable to express themselves as they would like due to the tiny scraps of paper upon which they had to write their letters. Pens, ink and paper may have been hard to come by for some who would have liked to learn to write. Bonnie