Judith Werner wrote: > I've put a marriage entry for Thomas Netherwood on the Old-English > Unsolved pages at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/unsolved40.html > > I can't make out the name of Thomas's parish. At first I thought the > first word was "Saynt" but that didn't hold up on closer inspection. > > This is the only Netherwood entry I found in Burgh; evidently Katherine > came from here and Thomas from elsewhere. As far as I know, there is > not a Netherwood presence in all of Suffolk so he might have been from > anywhere. There were Netherwoods in Essex and Cambridge around this > time; some in London as well. I've also found a Yorkshire Netherwood > or two in Norfolk this century, probably due to something concerning > the cloth trade. > > Any ideas on what this place might be would be appreciated. I think it must be Earl Soham (or Soham Comitis), just over 6 miles north of Burgh. It looks as though it has first been written as Soome Comitis, with the first word then changed to "Sohme". Chris Phillips