Forum: Suffolk county-wide forum

Please could sks check the above reference (Norton, Suffolk) for me please. I have 3 DEBENHAMs - a Thomas (visitor) and Fanny and Ellen (nieces) in the household BUT I would like to know who else was there. I cannot place Thomas DEBENHAM with any other part of the family at the moment, but I...

I have been searching my info to find sources for my ancestors and this is what I found to date. On the 1851 Census Name Relation Condition Age Birth Yr Occupation where born Hilder Edward Head married 37 ...

Hi have just joined the forum , can anybody help me with any information on the Coleby family from Old Newton, Suffolk. They are connected to my husbands family tree going back from his grandfather b 1899 to his g grandmother,g.g.grandfather, g.g.g.grandmother and g.g.g.g.grandfather.I have taken...

My cousin, with whom I work jointly on our combined tree, also has roots in Suffolk which include the following names: BANYARD (Blakenham Magna) BOREHAM (Whatfield / Elmsett) COUSENS (Whatfield / Cosford / Little Waldringfield) FRANCES (Willisham) MOWER (Elmsett / Hadleigh) PEPPER (Flowton...

Hi I am looking for Reeve Whitbread b about 1867 Bury St Edmunds. I found him in the 1901 Census married to Florence J with children Beatrice, Reginald & Spence. They were living in Croydon Surrey in 1901. I can't find any other mention of the family. Can anyone please help? Regards Fiona

Looking for information on Hines who were Cordwainers/Shoe Makers in Suffolk circa 1750 - 1850. It would appear they worked in the Bramford area until the early 1800s after which they appear in Stutton and Holbrook. Regards David

Hello all. I have a Sarepta COBB (born abt 1805 in Debenham according to all the census I have found her on) who marrries William SPALL 24 May 1831 in Debenham and they go on to have at least 6 children. I have found her death in 1886 but am having trouble finding her birth despite such an...

Hello. My great aunt Agnes Eliza Peters died 6 may 1980 i was wondering where i would look to find if there was an obituary of her. Her husband was Frederick george Peters i am unable to find any details of when he died. My aunt was a widow when she died. They lived in kesgrave, ipswich. Any...

I never realized it was so long since I came on here, I have been researching my family tree for 30 years ,and it is still growing. Everything goes quiet for awhile, then before I know it, I get a tap on the computer screen and off we go again. I swear those ancesters upstairs are determined to...

I am trying to see if I can buy on Parish Chest, or ask for a look up, for an area in Suffolk, but I am completely confused as to what they are actually called! The registration district that comes up is Hoxne, often with no other info, but I think there are lots of parishes and hundreds there....

BENSTEAD Ipswich BOLDERO Bury St Edmonds BOYNES/BOYNS Clopton, Marlesford, Ipswich, ?Hasketon COLLIN(G)S Sproughton COOPER Offton, East Bergholt (Bentley) ELLIOTT Bedfield, Ipswich, Bramford, Sproughton FLETCHER Sproughton GARROD GOODING Ipswich LAFLIN Ringshall

My 3 x great grandmother, Sarah Berry (born 1796) in Thornham Magna in Suffolk had 6 children (in Wickham Skeith/Thornham Magna), all out of wedlock and it has been my mission to find out the father! The children were all born 1818 - 1833 so unfortunately before registration. I have checked...

I've come across reference on the www to a book entitled The Dale's of Suffolk (that's the Dale family, not the landscape!). Suffolk Dale family history goes back to c1220 with Radulphi de la Dale, and Dale Hall, which stood in Ipswich until the 1920s, was their seat. Has anyone heard of the book,...

hi my ggrandfather was killed in an accident in 1942. on his funeral sheet it said there was a representative of buxhall mills present, my ggrandfather was a wheelwright amongst other things and i wondered if buxhall mills was a sawmill? i have googled it and looked through pages of suffolk history...

Hi, I have found this site today and am hoping I can glean more information about my family history. I have been searching now for over six years mainly to try and find out my Grandfather's father. He was born out of wedlock in 1900 - his mother was called Florence Mahala Clark (b 1881). In 1902...

I am looking for the birth record of Charles Lee b. March 4, 1802 in Ipswich, Suffolk. His mother's maiden name was Frost. I know he had siblings William, James, John, Charles....and his sisters, Lydia married a Mr. Obadiah Squirrel, Hannah married a Mr. Goodwin, Sarah mar. a Mr. Stannard and...

I have a direct line ancestor who lived in Wickham Market Suffolk. IGI has two alternative years of birth for her 1753 or 1756 and the names Mary Ann Huckbuck or Hucktuck. She married Herman Garrett who is from the same line of Garretts as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson but this was before the Garrett...