Month: July 2021

Always interesting to find new data online for my old home territory, even the village. Fully transcribed and linked to page images are records for 322,894 BMBs from East Suffolk. Here are the parishes with new or updated records.

Place	Rite	Years
Belton	Baptisms	1560-1642, 1644-1648, 1650-1654, 1656, 1658-1682, 1685-1686, 1688-1689, 1691-1692, 1694-1725, 1728-1991
Belton	Burials	1560-1620, 1623-1643, 1649-1650, 1653, 1657, 1659, 1662-1666, 1668, 1673, 1677-1689, 1697, 1699-1725, 1728-1774, 1776-1959
Belton	Marriages	1560-1572, 1574-1576, 1578-1588, 1590-1597, 1599, 1601-1607, 1609-1616, 1620, 1623-1626, 1628-1632, 1634-1635, 1637-1641, 1644, 1653, 1665-1667, 1673-1674, 1695, 1697-1700, 1704-1706, 1715, 1718, 1723, 1725, 1729-1734, 1736, 1738, 1740-1746, 1748, 1750, 1752-1762, 1764-1768, 1770-1779, 1781, 1783-1789, 1791-1809, 1814-1818, 1822, 1824-1835, 1837-1839, 1841, 1843-1853, 1855-1968, 1970, 1976, 1978-1980
Blundeston With Flixton	Marriages	1561-1564, 1566, 1568-1572, 1574-1578, 1581, 1583-1587, 1590-1591, 1593-1595, 1597, 1599, 1602-1603, 1606-1617, 1621-1623, 1626, 1628, 1631-1632, 1635-1636, 1638, 1649-1650, 1652, 1654-1655, 1657-1659, 1661-1663, 1665-1666, 1675, 1693, 1695-1696, 1699, 1701, 1703, 1708-1715, 1717-1726, 1728, 1730-1731, 1734-1737, 1739-1744, 1746-1749, 1751-1763, 1765-1779, 1782-1837, 1959-1972
Bradwell	Marriages	1565, 1567, 1569-1570, 1572, 1575, 1578, 1581, 1585-1586, 1591-1592, 1597, 1599-1601, 1603-1607, 1609-1612, 1616, 1618-1619, 1621, 1624-1625, 1627-1635, 1637-1653, 1659-1663, 1666-1667, 1669, 1671-1677, 1679-1684, 1695-1699, 1702-1704, 1706-1708, 1710-1713, 1718-1753, 1755, 1759, 1761-1762, 1765-1766, 1769, 1771-1774, 1776-1777, 1780, 1783-1784, 1786-1788, 1790, 1792-1793, 1796, 1798-1803, 1805-1810, 1812-1814, 1816-1817, 1819, 1821-1829, 1831-1835, 1837-1844, 1846-1853, 1855-1863, 1865-1901, 1930-1947, 1949-1986
Burgh Castle	Marriages	1694, 1697-1714, 1717-1725, 1729-1753, 1755-1757, 1759-1765, 1767-1768, 1770, 1772-1779, 1782-1787, 1789, 1791-1797, 1799-1800, 1803, 1805-1806, 1808-1811, 1813-1828, 1830-1831, 1833-1834, 1836-1840, 1842-1845, 1847-1850, 1852, 1854-1861, 1863-1871, 1873-1902, 1948, 1950-1964, 1966-1981
Carlton Colville	Banns	1754-1763, 1766-1776, 1779-1780, 1782-1882, 1884-1901, 1934-1935, 1940-1941
Carlton Colville	Baptisms	1710-1961
Carlton Colville	Burials	1710-1936
Carlton Colville	Marriages	1710-1715, 1720, 1722-1764, 1766-1785, 1787-1831, 1833-2001
Corton	Marriages	1580-1583, 1586, 1589, 1592, 1594-1596, 1599, 1603-1607, 1609-1611, 1613-1614, 1618-1621, 1623-1643, 1646-1651, 1653, 1681-1682, 1687, 1695-1697, 1701-1703, 1705-1708, 1710-1713, 1715, 1718, 1721-1727, 1731-1732, 1734-1735, 1739-1743, 1745-1746, 1748-1750, 1754-1760, 1762-1766, 1768-1772, 1775-1778, 1780-1781, 1784, 1787-1788, 1790-1793, 1795-1798, 1800, 1802, 1804-1806, 1808, 1810-1811, 1815, 1818-1821, 1824, 1826-1827, 1829-1836, 1964, 1966-1971
Gisleham	Marriages	1759, 1761-1763, 1766, 1768-1769, 1771-1786, 1788, 1790-1792, 1794-1795, 1797, 1799-1803, 1805, 1807-1825, 1828-1839, 1846-1848, 1851-1852, 1854-1859, 1861, 1864-1883, 1885-1901, 1938, 1969-1971, 1973, 1976-1978, 1980-1982
Gorleston	Baptisms	1705-1778, 1879-1887
Gorleston With Southtown	Baptisms	1667-1669, 1678-1705, 1779-1880, 1886-1916
Gorleston With Southtown	Burials	1674-1698, 1701-1711, 1713-1915
Gorleston With Southtown	Marriages	1675-1676, 1680-1681, 1683-1700, 1702-1744, 1746-1911
Gunton	Marriages	1740-1741, 1743-1744, 1746, 1748-1749, 1752, 1754-1756, 1759, 1766, 1769, 1775, 1780-1781, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1798-1800, 1805-1806, 1811, 1813, 1815, 1819, 1822-1825, 1827-1833, 1835-1844, 1846-1847, 1852-1855, 1857-1858, 1865, 1867, 1869-1870, 1872, 1879-1883, 1886-1888, 1891, 1894-1897, 1901, 1904, 1966-1982
Herringfleet	Marriages	1709, 1711, 1713-1715, 1717-1718, 1721, 1724-1726, 1729-1730, 1733, 1735, 1738, 1745-1746, 1749-1750, 1752, 1754-1755, 1757-1759, 1761, 1763-1767, 1769-1773, 1778-1792, 1794-1799, 1813, 1816, 1818-1827, 1829, 1832-1834, 1836-1838, 1841, 1844-1847, 1849, 1851-1854, 1856-1858, 1860-1869, 1875, 1877, 1880-1881, 1883, 1885-1889, 1891-1895, 1897-1901, 1905-1915, 1917-1920, 1922-1924, 1927-1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945-1946, 1948-1949, 1953, 1955, 1957-1962, 1964-1966, 1971
Hopton	Marriages	1675, 1677, 1679, 1695, 1697, 1699, 1701, 1704-1708, 1710-1711, 1714, 1716, 1720-1721, 1726, 1728-1731, 1733, 1740-1741, 1748, 1751, 1755, 1758, 1760, 1764-1767, 1769-1771, 1774-1777, 1779-1789, 1792-1795, 1797, 1799-1805, 1807-1810, 1813-1818, 1820-1831, 1833-1835, 1842-1843, 1845-1846, 1955
Kessingland	Baptisms	1561-1566, 1568-1571, 1579-1580, 1582-1604, 1606-1630, 1632-1633, 1635-1644, 1646-1647, 1649-1651, 1655, 1657-1668, 1670-1686, 1688-1690, 1692-1739, 1741-1951
Kessingland	Burials	1562-1576, 1578-1600, 1602, 1605-1643, 1660-1663, 1665, 1670-1672, 1674-1682, 1689, 1695-1750, 1752-1811, 1813-1981
Kessingland	Marriages	1561-1566, 1568-1581, 1585, 1587-1594, 1596-1598, 1600, 1603-1608, 1611-1612, 1614, 1617, 1619-1621, 1623-1625, 1627-1631, 1633-1643, 1662, 1676, 1704, 1708-1715, 1717-1720, 1723-1726, 1728-1733, 1735-1741, 1743-1745, 1747, 1754-1771, 1773-1779, 1781-1844, 1846-1994
Kirkley	Baptisms	1701-1704, 1707-1996
Kirkley	Marriages	1751-1753, 1755-1758, 1760-1761, 1763-1764, 1766-1770, 1772, 1774-1778, 1783-1784, 1786, 1789-1794, 1798, 1804, 1806-1807, 1809-1813, 1815-1818, 1820-1826, 1829-1835, 1837-1992
Kirkley With Lowestoft	Marriages	1980-1983, 1985-1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1992
Lowestoft	Banns	1905-1908
Lowestoft	Baptisms	1765-1774
Lowestoft	Burials	1765-1779
Lowestoft	Marriages	1765-1768
Lowestoft Christ Church	Baptisms	1869-1938
Lowestoft Christ Church	Marriages	1869-1945, 1947-1948, 1951-1960, 1974-1985
Lowestoft St John	Baptisms	1854-1973
Lowestoft St John	Marriages	1855-1973
Lowestoft St Margaret	Baptisms	1561-1565, 1567-1649, 1651-1652, 1655, 1687-1921, 1924-1931
Lowestoft St Margaret	Marriages	1561-1640, 1645-1651, 1653-1658, 1662-1673, 1675-1709, 1711-1937
Mutford	Marriages	1681-1685, 1701-1704, 1707, 1710-1711, 1717, 1721-1722, 1724-1727, 1729-1735, 1737, 1741-1742, 1744-1747, 1749, 1755-1756, 1759-1767, 1769-1785, 1789-1791, 1793-1798, 1805, 1807-1811, 1813-1819, 1821-1833, 1835-1838, 1840-1845, 1847-1854, 1856-1864, 1882, 1895-1896, 1898-1899, 1906, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1959-1965, 1967-1968
Oulton	Marriages	1846-1849, 1856, 1863-1865, 1872, 1896-1900, 1915-1978
Oulton	Baptisms	1813-1889, 1922-1968
Oulton Broad	Banns	1931, 1936-1941
Oulton Broad	Baptisms	1931-1976
Oulton Broad	Marriages	1931-1988
Pakefield	Baptisms	1678, 1680-1688, 1691-1901, 1915-1936
Pakefield	Marriages	1681, 1697-1746, 1749-1751, 1754-1759, 1761-1789, 1793-1795, 1797-1799, 1804, 1810-1817, 1819-1830, 1832-1965
Somerleyton	Marriages	1559-1564, 1569-1571, 1573, 1575-1582, 1584-1585, 1589-1590, 1593-1594, 1596-1603, 1605-1616, 1618-1619, 1622-1625, 1627, 1629-1630, 1632-1635, 1637-1638, 1640-1642, 1647-1650, 1653-1659, 1661, 1664-1669, 1672-1674, 1677-1678, 1680-1703, 1705-1710, 1712-1724, 1726-1729, 1731-1733, 1735-1737, 1739-1747, 1750-1752, 1754-1759, 1762, 1764-1766, 1768-1772, 1774-1782, 1784-1787, 1789-1791, 1793-1795, 1798-1799, 1801-1810, 1812-1813, 1815, 1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1853, 1855-1884, 1886-1901, 1959-1960, 1964, 1969

TheGenealogist’s article ‘Searching the Suffolk Parish Records finds the man who accused the Lowestoft Witches’ here:

Judith Rose Mary Neville (née Brownell) of Finch, Ontario passed on Wednesday 8 July 2021 at Winchester District Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, Ontario at age 62.

An educator and leader, she worked tirelessly to promote the causes she was interested in.

Judy was one of the founding members of the Ontario East British Home Child Family. She pushed for OEBHCF to place a wreath for British Home Children and their descendants at the National War Memorial on 11 November 2013 and each year since then. She assisted with having the home child display at Upper Canada Village Aultsville Train Station.

Judy’s most profound accomplishment was “being invited to emcee the ceremony at Parliament Hill for the presentation of the Canadian Flag that flew over the Peace Tower, 50 years after British Home Child descendant, Joan O’Malley sewed the three prototypes that resulted in our beautiful Maple Leaf Flag. Judy was invited to bring words about the little-known history of over 100,000 British Home Children who were sent to Canada between 1869 – 1948 in hopes for a better opportunity at life and future, but first had to work off an indenture or contract.” 

Read more about her family and life at https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21841927/judy-neville

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday 29 July to contain 281,219,868  unique records (280,862,829 at the previous update). Years with major additions of more than 10,000 records are, for births 1986-87 and 1990-91, for marriages 1986-90 and for deaths 1986 and 1989-90.

Births are now virtually complete to 1986, marriages and deaths to 1985.

Over 10 million new baptism, marriage, and burial records, the largest collection of Scottish family history records available online.

Scotland, Parish Births & Baptisms 1564-1929
Vital details of Scots from all walks of life, including some of the country’s most famous sons and daughters. — Robert Burns, Alexander Graham Bell, Scipio Kennedy and many more.

Scotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893
Millions of new regular, irregular and cross-border marriage records are now online, some for the very first time. Rare “irregular marriages” occurred during Kirk Sessions, were not officially recorded in parish registers and were conducted without a ceremony.

Scotland, Parish Deaths & Burials 1564-2017
Millions of new records, published in partnership with local societies, archives, and volunteers including:

The Scottish Genealogy Society
Fife Family History Society
The Highland Family History Society
Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society
Renfrewshire Family History Society
Lothians Family History Society
Lanarkshire Family History Society
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
West Lothian Family History Society. \

The title Canada, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 which Ancestry introduced on 15 January is now expanded to 6,927,942 records. The index entry, based on OCRd text, is fairly basic: name, name of spouse, date and sometimes a bit more. For the colourful details of the bride’s wedding dress, where they honeymooned, etc you’ll need access to the original newspaper at Newspaper.com. It may be available through your public library,

Also updated is U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999  with 254,970,138 records.

Here is the latest survey of top tweeters for #genealogy and #familyhistory in the past few days.

Rank	#genealogy	Count		#familyhistory	Count
1	FamilyTreeTips2	41		FamilyTreeTips2	88
2	Heirs2U	21		Heirs2U	55
3	GeneaStudies	20		CaroleParkes1	55
4	skcgs1	18		chiddickstree	45
5	chiddickstree	16		ConfKeep	41
6	sillymummyft	15		FederationFHS	37
7	GenealogyWise	15		BeyondBrickWal1	29
8	marksology	11		MarianBWood	26
9	ClioVis	11		geneastories	24
10	BgrgSeattle	11		STTBooks	23
11	BeyondBrickWal1	11		GenesBlog	23
12	MarianBWood	10		GenealogyWise	22
13	KentuckySociety	10		karendebruyne	21
14	karendebruyne	10		GeneaStudies	19
15	bonavacantia1	10		YFH_genealogy	18
16	WSGSociety	9		LynnsWPics	17
17	pennysresearch	9		HouseHistoryHr	17
18	ConfKeep	9		GenealogyBank	16
19	AmericanCousin1	9		ClioVis	16
20	CranesfootLance	8		FamilyHistoryUK	14

As previously in April, FamilyTreeTips2 retains the top spot. It promotes items from familytreetips.co.uk which appears to be out of Brighton, England. Topics on that blog are : British Research, DNA Tips, Dutch Research, Freemason Research, French Research, General Tips, German Research, Italian Research, Military Tips, Photographs, Preservation Tips, Researching on a Budget.

Remaining in second place is Heirs2U, a genealogist out of Cramlington, UK (near Newcastle Upon Tyne).

Third is chiddickstree from Paul Chiddicks, who writes a regular column for Family Tree magazine (UK). It replaces ClioVis which drops to 7th overall.

A post yesterday on additions to the Canadiana.ca serials collection was inadvertently deleted. Here are those items again and some additions to the Heritage collection this month.

For the serials collection, which are OCRd:

Evening times star (Saint John, N.B.)  for 2 May 1910 to 15 January 1927, That’s a run of 2,177 issues with a few issues missing from the paper’s launch and, no doubt, gaps internally.

Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for the counties of Carleton, Dundas, Glengarry, Grenville, Lanark, Prescott, Russell and Stormont, for 1894. There are now 9 issues from 1885 to 1899.  The is a good source for finding rural land lot and concession numbers.

The additions this month to the Heritage archival collection are:

Canada. Department of the Interior : Letters patent (Western Land Grants) 1907. Microfilm C-6146 and Mikan 156853.

Directorate of Movements : Marine files 1945 . Microfilm C-5635 and Mikan 135140. The file includes information on the military voyages of the Ile de France that arrived in Halifax on 21 October 1945 with 9900 passengers and the Lady Nelson arriving Halifax on 6 November 1945 with 500 passengers.

Nominal rolls and paylists for the Volunteer Militia 1855-19141879-1897 . Microfilm T-16674 and Mikan 194987.

 

Headlining the August WDYTYA issue is Sporting Ancestors by Keith Gregson, author of a book by the same title. He explains how football, rugby, cricket and tennis among others exploded in popularity in the UK in the Victorian period, culminating in the re-establishment of the Olympic Games. Look to digitized newspapers as a major source for finding family members competing, as I did to find a relative playing cricket for Rokeby, Saskatchewan. You may be lucky and find preserved ephemera such as scorecards, club programs, magazines and annual reports.
Nick Peers writes in Photo Books on how you can bring your photos together in a professionally printed book to be treasured down the generations (perhaps)!
Felix Rowe writes about The Packet Service, the way mail was transported outside Great Britain before being contracted to private companies like Cunard around 1850,

Other content is how to get more out of trade directories and a masterclass guide to Prairie Province’s censuses of 1906, 1916 and 1926.

A reminder that the issue is available free online through Press Reader at the Ottawa Public Library website and many other Canadian public libraries for their subscribers.

Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed.

Tuesday 27 July, 2 pm: Virtual Genealogy Drop-In, from Ottawa Branch of OGS and The Ottawa Public Library. https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/.

Tuesday 27 July 2:30 pm: Using Maps for (US) Genealogy Research, by Philip Sutton for Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5312286

Wednesday 28 July, 2 pm: Specialized Lineage Societies – more than just DAR, Dames and Mayflower, by Kimberly Ormsby Nagy for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1637

Thursday 29 July, 6:30 pm: The 21st Century Bookshelf:
Books, Manuscripts, & Documents in the World of Bytes: Finding Your Ancestor’s Five Senses, by Curt Witcher for Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5322266

Coming

19 – 26 September 2021: BIFHSGO Conference. Irish Lines and Female Finds: Exploring Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy. www.bifhsgo2021.ca/.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records 2,856 locations in Canada where they have memorials to 18,851 war dead.

Row Labels	FWW Casualties	SWW Casualties	Total Casualties
Alberta	432	644	1076
British Columbia	751	740	1491
Manitoba	669	553	1222
New Brunswick	328	287	615
Newfoundland and Labrador	131	347	480
Nova Scotia	1013	3469	4482
Ontario	2741	3556	6298
Prince Edward Island	85	100	185
Quebec	956	1055	2011
Saskatchewan	367	632	999
Yukon Territory	0	2	2
Grand Total	7473	11385	18861

For both wars, Ontario has the most commemorations, followed by Nova Scotia and Quebec.

The Halifax Memorial commemorates 3,141 Canadian and Newfoundland sailors, merchant seamen, soldiers and nursing sisters who lost their lives at sea, and also bears the names of men of the Canadian Army stationed in Canada who have no known grave, most from the SWW.

The Ottawa Memorial commemorates 820 commemorates men and women who lost their lives while serving or training with the Air Forces of the Commonwealth in Canada, the West Indies and the United States and who have no known grave.

There are 1,726 Canadian locations with a single burial.

896 locations in Ontario have CWGC commemoration, 622 for the First World War, 541 for the SWW.

Cemetery	First World War Casualties	Second World War Casualties	Total Casualties
OTTAWA MEMORIAL	0	820	820
TORONTO (PROSPECT) CEMETERY	400	248	648
TORONTO (MOUNT PLEASANT) CEMETERY	125	105	230
OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY	99	113	212
KITCHENER (WOODLAND) CEMETERY	40	162	202
TORONTO (ST. JOHN’S NORWAY) CEMETERY	118	79	197
TORONTO (MOUNT HOPE) CEMETERY	79	73	152
KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY	61	85	146
LONDON (MOUNT PLEASANT) CEMETERY	97	44	141
HAMILTON CEMETERY	128	12	140
OTTAWA NOTRE DAME CEMETERY	42	73	115

 

Stop by at www.facebook.com/myheritage today (Monday 26 July) at 2 pm ET when I’ll be offering another pub quiz.  How many of the 20 questions can you get right, by guess or knowledge.