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alyson

Ground, Road, Gravel

Waldringfield mysteries…

There are some items that we've either not managed to resolve or agree upon. Sylph - WW2 Deben River patrol During World War Two the Land Defence Volunteers maintained watch from the cliff top. However, there is also mention of a river patrol craft, operated by the Royal Navy. We believe she was known as HMS Sylph and it has…
alyson
January 31, 2016
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1876 suicide

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alyson
January 30, 2016
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1850s Death

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alyson
January 30, 2016
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1894 Stollery drowning newspaper transcript

Stollery drowning -East Anglian Daily Times Tuesday May 11th 1894.doc East Anglian Daily Times Tuesday May 11th 1894 TERRIBLE BOATING ACCIDENT ON THE DEBEN Six of a family drowned The pleasure making attendant on Whit Monday which was so much enjoyed throughout East Anglia had an awful termination in the case of one family of the humbler class living on…
alyson
January 22, 2016

Early years of the sailing club

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alyson
January 15, 2016
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2015 Prof Mark Bailey The Black Death in Suffolk and Waldringfield talk

Here's the sound track of Mark's talk as well as the slides black-death-waldringfield Extracted notes: Social structure: Rivershall manor 1367   ---3 free holdings, yielding total 7s. 6d. rent pa, 3+ tenants ---11 unfree (‘bond’, ‘customary’) holdings, total 28s. 3½d. rent pa, 13+ tenants e.g. Roger and Juliana Tidy hold 1 messuage + 10 acres, paying 4s. 8½d. pa, 2…
alyson
January 8, 2016
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Hugh Pearl – RIP

It has been said that Hugh Pearl was returning from a secret mission on April 1st 1939 when his seaplane crashed in the Deben leaving this scar in the mud. The simple headstone half way along Garden Field was the only reminder of his heroism.   Others, more sensibly, say it's obviously to do with drainage as we were informed by the company Hugh…
alyson
January 8, 2016
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Manorial Records at Harvard

Harvard university are digitising some of their manorial records collection that they acquired from a London bookseller in the 1800's, they include Hapsley and Newbourne amongst others.  They are supposed to be making them free to view online.  
alyson
May 11, 2015
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0975 Will of Æthelflæd

Full text  - Anglo-Saxons aethelflaed will.   A.D. 962 x 991, probably after 975. Will of Æthelflæd, including bequest of land at Lambourn, Cholsey and Reading, Berks., to the king; at Damerham, Hants., to Glastonbury; at Hamme to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Woodham, Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to St Mary's, Barking; at Hadham, Herts.,…
alyson
May 4, 2015