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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

Sorry, you have no rights to view unless you are a member. If you live in (or have a connection with) the village, please ask for access.
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
Court Rolls

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
Anglo SaxonWill

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
Lord of ManorReference

Coppingers Manors of Suffolk – Waldringfield

The whole book is available online here. Also as a Word document Coppingers Manors - Waldringfield - also Coppingers Manors - Hemley and Coppingers Manors - Newbourn. Our text - page  113 WALDRINGFIELD There was one manor here in Saxon times.   It belonged to Ranalf, brother of Ilger, and consisted of 1 carucate of land, a border, 2 ploughteams, reduced to…
alyson
May 4, 2015
Tax

1640 Ship Tax

Waldringfield Ship Tax payable (30 Mar., 1640) - £4 13s. 6d. Redgrave, Wm., minister Bowen, Jn Gosse, Wm. Gyrlinge, Jn. Rivers, Thos. Ranndoll, Ralph Roe, Wm. Knappet, Ann, wid. Scole, Jn. Brainch, Rich. Lione, Robt. Haywarde, Wm. Acton, Saml. Gosse, Wm.  
alyson
April 19, 2015
DocumentsLord of Manor

1685 Barnardiston fine.

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 8, 1685-1689. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1923. Oct 8 1685: Constitution and appointment by same of William Arnold, gent., to the office of steward and stewardship of the manor of Wicks Bishop in the parish of St. Clements in Ipswich and the manor of Waldringfield, co. Suffolk, which manors have been…
alyson
April 8, 2015
Will

1658 Essington Will

Word Version. 1658 Essington Will R.C.Palmer? 6/22/20/13 C78/549 ----- ----- lyeth lyeinge in --- ---- - William Fox or his assignes valued togeather worth to be sold goo clu/aud the manor of Wilby Shalton alias Sheltonhall Thorpehall Base? Struttings alias Basse Struttinge and of each? Burgh with theire and every of theire rights members & appurtenances in the County of Suffolke…
alyson
April 8, 2015
Lord of Manor

Follow up references to Cwengifu and Wingfield

I did a search for the name cwengifu and came up with this and in the appendix starting with p105 it talks about Queen's estates in later anglo saxon England. From the table it seems to indicate that in 1086 Cwengifu held her estate as a tenant originally from Queen Æthelflæd of Damerham, wife of Edmund. This is only an…
alyson
March 20, 2015