Around this time last year I was in Bury St Edmunds record office, Suffolk, tracking down my Wright ancestors. An IHGS assignment required me to record register events for a family over a period of at least 50 years in one parish, and then construct family trees from those events. Knowing (from census records) that…
Tag: Polstead
Some weeks back I posted a photo I took of St Mary’s church in Polstead, Suffolk. It’s a beautiful old village church, and when we visited back in August, we could just walk in and take a look around. Inside, I picked up a copy of Polstead Church and Parish1 for a small donation, and…
Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
Mary Jane‘s second husband was my great great grandfather, Ephraim Wright. He was born on January 8th 1860 in Polstead, Suffolk, England.1 His parents Benjamin Wright and Mary Ann Peggs had married on October 23rd 1858 in Boxford, Suffolk – Benjamin’s home town.2 I haven’t been able to find Ephraim and his parents in the…