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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Suffolk => Topic started by: purple frog on Friday 17 February 06 12:50 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone.Could anyone tell me what the church is called in Langham, I am assuming there is only one as I believe it is a small village. Is anyone able to look up for me in the parish records?? I have found family on the 1851 census my gt gt grandmother Rebecca Major daughter of Isaac and Eliza Major.Rebecca is 9 and her parents 32 and 30.Isaac and Rebecca's place of birth is Langham. Any thing you could get is a bonus.
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Can't help with the parish record but have found them in 1841
Jan ;)
Langham
Isaac Major 25 Ag Lab
Eliza do 23
Susan do 1
and on same page
John Major 62 Ag Lab
Francis do 62 - Francis is female despite the spelling
Susan do 18
All born in county
HO107/1014/1 Pg8
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Jan, Thanks for that it never ceases to amaze me how helpful everyone is on this site!!
Very interesting as I had pencilled in his parents as a Robert and Maria from IGI :-\
Purple Frog
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Hi everyone.Could anyone tell me what the church is called in Langham, I am assuming there is only one as I believe it is a small village. Is anyone able to look up for me in the parish records?? I have found family on the 1851 census my gt gt grandmother Rebecca Major daughter of Isaac and Eliza Major.Rebecca is 9 and her parents 32 and 30.Isaac and Rebecca's place of birth is Langham. Any thing you could get is a bonus.
Hi
The parish church at Langham is St George.
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/langham.htm
From the Suffolk Churches website.
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/churchlists.htm
Rick :)
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Thanks Rick
I will check those out :)
Purple Frog
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Hi there,
I have found siblings to your Rebecca (I think) in Walsham PR but not Rebecca herself unfortunately! Here is the detail I have found:
Baptised
1846 Aug-23 MAJOR Mary Alice dau of Isaac (labourer) & Eliza
1868 Apr-20 MAJOR Albert Henry aged 13 - son of Isaac (engine driver) & Eliza
Hope this is of some help?!
Regards
Yvonne
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Hi Yvonne,
Many thanks for looking for me. Where is Walsham PR? I assumed everything was at Bury St Edmonds ???
I believe they are Rebecca's siblings and any extra details are always very helpful. I have Rebecca's birth cert but not baptismal details still. She was born on 26th nov 1841 in Langham. Which dates did you look between for my records?
Many thanks once again ;D
Purple frog
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Hi there,
Walsham le Willows is in the Bury St Edmonds District since 1837, previously in Stow district.
I have a CD of the Walsham le willows Parish Registers for St Mary the Virgin 1539 to 1900 and Particular Baptist Chapel Baptisms from 1811-1837. I looked through the WHOLE thing! I donīt know, but there may have been a church at Langham - thatīs where my brick wall is too - all censuses state born in Walsham (hence my buying the CD!) but my ancestor is not there either! ::)
Oh well!
regards
Yvonne
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hi, if you go to www.norfolkchurches.co.uk you will find langham church with photo and details its church is called st.andrews&st.marys church kind regards harrywrag
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hi, if you go to www.norfolkchurches.co.uk you will find langham church with photo and details its church is called st.andrews&st.marys church kind regards harrywrag
Hi Harry
There are Langhams in both Norfolk and Suffolk. I believe that the MAJOR family hail from the Suffolk Langham. Sadly Simon Knott has taken the church off of his website but I believe that the church is still open.
The Suffolk Record Office sells Langham PRs on microfiche - 1561 - 1900
Rick :)
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Hi Rick and Purple Frog et al
Simon is going through many of the old entries on the Suffolk pages of his web site. He is adding more photographs and amending and updating the text. Our village was 'off the air' for a while, but it's now back and looking very good.
Keep checking and I am sure that Langham St George will soon re-appear (best time to check is school holiday weeks when Simon has more time to work on the web site ;D
By the way, in the days when I was still running 'Mum's taxi service' I often travelled a few miles over the border into Essex to take our daughter to a friend in the village of Langham! So that's one in each county of East Anglia - at least :D
Suffolk Mawther ...
http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/langham.htm
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Hi, Purple Frog,
Not quite on the main purpose and intent of your thread, but tomorrow I'm going to Honington to see what I can find about the MAJOR family who were there in the 1841 Census.
There's a rather uncertain entry of a baptism on the IGI for a Louisa MAJOR on 23rd February 1831, parents given as William and Mary. Strange that the mother of all her siblings seems to be a Lucy, and that she then disappears until her marriage in 1863 to a William Christopher LLOYDS at St Mary's Islington.
Printing out all the MAJOR's of Suffolk from the National Burial Index, they seem to be well represented, with Langham and Honington cropping out quite often. I'm hoping to find the 1841 and 1844 burials of her father William and the woman called Lucy, though I have no idea what state the churchyard there will be in.
Anyone with MAJOR interests in Honington who wants me to look at or take a photo of anything...?
I read that the "peasant poet" Robert Bloomfield, was born in 1766 there - he's famous for the long epic poem: "The Farmer's Boy", and preceded the great John Clare...
The pub called "The Fox" looks quite cosy, too!
keith
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A response to one of mine.---->>>>
Thanks for the contact on the Bloomfields. Looking at my list and the following are the only ones which cross checked.
Isaac b.1682 - d. 1770 m.1703 to Hannah Whiten b. 1682 - d1726 (They had 18 children)
(second marriage) 1730 Susan Clift b. 1682 - d.1764 (They had one child)
William b. 1684 (brother of above) m. 1708 Sarah Jeffrey
The above were children of Isaac b. 1652 - d. 1722 m. 1676 to Catherine Bird b. 1652-d. 1732
George b. 1707 - d 1791 m.1729 Susan Hempstead b. 1708 - d. 1756
(second marriage) 1758 Mary Range b.1737
George b. 1730 - d. 1766 m. 1755 Elizabeth Manby b. 1735 - d. 1804 (They had 7 children, including Robert Bloomfield the Suffolk poet)
Isaac b.1760 - d. 1811. m. 1783 Sarah Whayman b. 1762
Isaac b.1760 is my gt. gt. gt. grandfather. Unfortunately, all the other names on your list don't seem to tie in with the ones I found when I visited Suffolk records office last year. All the ones I found and linked up lived in Suffolk and it was my grandmother Elizabeth Bloomfield b. 1868 - d. 1962 moved to Staffs. It would appear that your line came from a London family. Hope this helps.