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Title: Help with the parish please - COMPLETED
Post by: dejay on Sunday 13 February 11 19:27 GMT (UK)
Can anyone decipher the name of the parish from this marriage record please?

Cannot match with any known Suffolk parishes!

Many thanks
dejay
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: tony huggins on Sunday 13 February 11 19:38 GMT (UK)
could it be Thrandeston nr Mellis and Eye
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: dejay on Sunday 13 February 11 19:51 GMT (UK)
Tony

Doesn't really look like it! But since the marriage is in Earl Soham suppose it may be.

thanks
david
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: annes on Sunday 13 February 11 20:13 GMT (UK)
Could it be Framsden - about 4 miles from Earl Soham?

Anne
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: Redroger on Sunday 13 February 11 20:13 GMT (UK)
Remember though that spelling has changed (evolved?) through time, and in the 18th century there was no standard form.
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: dejay on Sunday 13 February 11 20:52 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the responses.

Anne - like FRAMSDEN. Think you're right!

many thanks
david
Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: Suffolk Mawther on Sunday 13 February 11 23:30 GMT (UK)
It would help to have the details so that we can look at the original image ourselves to judge the handwriting of the clerk.   ;D

Pat ...



Title: Re: Help with the parish please
Post by: dejay on Monday 14 February 11 10:07 GMT (UK)
Pat

It is from the Earl Soham register 4 May 1779. Marriage of Thomas Manby and Sarah Artis.

dejay