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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: Facepainter on Saturday 22 September 12 08:26 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I am foraying back into the family research having been handed another section of tree by a relative. But I'm stuck.
I have Sarah Ann Ruffell as my great great grandmother. b. around 1835. Apparently in Ludham Norfolk - I live nearby and have a third cousin staying, so we were going to visit - but research throws up no Ruffells there, none in the graveyard - no history at all.
On a later census with her husband (William Welham b 1839 Barking) it shows her place of birth as Ludham, Norfolk quite clearly. (My trail is her daughter Bertha Welham who is my great grandmother b 1867 Ipswich Suffolk.) He was born in Suffolk, but their first three children were born in Norfolk, so she may have come from there.
I don't even know where to start looking I'm afraid - could someone point me in the right direction please?
aha! It appears William Welham and Sarah Ann Ruffell got married in 1859 at Stow in Suffolk...
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Hi
Not sure if this helps but there is this ..
England Christening Records
Battisford Suffolk
26th May 1839
Sarah Ann daughter of Richard and Sophia RUFFELL
Karenlee
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I'm not sure...
One of their sons Robert was born 1861/2 in Ludham - I think. He was in Chelmsford by 1881.
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thankyou karenlee - I have just looked back having finished wandering around the ludham archive site (what a brilliant site - if only all villages did that!) - and I too have found that one - I think she looks most likely.
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Found her in 1881 in Chelmsford with the family - gives her place of birth as Martham! Off to check.