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Sarah Ann Ruffell - cul de sac
« on: Saturday 22 September 12 08:26 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Sarah Ann Ruffell - cul de sac
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 22 September 12 08:48 BST (UK) »

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


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Re: Sarah Ann Ruffell - cul de sac
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 22 September 12 08:50 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Sarah Ann Ruffell - cul de sac
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 22 September 12 08:56 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Sarah Ann Ruffell - cul de sac
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 22 September 12 09:07 BST (UK) »
Found her in 1881 in Chelmsford with the family - gives her place of birth as Martham!  Off to check.
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