Suffolk parish registers to go online?

[Trevor Rix]

According to familysearch.org/mapp Orford parish registers commence in 1538.

As your surname appears to be Brady and you are researching Brady, I am wondering whether you have taken a Y-DNA test at Family Tree DNA? The Brady group/project there has 180 members. Their summer sale ends today.

[ribbo39]

Hi BradyCMH,

Does anyone know if the Orford records for this earlier period still exist, who keeps them now and are they copied anywhere else

The Suffolk Family History Society have transcribed a lot of the suffolk parish records onto a series of CDs, alternatively they also offer a search facility. Their address is; https://suffolkfhs.co.uk/index.php

Orford is one that is available on disc.

Alan
PS; disclaimer I'm not associated with the society just a customer.

[BradyCMH]

Thanks Trevor. I've done a y-111 marker test, but there are very few matches. Genetic distance to any possible matches takes me much further back than there appears to be any written evidence for.  I'm not prepared to splash out on the big y-700 until there are a few more other punters to try to match to. I'm in their Brady project but most of the members will be wearing the seamrog on March 17, which is most unlikely to be relevant to my family for sure.

Thanks also to ribbo39. I'll try to find the SFH search facility to try to see what's included.
It looks as though we just might be related?: Revans, prob of Norfolk?=m=Alldis of Woodbridge>>Barbara Alldis 1767=m=William Hollinshed Brady 1768>> our lot.

[coombs]

I have Orford ancestors but further back. Names are Beversham, Coe and Coggeshall.

Those new searchable Norwich Consistory Court Marriage licenses on FindMyPast are good as there are many Suffolk marriages due to Suffolk being in the Diocese of Norwich. I have found a number of ancestors and ancestor siblings marriage bonds.

One day we will get our Suffolk Ancestry registers 1538-1900.

[BradyCMH]

We are not connected to any of those as far as I am aware.

Thanks for the Norwich Diocese tip, Coombs.

[coombs]

Also SFHS has just made a new baptism publication, the Carlford and Walford Deanery baptisms 1650-1753. Excellent news. This covers Woodbridge, Wickham Market, Pettistree, Grundisburgh and many more parishes in the area.

[smudwhisk]

https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2023/W11/794624077

[Bee]

Well that's good news, now we just have to patient for a while longer.

[Old Bristolian]

Agreed - but are Ancestry Holdings (Malta) really based in Milan, or was the map too small?

Steve