Link: Visitations of Suffolk

[sunnylew]

The visitation of Suffolke, made ... 1561, with additions from family documents and other MSS ...

http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationsuffo00hervgoog

The visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk pedigrees

http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationsofsuf00harvuoft

[LizzieW]

What are Visitations exactly.  Some of my ancestors are listed (I had already been told that but from the 2nd web page you gave, I could see it for myself.

Lizzie

[Mort29]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldic_visitation

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/guide/vis.shtml

[sunnylew]

Use these as a helpful aid - people often did their best to link themselves to more illustrious bearers of their name.

Most Visitations, though, usually list much of their sources (prs, wills, etc ) and can be checked.

[LizzieW]

Hello sunnylew

I know what you are saying about people trying to link themselves to more illustrious bearers of their names, but this particular tree has been very carefully researched, with wills etc.  Also the family at the time were very important and details of them can be found in the British Library. 

Thank you for the links Mort29 - I'm not thinking straight today so didn't think about googling.

Lizzie