Suffolk parish registers to go online?

[coombs]

Apparently the Suffolk records aim to be online by early 2025 according to the Suffolk FHS. Still over  a year away but looks like a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

I plan yet another trip to Lowestoft RO very soon to look at marriage witnesses for my ancestor's first marriage in 1806 and her 2nd marriage in 1809 in the parish.

[BradyCMH]

Improving news...Bring it on!
I'm interested in your proposed visit to Lowestoft RO,  Registry Office I presume.  What records are they likely to have prior to the formation of GRO in 1837? Are there similar facilities elsewhere in Suffolk?

[coombs]

Improving news...Bring it on!
I'm interested in your proposed visit to Lowestoft RO,  Registry Office I presume.  What records are they likely to have prior to the formation of GRO in 1837? Are there similar facilities elsewhere in Suffolk?

Hi no it is not a registry office but the Lowestoft branch of the Suffolk records office, it contains microfiche/film of Suffolk parish registers going back to the start, or at least when the surviving PR's start as not all survive from 1538 onwards. It also has transcripts and fiche/film of wills, quarter sessions etc.

[Trevor Rix]

Suffolk Free Press 29 June 2023

[Alan b]

More details here:
https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/ancestry-appointed/

And a FAQ here:
https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ancestry-FAQ-Final.pdf

[coombs]

Will be good when they are finally online. Half my Essex ancestors were from Suffolk originally.

And it will be a bonus to others who have Suffolk roots who live hundreds or thousands of miles from Suffolk.

[jonwicken]

Suffolk Free Press 29 June 2023

Just catching up again here and a bit late to the party, but I thought Suffolk Council wanted to do their own thing. Now I see that they have gone with ancestry. Not that I mind that, but feels like they have gone all around the houses to get here! Roll on 2025!

[coombs]

Hartismere 1650-1753 baptisms are now available on CD at Suffolk FHS. A couple of the parishes registers such as Occold only have registers surviving from 1681 and Redlingfield 1739-1753 but most go back to 1650. Although Redgrave starts at 1654 on the registers. As we know not all registers survive as far back as 1538.

I found possible parents of my long standing brickwall Rachel Jessop born c1650. A Nathaniel and Rachel Jessop were having children 1657-1664 in Redgrave. My Rachel wed in Eye in 1670 so was likely born before 1654. If Nathaniel and Rachel wed in Redgrave and had children there before 1654 then it is probably the end of the line for that line unless I can find a will of they wed outside Redgrave.