I D Like to Request Assistance for Brundish Parish Suffolk UK

By mich_beaulien June 24, 2014 1012 views 7 comments

Trying to overcome a brickwall for the period 1620 - 1660 due to selective burning of Brundish parish, Suffolk registers in the nineteenth century. I would like to know how researchers for this parish, and/or for the Bardwell and Wyard families, obtain and confirm information for this period. Thanks.

Related Surnames:
BARDWELL WYARD

Comments (7)

noggin

This site might be useful to browse through:

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Brundish,_Suffolk

noggin

and this one:

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Brundish+Parish%2C+Suffolk

http://forebears.co.uk/england/suffolk/brundish

http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=173-fc89&cid=-1#-1

mich_beaulien

Thank you most sincerely, however I have already tried these for the missing period from 1620 to 1660. I understand which records are available and which ones are missing. I am keen to know the sources used by various family researchers responsible for numerous sites that cite baptism and marriage information despite parish registers for this period having been destroyed. It seems to me that there simply are no intact formal records, but rather hearsay and family records that may be subject to bias (unintentional or otherwise). I am specifically interested in the Bardwell and Wyard family records, being a descendant.

noggin

Have you tried bishops transcripts

mich_beaulien

No I hadn't - thank you! I just had a look via http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi/fs-sfk.htm, which includes a guide to the batches from Bishops Transcripts for Suffolk. Frustratingly the same period is missing from these batch listings. I don't know whether one could hope that all batches have not yet been listed, however the range of dates and records that come up when searching these batches for Wyard and Bardwell indicates that they should have been captured. Back to square one?

I am in Australia - so please bear with me. Would the BT's be accessible for anyone directly via the Archdeaconry of Suffolk? Or would I need to engage an authorised genealogist? Thanks again for your help.

noggin

The bishops transcript for Brundish may have been under a different diocese. I don't think Suffolk had its own Diocese in the 1600s

See map below.

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Diocese_(England)

It could have been in St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Norwich, Ely which all came under the province of Canterbury

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Brundish,_Suffolk

Sorry cannot think of any other channels to look down

mich_beaulien

That's ok - you have been very helpful. Thank you again! Regards, Mich.