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New Accession: Will of Benjamin Chipperton, 1795
The Friends of Historic Essex (FHE), the charity that supports the work of the ERO, has recently purchased for the ERO the will of Benjamin Chipperton of Little Bromley (to the north east of...
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Registered wills – filling in the gaps
Wills can tell us all sorts of things about the lives of people in the past, and are a brilliant resource for genealogists and social and economic historians alike. As we have mentioned before, our...
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The return of Sargant Wilson: deeds in family history
Archives Assistant Edd Harris blogs for us about just a few of the things family historians can learn from property deeds… Do you remember our friend Sargant Wilson? At the beginning of October we...
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Great British Railway Journeys: Ipswich to Chelmsford
As episode 17 of series 5 of Great British Railway Journeys airs on BBC2 and Michael Portillo takes in some of the sights of our great county, we thought we would share some items from our collection...
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Greetings from Bangkok
In this guest blog post, Denwood Holmes writes for us from Bangkok about his research in the Essex archives… Greetings from Bangkok, where I hope I have the distinction of being among the ERO’s more...
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Where there’s a will: Richard Leget of Hornchuch
We have just uploaded digital images of a further 22,500 wills to our Essex Ancestors online subscription service (more on this here), and to mark the occasion here we take a look at one of our...
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Document of the Month, December 2017: The Christmases of Essex
Lawrence Barker, Archivist Our Document of the Month for December is the will of Dorothy Christmas of Chelmsford, dating from 1644 (D/ABW 58/39). Dorothy was the wife of Peter Christmas, an inn-keeper...
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