Genealogy Chat

I thought Suffolk meant 'south folk' as opposed to 'norfolk' being 'north folk'. Register offices, I don't suppose, were ever open on Xmas day or any other public holidays, as register office staff would be public servants. Vicars of course work and the church would be open on Xmas day! nell

I have Suffolk connections but they got out somehow! Did registry offices do it for free on Xmas day as well?

Watch it I was born in Suffolk! Although now live in Hampshire where my family come from. My father always referred to me as a Suffolk dumpling. He was a Berkshire pig. mother a Hampshire hog, which grandfather always maintained referred to the year old lamb and not pig. Have you heard the one about Hampshire. 'Hampshire born and Hampshire bred, strong in the arm and thick in the head', although I believe it's also applied to other counties, lik the Wiltshire moonrakers.

Hi Helen I went to school in Beccles Suffolk and i have always known that they were called Silly Suffolk Rodders

Lots of christmas weddings in my lot too - I know it would have been one of the few days off available but did I also read somewhere that vicars waived the fees on that day? Interesting point about Suffolk. My dad, London through and through, used to use 'Silly Suffolk' which was quite often used as a mild derogatory term, though I believe natives claim it is from the old german Selig, meaning blessed or holy! Despite the London and Suffolk genes I was born and brought up in Essex. so the Essex girl insult grates a bit too.

oooh, the bit of my brain that is still working looked at the banns dates again and has decided this was probably another Christmas day wedding. I will have to get the cert when I can stump up the funds! nell

How come there's no slur on Suffolk? They escape the 'normal for Norfolk' tag and they aren't sneered at like Essex. Is Suffolk the acceptable face of East Anglia? No offence to anyone intended, just curious that as a county Suffolk doesn't seem to have any 'labels'.

:-) I'm quite proud that despite my Silly Suffolk genes I soptted the error

You're right. I'm bonkers! I can't help it, its genetic, I got it from my Norfolk lot, some of whom I've found in the asylum at Thorpe. Thanks nell

Hey its Norfolk - 'not quite the end of the world, but you can see it from there' so anything is possible, but surely the October quarter covers October, November and December so a marriage following those banns would just fall in that quarter.

Not got the cert yet, or checked parish marriage register, but whilst I was last at Norfolk RO looking through the Langley parish microfilm, I found Langley banns register has '1866. Octavius Gray, bachelor of Langley, Ellen Marston Roe, spinster of parish of Raveningham. Sunday 3 Dec 1866; Sunday 16 Dec; Sunday 17'. I wasn't primarily looking for Octavius as I hadn't yet found out he was part of my lot - in fact he was born OctaviAN! But having found the banns info, about a second before they shut the office, I went home and looked for the marriage in the GRO indexes and found: marriage ref 1866 Oct Loddon Volume: 4b Page: 567 Octavius Grey Ellen M Roe My query is - if the marriage was registered in Oct q how can the banns have been read the next month?! I've already found some Norfolk marriages that appear to be entered on two consecutive qs in the GRO index. nell

just looking at my Gray branch again