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Subject: Re: Manorial rolls
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:45:13 EDT


Thank you for your well-phrased e-mail concerning the availability of
manorial records and an index to their whereabouts and some of the legislative
history pertaining to their repositories..

Unfortunately, I had already been to Ipswich (on a trip to England). As I
was staying in London not too far from Chancery lane, when I decided to visit
the then-obscure little repository of the index (or whatever one might call
it) of manorial records.

What I found was interesting. Instead of cards (index cards, we call them
in the US) I found tiny pieces of paper (approximately 3X5) handwritten with
some coding on them. I found that the manorial records which I was seeking
were held at the Suffolk Record Office. Well, in genealogy, you win some, you
lose some. (I am sure that everything has now changed since that little
adventure.)

However, I had discovered that for the time period ca 1857 in which my
ancestor was a gamekeeper in Snape-Saxmundham area, there was a gamekeepers
register. And it was from that register, that I learned that my ancestor's
employer was Lord William Long, who held a number of manors.

This is what was recorded in one of the several columns:

Hurts, ["in Saxmundham" inserted on top line], Swans ["in Saxmundham"
inserted above second line], Saxmundham Market, Virlies [inserted above "in S
ternfield"] Mundevilles [inserted "in Fressingfield"] and Farnham Hall in the
County of Suffolk.

At least, I had some partial success. Like all genealogists, however, one
always wants to know the answer to the next question which comes up!!!

Thanks for the information. As an overseas *cousin*, I appreciate your
sharing.

E.W.Wallace


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