Society of Genealogists - England: Suffolk Resources

Suffolk

Shelf Mark: SF

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-B | C-F | G-M | N-S | T-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Suffolk parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 7 part 1 Suffolk. London: SoG, 2001. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

A guide to Suffolk parish registers & churchyard inscriptions [SF/R 1]

Parish records survey: report of the survey in the county of East Suffolk & in the Archdeaconries of Ipswich & Suffolk in the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Suffolk [Suffolk tracts box]

Suffolk Record Office: guide to genealogical sources. 4th edn. [SF/G 51]

Suffolk Record Office guide to genealogical sources, part 1: parish registers & associated sources, part 3: nonconformist records, part 5: civil registration & part 6: local authority cemetery registers, Sept 1998 [SF/G 51A-B]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

East Anglian marriages mainly before 1700 series 1 & East Anglian marriages before 1812 series 2 [Typescript.] [SF/R 285-286]

Index to the Bishops Transcripts for 1630 for 147 West Suffolk parishes [Typescript.] [SF/R 2]

Index to the Bishops Transcripts for 1696-97 for over 200 West Suffolk parishes [Typescript.] [SF/R 3]

The Ipswich Magazine for the year 1799 & for Jan - Feb 1800 [SF/PER (Store A)]

Norfolk, Norwich & Suffolk Strays, vol. 1 [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet (NF/GEN)]

Out of area collection 1, 1975-76 [UK/REG]

Quaker digest of Suffolk: Z(I) 1641-1837, M(I) 1662-1837, B(I) 1655-1837 [SF/R 20] & [CD-ROM.] [SOGNET]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Suffolk Quarterly Meeting: Z 1653-1837 & 1641-1711, M 1662-1836 & 1668-1757, B 1655-1837 & 1670-1730 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3369]

Suffolk burial index (Start dates variable, but most finish circa 1900) [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (SF/REG)]

Suffolk marriage index 1813-37, vol. 1- ongoing [SF/R 277-278]

Marriage licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]

Allegations for marriage licences in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury ... 1684-1839, parts 1-4: Harleian Society, vols. 69-72 [HARL]

A collection of pedigrees of Norfolk & Suffolk families, wills & marriage licences: Campling collection [Microfilm.] [Mf 953-962]

Index of the marriage licence bonds 1715-34 for Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire preserved in the Norfolk Record Office vols. 1-2: grooms Abbitt to Yull with indexes of brides: Norfolk Historical Aids 27-28 [NF/PER]

Marriage licence bonds in the Suffolk Archdeaconry Registry at Ipswich, 1663-1750 [SF/R 273 & ML/SUF]

Marriage licences from the official notebooks of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk deposited at the Ipswich Probate Court, 1613-74 & 1675-1707 [Manuscript.] [SF/R 272 & 274]

Marriage licences of the Consistory Court at Norwich, 1563-88: index [Typescript.] [ML/NOR]

Norfolk & Suffolk marriage licences from the Campling Collection; 16th to 18th centuries ..., vols. 1-5 [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

The chorography of Suffolk: Suffolk Records Society, vol. 19 [SF/PER]

A guide to Suffolk parish registers & churchyard inscriptions [SF/R 1]

In a country churchyard [SF/G 57]

Knights on Suffolk brasses & Ladies on Suffolk brasses [SF/M 16-17]

Suffolk churchyard inscriptions copied from the Darby transcription (made about 1824-46), part 1: hundreds of Babergh, Blackbourn, Blything, & Bosmere & Claydon; part 2: hundreds of Carlford, Colneis, Cosford, Hartismere, Hoxne, Lackford & Loes; part 3: hundreds of Mutford, Lothingland, Plomesgate, Risbridge, Samford, Stow, Thedwestry & part of Thingoe [SF/M 8]

Suffolk heraldic brasses [SF/M 15]

Suffolk monumental inscriptions [bibliographies of printed & unprinted transcripts]: Register of English monumental inscriptions, vol. 2, part 4, pp 126-131 [MI/GEN]

Suffolk monumental inscriptions to 1820, vol. 1-2 [Manuscript.] [SF/M 1]

The Suffolk records, vol. 1, parts 1-10 (1888) [collections of deeds, wills, court rolls, rent rolls, registers, gravestones & MIs, plans, tracings, pedigrees, biographical notices, entries from Bibles, letters, etc.] [SF/G 33]

Thomas Mills's Tomb House & other unusual burials in Suffolk: Suffolk monumental inscriptions vol. 6 [Photocopy.] [SF/M 18]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Southwold 1821 census

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

Suffolk - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

Suffolk - DIRECTORIES

or Suffolk - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com (formerly 1837online.com)

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

Suffolk - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-B

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue