West Stow Parish Registers 1558 To 1850

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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book West Stow Parish Registers, 1558 to 1850 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from West Stow Parish Registers, 1558 to 1850: Wordwell Parish Registers, 1580 to 1850, With Sundry Notes This volume, the fifth of its series, contains the registers of two small parishes in West Suffolk. It also contains so much of the history of those two parishes as a few months delving could reveal. Two parishes, West Stow and Word well, lie contiguous, and are alike in possessing a large acreage of delightfully-barren sandy soil and a large population of rabbits. Historically they have not gone together, but each has followed a line of its own. Not till 1799 were they united manorially; not till 1828 were they united ecclesiastically. It therefor would have been better if I had not united them in this volume. It would have been better if West Stow had been united in a volume with Little Saxham, and Word well might have gone with Ickworth. For the history of the lords of the manor is a considerable chapter in the ascertainable part of the history of any parish. And if you deal with the same family in two different volumes, you are always either repeating in the one what you have already said in the other, or else referring to it. You must do one or the other, though both are troublesome. I have generally chosen the latter. For instance: the Crofts family belongs alike to Little Saxham and to West Stow. I have given their history with a certain measure of fulness in the Little Saxham volume, and what is said of them in this volume is mostly additional. But I have had to be continually referring to the former volume. The two halls or manor houses dealt with in this volume, West Stow and Word well, may be likened and may be contrasted in these respects. Both stand to day where they were put by some one when the Norman conquest of England was a thing of yesterday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.