Rushbrooke Genealogical Records
Rushbrooke Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A searchable transcript of Rushbrooke baptism registers. The transcriptions essentially record births in and around Rushbrooke between 1567 and 1850.
A printed register documenting the baptism of people in and around Rushbrooke. They list parents' names - their occupations, residence and sometimes other details.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of birth and baptism records that cover over 250 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
An index to births registered at the central authority for England & Wales. The index provides the area where the birth was registered, mother's maiden name from September 1911 and a reference to order a birth certificate.
Rushbrooke Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Brief notes on marriages occurring in Rushbrooke from 1813 to 1836.
An index to marriages in between 1578 and 1600, listing the date of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
Marriage records from people who married at the church between 1572 and 1837.
A searchable transcript of marriages solemnised at Rushbrooke between 1567 and 1850.
Rushbrooke Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A searchable transcription of the burial registers of Rushbrooke. Burials are the primary source for pre-1837 death documentation. They may record the date and or death of the deceased, their age, residence, name of a relations and more.
An index of burials recorded at St Nicholas, Rushbrooke_. The index includes the name of the deceased, the date of burial, age (where available) and occasionally other notes.
A printed book recording burials in the churchyard of Rushbrooke. These records essentially record deaths in and around Rushbrooke between 1567 and 1850. Details may include the age of the deceased, their residence and name of relations.
An index to burials recorded at Quaker meetings. The records contain the name of the deceased, the date they were buried and their age.
Rushbrooke Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
A list of Suffolk householders and the number of hearths they possessed.
A list of taxes paid by heads of households.
Newspapers Covering Rushbrooke
A record of births, marriages, deaths, legal, political, organisation and other news from the Ipswich area. Original pages of the newspaper can be viewed and located by a full text search.
A local paper including news from the Ipswich area, legal & governmental proceedings, family announcements, business notices, advertisements and more.
A regional newspaper covering news and events in Norfolk and Suffolk. The newspaper contains numerous notices and articles useful to family historians, such as notices of birth, marriage and death.
A newspaper covering Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. Around 50% of issues from 1814-1817. Original images, searchable by an OCR index.
A London newspaper that later became The Sun.
Rushbrooke Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
Full transcriptions of around 1,400 17th century wills from the Archdeaconry of Sudbury in Suffolk. Contains an index of all the people and places mentioned in the wills.
Full transcriptions of several hundred early wills from the Archdeaconry of Sudbury in Suffolk.
An index to over 10,000 names occurring in Suffolk wills.
An index to early wills proved at the Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury and the Commissary Court of Bury St. Edmunds.
Rushbrooke Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Rushbrooke Military Records
An introductory history to an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army.
A calendar that lists most of the important dates in the history of the Regiment.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Suffolk, with some service details.
A list of names found on World War Two monuments in Suffolk, with some service details.
A searchable list of over 100,000 British Army POWs. Records contains details on the captured, their military career and where they were held prisoner.
Rushbrooke Court & Legal Records
Transcriptions and translations of pleas brought before a court. They largely concern land disputes. A number of cases relate to Suffolk.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Records of over 300,000 prisoners held by quarter sessions in England & Wales. Records may contain age, occupation, criminal history, offence and trial proceedings.
Over 175,000 records detailing prisoner's alleged offences and the outcome of their trial. Contains genealogical information.
Digital images of ledgers recording those registered to vote, searchable by an index of 220 million names. Entries list name, address, qualification to vote, description of property and sometimes age and occupation.
Rushbrooke Taxation Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A transcription of records naming those who had taxes levied against them for the privilege of owning a hearth.
A list of Suffolk householders and the number of hearths they possessed.
Rushbrooke Land & Property Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
Rushbrooke Directories & Gazetteers
A directory of settlements in Suffolk detailing their history, agriculture, topography, economy and leading commercial, professional and private residents.
Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private residents..
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
Rushbrooke Cemeteries
Photographs and descriptions of Suffolk's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Rushbrooke Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Rushbrooke Histories & Books
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Describes the parishes in the three hundreds of Wangford, Mutford and Lothingland, in the north-east of the county.
Histories of Suffolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
Histories of Norfolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
A traveller's guide to four Southern counties.
Rushbrooke School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Rushbrooke Occupation & Business Records
An introduction to smuggling on the east coast of England, with details of the act in various regions.
Profiles of coal and metal mines in the south of England.
Short histories of former public houses, with photographs and lists of owners or operators.
An index to and images of registers recording over 3.7 million trade union members.
Books listing doctors who were licensed to operate in Britain and abroad. Contains doctor's residencies, qualification and date of registration.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Rushbrooke
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Rushbrooke Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and descriptions of Suffolk's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Over 600 pedigrees for English and Welsh families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Rushbrooke Church Records
The parish registers of Rushbrooke provide details of births, marriages and deaths from 1567 to 1850. Parish registers can assist tracing a family as far back as 1567.
A printed book comprised of baptism, marriage and burial transcriptions from the registers of the church at Rushbrooke. These records document relations between people, detail where they live and may offer other details such as occupations.
Histories of Suffolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
Histories of Norfolk's parish churches, illustrated with a plethora of photographs.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Biographical Directories Covering Rushbrooke
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Rushbrooke Maps
A collection of maps plotting the counties of Essex and Suffolk, and some of their settlements.
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Rushbrooke Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
Rushbrooke, formerly the, beautiful seat of the noble family of the Jermyns, Lord Dover, but now belonging to Sir Charles Davers, Bart.
RUSHBROOKE is a parish on the east bank of the river Lark, 1 ½ miles north-east from Whelnetham station on the Sudbury and Bury St. Edmunds railway and 3 south-east from Bury St. Edmunds, in the North Western division of the county, Thingoe and Thedwastre petty sessional division, Thedwestry hundred, Thingoe union, county court district of Bury St. Edmunds, rural deanery of Horningshearth, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Nicholas is a small building of stone and flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the chapel in the south aisle and the chancel contain several monuments of the Jermyns, and there are marble monuments to the Rushbrooke family in the south aisle, and tablets to the Davers and Moyle families: over the communion table is a stained window: the pulpit and nave are richly decorated with oak carvings: there are 200 sittings. The registers date from the year 1568. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Bradfield St. George, net yearly value £412, with 14 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol, and held since 1884 by the Rev. George Fuancis Turner MA. of Trinity College, Oxford, hon. canon of Ely and J.P. Suff. who resides at Bradfield St. George: the Rev. Robert Gibson B.A. rector of Little Whelnetham, has been curate since 1894. The almshouse here was rebuilt in 1700, and endowed by Thomas Lord Jermyn for four poor persons, who are allowed 2s. per week, with a supply of firing yearly, arising from a yearly rent-charge on the family mansion of the Marquess of Bristol, in St. James' square, London, and from land in Bury St. Edmunds; the charity is in the hands of two trustees, viz.:-Rev. G, F. Turner MA., J.P. & R. W. J. Rushbrooke esq. Here is a lake of 6 acres, used for boating, fishing and skating. Rushbrooke Hall, the seat of Robert Wyndham Jermyn Rushbrooke esq. is a splendid moated mansion, standing in a well-wooded park of 150 acres; it forms three sides of a quadrangle, the front facing the south; the east wing was built in the reign of King John; the west wing belongs to the Elizabethan period; the entrance hall contains many trophies of arms: in the east wing are the dining-room and other apartments: the library is in the west wing, where many old manuscripts and paintings of the early masters are preserved: passing through this apartment, the drawing-room is reached where Queen Elizabeth held her court in 1578, and it contains some of the furniture used at that time, which is in good preservation: adjoining is the old Catholic chapel, now used as a billiard room, near to which is the royal chest, where the richly embroidered day and night dresses of the Pretender are preserved: the grand staircase, leading to the royal and other bedrooms, is hung with tapestry. R. W. J. Rushbrooke esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay and chalk; subsoil, chalk and loam. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,051 acres of land and 12 of water; assessable value, £726; the population in 1891 was 136.
The children of this parish attend little Whelnetham. school.
Most Common Surnames in Rushbrooke
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Thedwastre Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crack | 16 | 1:8 | 8.56% | 404 |
| 2 | Coleman | 15 | 1:9 | 3.24% | 120 |
| 3 | Pettit | 7 | 1:19 | 1.73% | 148 |
| 3 | Risby | 7 | 1:19 | 10.77% | 1,073 |
| 5 | Wright | 6 | 1:23 | 0.27% | 4 |
| 5 | Hart | 6 | 1:23 | 0.80% | 53 |
| 7 | Parker | 5 | 1:27 | 0.47% | 22 |
| 7 | Last | 5 | 1:27 | 0.41% | 16 |
| 7 | Alderton | 5 | 1:27 | 1.57% | 214 |
| 7 | Sturgeon | 5 | 1:27 | 1.32% | 164 |
| 11 | Lord | 4 | 1:34 | 2.31% | 439 |
| 11 | Tilson | 4 | 1:34 | 66.67% | 4,877 |
| 13 | Simpson | 3 | 1:45 | 0.40% | 55 |
| 13 | Sharpe | 3 | 1:45 | 1.44% | 353 |
| 13 | Bowers | 3 | 1:45 | 0.93% | 207 |
| 13 | Hewett | 3 | 1:45 | 4.17% | 994 |
| 13 | Catchpole | 3 | 1:45 | 0.47% | 71 |
| 13 | Bakewell | 3 | 1:45 | 30.00% | 3,464 |
| 19 | Johnson | 2 | 1:68 | 0.25% | 41 |
| 19 | Cook | 2 | 1:68 | 0.10% | 5 |
| 19 | Searle | 2 | 1:68 | 8.33% | 2,116 |
| 19 | Cornish | 2 | 1:68 | 0.63% | 214 |
| 19 | Redman | 2 | 1:68 | 100.00% | 7,894 |
| 19 | Avis | 2 | 1:68 | 2.20% | 818 |
| 19 | Palfrey | 2 | 1:68 | 1.34% | 503 |
| 19 | Telson | 2 | 1:68 | 100.00% | 7,894 |
| 27 | Hunt | 1 | 1:135 | 0.10% | 26 |
| 27 | Harvey | 1 | 1:135 | 0.09% | 21 |
| 27 | Reynolds | 1 | 1:135 | 0.16% | 73 |
| 27 | Barrett | 1 | 1:135 | 0.36% | 257 |
| 27 | Browning | 1 | 1:135 | 1.56% | 1,080 |
| 27 | Challis | 1 | 1:135 | 0.88% | 658 |
| 27 | Maidment | 1 | 1:135 | 25.00% | 6,084 |
| 27 | Ranson | 1 | 1:135 | 0.34% | 237 |
| 27 | Murton | 1 | 1:135 | 0.69% | 519 |
| 27 | Eyres | 1 | 1:135 | 100.00% | 9,362 |
| 27 | Jaggard | 1 | 1:135 | 1.27% | 920 |
| 27 | Simper | 1 | 1:135 | 1.28% | 935 |
| 27 | Everatt | 1 | 1:135 | 100.00% | 9,362 |
| 27 | Snare | 1 | 1:135 | 2.94% | 1,694 |
| 27 | Rushbrooke | 1 | 1:135 | 2.86% | 1,649 |
| 27 | Pulfer | 1 | 1:135 | 2.17% | 1,356 |