This site will always be 'Work in Progress' as is my Family Tree. My love of 
all things' Genealogy' started out as a very lonely task when my beloved father died.
I felt the need to know more about his life and his parents.... One day I went 
to the local church warden and said "May I look at the parish registers?" The 
rest is history (excuse the pun) In just those registers, in just one day, I 
had the bare bones of 4 generations of Wentworths who were all born, baptised 
(or not) lived, worked, loved, married, cried and died in a small fishing 
village on the east coast. I was hooked, I have 'met' many lovely 'rellies', 
spoke to many 'cousins' (one, two, three, four, five times removed) had so 
much help and input from like minded people. Many names on my tree are from 
people researching the same names, and hopefully I have also helped to put a 
few 'leaves' on for other folks trees. Isn't this all about sharing? I would 
like to mention a few of the names of the people who have helped me along the 
way, but obviously I need their permission first, if you are reading this 
please sign my guest book 'Just to say you stopped by'.  Enjoy.


The Flag of St Edmunds



       

I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume and the seagull crying.

I must go down to the sea again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife:
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover,
And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trek's over.
                                            by John Masefield

ACKER BILK Stranger on the Shore


Census Dates: 
1841 night of 6th/7th June    1851 night of 30th/31st March
1861 night of 7th/8th April     1871 night of 2nd/3rd April
1881 night of 3rd/4th April     1891 night of 5th/6th April
1901 night of 31 March/1st April.

Southwold Census:
Some older census information as follows:
In the year 1750 it was reported 140 houses and 666 souls
In 1801 there were 270 houses and 1,172 souls
In 1821 there were 1,676 souls
In 1831 there were 2,079 souls