Volunteering for Suffolk Archives

2025-2026

Agnes Strickland (1796 – 1874)

Cataloguing a collection of Agnes Strickland’s correspondence. She was an historian, famous in her lifetime for her Lives of the Queens of England. She lived for many years at Reydon Hall and in Southwold.

2024-2025

St Audry’s Asylum, Melton

Part of a team indexing patients’ admission records from the second half of C19th to early C20th. With over 7000 admission records in the collection, this is a big project.

2024

Pauper migrants to Quebec

We explored the lives of paupers from Thelnetham in west Suffolk who were funded by the parish to leave the village for new lives in Canada in the 1830s.

Military Tribunal records, Bury St Edmunds, WW1

Lionel Jenkins, County Surveyor for West Suffolk, was granted conditional exemption from military service but eventually had to ‘join the colours’

I helped to record some very rare case papers and did some in-depth research into a number of the men involved. Find out more at https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/be-inspired/communityprojects/wwi-tribunals

2023

Ampton Military Hospital, West Suffolk, WW1

Page from Hazelwood’s scrapbook, held by Suffolk Archives

I researched the lives and times of patients who signed Alfred Hazelwood’s autograph book, compiled when he was head orderly and chauffeur at the hospital.

2022

Women’s Land Army, Suffolk, WW2

I helped compile a database of women working in Suffolk for the Women’s Land Army. This was to add to the roll-call of WLA woman serving in the County and part of Nicky Reynolds’ and Vicky Abbot’s project, Soil Sisters.

2020 – 2024

Jewish refugees in Suffolk, WW2

There will be a link here to the Jewish refugees’ pages when I work out how to do it. In the meantime, have a browse around and you will find them.