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A Group for anyone that has web-footed ancestors from the flat area of of eastern England located particularly around The Wash, including towns such as Boston, Spalding, Wisbech, Whittlesey, Ely and Kings Lynn

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Are you someone whose anc

estors came from the Fenlands of eastern England, which cover parts of five different English counties? The area includes north Cambridgeshire, south Lincolnshire, west Norfolk, small parts of Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire ...and a sixth county if you include the Isle of Ely. Frustrating isn't it, visiting all those different record offices to track your elusive ancestor just to the next parish! Hopefully this Group will be a useful meeting point to share tips, knowledge and advice.

My ancestors came from the Cambridgeshire Fenland. My great x 5 uncle Charles sold his wife for 1 guinea in Wisbech market. My great-great grandfather Levi fell into a drainage canal and drowned while catching water voles. Whoever said the Fens were a boring place?!

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Useful links: Fenland FHS
Cambridgeshire FHS
Lincolnshire FHS
Norfolk FHS
Peterborough & District FHS
Lincolnshire Marriage Index

Parish Churches in and around Peterborough
Wisbech and the Fenlands

GenealogyWise Groups:
England Family History
Lincolnshire Genealogy
Norfolk Ancestors
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Comment by Tina Wells on August 17, 2009 at 2:42pm: Another useful link - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/

Comment by John Laws on August 9, 2009 at 2:02pm: Hi Everyone
I am John Laws, a member of the Guild of One Name Studies, researching LAW, LAWE, LAWES, LAWS, LAWSE World-Wide though my own LAWS family came from the Stepney/Bethnal Green/Mile End area and were mostly Mariners, and my earliest is Henry son of John & Mary Laws from Walworth, Surrey, fairly newly built when he was born in 1800.
I have collected a huge database The LAWS FAMILY REGISTER

We have our own group on this site, LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
Our own website www.lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
and also I moderate the LAW@Rootsweb & LAWS-UK@Rootsweb groups,

So if you have LAWS from the Fens, we have loads

Hope we can give mutual help

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