Records

Church Registers and Records

The current Baptism Register and current Funeral Register for Assington are held in Bures for safekeeping.

All past and older records are now held in The Hold, on Ipswich Waterfront, in Ipswich. Millions of records dating back to 1538 are now available online for the first time.

Records digitised include full-colour, high-quality digital images of parish registers from across the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

Access to records will be free at The Hold in Ipswich – the home of Suffolk Archives and at Suffolk Libraries.

Viewing from home will require an Ancestry subscription. Royalties will be used to support archive services.

The project has helped preserve fragile historic documents by reducing wear and tear. Suffolk Archives were also able to carry out conservation checks during the process.