We do not yet have a
searchable online catalogue of our collections. However a
large number of our archive catalogues can be searched and read in
full on the
Access to Archives
(A2A) web site.
A2A is part of the growing national archive network in the UK,
together with sister projects in Scotland and in British
universities and colleges. The network provides information about
archives - 800 years of the UK's documentary heritage - on the
World Wide Web, to make this heritage more easily accessible to
everyone.
Catalogues of 1692 Suffolk Record Office archive collections are
currently available on the A2A site. In summary they include:
Bury St Edmunds Record Office (750 collections)
- borough quarter sessions;
- Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury boroughs;
- ecclesiastical parishes;
- family and estate collections:
Barnardiston;
Blake of Langham;
Bunbury of Great Barton and Mildenhall;
Elwes of Stoke College;
Hengrave Hall;
Hervey of Ickworth, Lords Bristol;
Kentwell Hall;
Oakes of Nowton Court;
Pocklington of Chelsworth;
Weller-Poley of Boxted.
- hospitals;
- many photographic collections, including the Spanton-Jarman
collection;
- most businesses;
- most charities;
- most parish council collections;
- most school collections;
- most societies;
- petty sessions;
- rural deaneries;
- some Women's Institutes;
- the Suffolk Regiment archive;
- urban and rural district councils;
- West Suffolk Health Authority;
- West Suffolk quarter sessions.
Ipswich Record Office (908 collections)
- Aldeburgh and Eye borough;
- drainage authorities;
- ecclesiastical parishes;
- family and estate collections:
Blois of Yoxford;
Loraine of Bramford;
Rous, Earls of Stradbroke;
Rowley of Tendring Hall;
Thellussons, Barons
Rendlesham.
- hospitals;
- Ipswich borough quarter sessions;
- Ipswich Town Football Club;
- many photographic collections, including the East Anglian
Magazine Photographic archive;
- miscellaneous collections of maps;
- most businesses including Garretts, engineers of Leiston;
- most parish councils;
- most Women's Institutes;
- petty sssions;
- some charities;
- Suffolk quarter sessions;
- the Iveagh manuscripts;
- urban and rural district councils.
Lowestoft Record Office (34 collections)
- Adair family of Flixton;
- Bungay Town Trust;
- some charities;
- Southwold quarter sessions.
Please
contact us for further information on these collections.