Welcome toThe Cobbold Family History Trust
Our website
We offer pre-arranged free access to all visitors wishing to know more about the Cobbold and related families. The Trust is committed to collecting and conserving the family histories and artifacts for the benefit of present and future generations
Event Updates
Talk in Monks Eleigh – March 2025
Thanks to Monks Eleigh History Group for hosting our Keeper Katherine for a talk on the Cobbold Family and the Trust last week.
Happy New Year!
Everyone at the Cobbold Family History Trust would like to wish all family members and friends a peaceful, prosperous and joyful 2025.
Season’s Greetings!
The Trustees, Keeper and everyone connected with the Cobbold Family History Trust would like to pass on their best wishes to all our website visitors. If you would like to be added to our email mailing list, please send Katherine a message: cobboldtrust@knebworthhouse.com. The archive will be closed from 2:50pm on Tuesday 17th December, re-opening on Tuesday 7th January 2025.
A Blue Plaque for Elizabeth Cobbold
We are pleased that Elizabeth Cobbold (#58 on the family tree) is to be honoured with a Blue Plaque. This will be unveiled at Holywells in Ipswich on Saturday 30th November at 10.30am.
An excellent review for GRANMAN!
We are pleased to report an excellent review of Granman on the Amazon website: A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR Historians of social history will forever be indebted to Anthony Cobbold. He has dedicated his life in retirement to chart the lives and times of his notable East Anglian family with such care and precision. His Cobbold Family History Trust Family Tree is a work of great historical value. This memoir is a wonderful read. Honest, moving and so kind. Anthony has enjoyed a very successful business career, much of it down to his inimitable charm and thought for others. One of the finest memoirs I have read in a very long while. Highly, highly recommended. Richard, www.amazon.co.uk
GRANMAN
We have added on Amazon a new book by Trust founder, Anthony Cobbold. Published by the Trust, it is an autobiography written primarily for his grandchildren (of which he says there seem to be rather a lot!). It includes a chapter titled ‘You cannot put a price on a family archive,’ quoted from the BBC Antiques Roadshow of May 2010. This chapter and three appendices describe the early days of the Trust, give it a timeline and provide a listing of some of the extraordinary and influential people on the family tree. An easy and useful reference. Of course we recommend it! Granman – A Life of Luck and Love: Amazon.co.uk: Anthony Cobbold, with Clive Hodges: 9780993211775: Books
