Taken from the archives of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History: S/SEC/4/1, dated 1858
15. Periods of great mortality, especially of
the Great Plague year.
Periods of great mortality at
Barking: “1593, 1603, 1625, 1665, 1666, 1729. In these years the mortality was
double the average, or thereabouts: except 1603 by far the most fatal year,
& in which there was more than 3 times the average.”
Only one burial is reported at
Birdbrook in the Plague year – 1665.
“There was no great mortality
in the Plague year” at Roxwell,”– 2 deaths described as ‘of London’ in 1665,
and 3 baptisms in the same year, parent similarly described – as tho’ Londoners
were taking refuge in the country.”
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