Taken from the archives of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History: S/SEC/4/1, dated 1858
16. Biographical Notices, or remarks upon
deceased persons.
At Hutton:
“1659. A man child of Frances
& Jone Drury still born, was buried the fifth day of Feberary.
“1687. William an Indian slave
taken from about Bombay in the East Indies, was baptised the twenty fifth day
of September, he not remembering the name of his parents took to himself the
sirname of Bombay, and at his baptism received the Christian name of Williams.
“1702. Bap by a Dissenting
Minister Henry Prior, the son of John and Anna Hunt April ye 17th.”
At Purleigh:
“May 6 1714. Elizabeth Homes, a vagabond wandring woman,
were sick & weak was by ye Overseers of Norton shot out of a tumbrell at ye
round bush in our Parish, & there had perished had not our Overseer Jn.
Laver fetched her into his barn & laid her in a bed, & fed her with
nourishing things for a fortnight, & yn she died & was buried in ye
Churchyard, & was carried token grave be ye Churchwardens & Overseers
of ye poor of this Parish & affidavit was made. She was a gentlewoman of
some note, born at ye West Indies. She said her father was governor of an
Island there & yt her husband & child was drowned a getting a board ye
ship at wh she was discharged”
“November 9th
1717. William Dummerboough a single man
was buried being a very rotten youth.”
At Tendring:
“A man found murdered in the
fields of Tendring was buried Aug 14 1704.
“1737. An infant with 10 fingers & 12 toes.”
Several travellers are
recorded at Roxwell. In addition:
“1745. Jan 31. Fryday. A
person found dead on Radley Green on Wednesday the 29th Jany guesed
to be between 30 & 40 yrs old.”
At East Hanningfield it is
noted that “a Burial Tax of Threepence first noticed Nov 7 1790 also Baptisms
May 23 1790, but not mentioned, when the Word Pauper is written. It ceased in
September 1794.”
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