{"id":1291,"date":"2024-02-20T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1291"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:16:58","slug":"great-easton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp\/parish-register-transcriptions\/essex\/great-easton\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Easton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1284\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonknott.co.uk\/essexchurches\/geaston.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1284\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp\/parish-register-transcriptions\/essex\/great-easton\/great-easton\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,427\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Great Easton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;St John and St Giles, Great Easton&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1284\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonknott.co.uk\/essexchurches\/geaston.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St John and St Giles, Great Easton<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EASTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 2\u00bd miles (N N W) from Great Dunmow, containing 755 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king&#8217;s books at \u00a38 13 4, and in the patronage of R Saumarez, Esq and Lord Viscount Maynard alternately. The church is dedicated to St John. In 1759, Rebecca Mead bequeathed tenements and land, now producing \u00a338 per annum, for clothing and teaching ten girls; and in 1761, Charles, Lord Maynard, endowed a school for six boys of this parish, and six of Little Easton. There is a small sum for apprenticing children.<br \/>\nSamuel Lewis <i>A Topographical Dictionary of England <\/i>1831<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Baptisms-DP-232-1-1-1561-1749.pdf\">Great Easton Baptisms DP 232-1-1 1561-1749<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Baptisms-DP-232-1-2-1750-1812.pdf\">Great Easton Baptisms DP 232-1-2 1750-1812<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Burials-DP-232-1-1-1561-1749.pdf\">Great Easton Burials DP 232-1-1 1561-1749<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Burials-DP-232-1-2-1750-1812.pdf\">Great Easton Burials DP 232-1-2 1750-1812<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Marriages-DP-232-1-1-1561-1749.pdf\">Great Easton Marriages DP 232-1-1 1561-1749<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Great-Easton-Marriages-DP-232-1-2-and-DP-232-1-2a-1750-1812.pdf\">Great Easton Marriages DP 232-1-2 and DP 232-1-2a 1750-1812<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further registers for Great Easton are included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freereg.org.uk\/freereg_contents\/53cbf5d7eca9eb03a600347c?locale=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FreeREG database.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Easton is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wikishire.co.uk\/wiki\/Dunmow_Hundred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dunmow Hundred<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/rchme\/essex\/vol1\/pp125-128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History<\/a> of Great Easton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk\/gteaston\/gteaston.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local history group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 2\u00bd miles (N N W) from Great Dunmow, containing 755 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king&#8217;s books at \u00a38 13 4, and in the patronage of R Saumarez, Esq and &#8230; <a title=\"Great Easton\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp\/parish-register-transcriptions\/essex\/great-easton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Great Easton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1291","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291\/revisions\/1292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmh-genealogy.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}