EASTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 2½ 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’s books at £8 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 £38 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.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Great Easton Baptisms DP 232-1-1 1561-1749
Great Easton Baptisms DP 232-1-2 1750-1812
Great Easton Burials DP 232-1-1 1561-1749
Great Easton Burials DP 232-1-2 1750-1812
Great Easton Marriages DP 232-1-1 1561-1749
Great Easton Marriages DP 232-1-2 and DP 232-1-2a 1750-1812
Further registers for Great Easton are included in the FreeREG database.
- Great Easton is part of the Dunmow Hundred
- History of Great Easton
- local history group
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