GREAT HORKSLEY, a parish in the Colchester division of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX, 1¾ mile (S S W) from Nayland, containing 623 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £15. The Countess de Grey was patroness in 1817. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The navigable river Stour runs on the northern side of this parish.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)
Great Horkesley Baptisms DP 205-1-1 1558-1685
Great Horkesley Baptisms DP 205-1-2 1685-1720
Great Horkesley Baptisms DP 205-1-4 1721-1793
Great Horkesley Burials DP 205-1-1 1558-1640 1660-1678
Great Horkesley Burials DP 205-1-2 1695-1742
Great Horkesley Burials DP 205-1-4 1741-1793
Great Horkesley Marriages DP 205-1-1 1558-1612
Great Horkesley Marriages DP 205-1-2 1685-1741
Great Horkesley Marriages DP 205-1-4 1741-1754
Further transcripts can be found here courtesy of Helen Barrell
Further registers for Great Horkesley are included in the FreeREG database.
- Great Horkesley is part of the Lexden Hundred
- Great Horkesley Manor
- history of Great Horkesley
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