Great Parndon

St Mary the Virgin, Great Parndon

PARNDON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of HARLOW, county of ESSEX, 3½ miles (SW by W) from Harlow, containing 396 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king’s books at £16 10 7½ and in the patronage of the Hon WTLP Wellesley.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)


DP 184-1-1 image 1
There is no registry of burials from 1645 to 1657. The reason given that some clergyman did not make any entries
image 20 (baptisms)
register not kept for about 14 or 15 years all the time on Mr Jeremiah Dikes being here. [Rector from 1646-1784]image 46 (burials)
the register was not looked to all the time of Mr Dikes being here which was about 14 or 15 years [gap in entries 1645-1657]

Great Parndon baptisms DP 184-1-1 1548-1703

Great Parndon marriages DP 184-1-1 1548-1703

Great Parndon burials DP 184-1-1 1548-1680

Great Parndon burials DP 184-1-2 1678-1703

Further registers for Great Parndon are included in the FreeReg database.


  • Great Parndon is in the Harlow Hundred
  • History of Great Parndon