High Laver

All Saints, High Laver

LAVER (HIGH), a parish in the hundred of ONGAR, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (N N W) from Chipping-Ongar, containing 464 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £14 1 8, and in the patronage of the Rev Philip Budworth. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Here is a National school. The celebrated John Locke resided at the mansion-house of Otes in this parish, during the last two years of his life; he died in October 1704, and was interred on the south side of the church-yard: over his remains is a black marble tomb, enclosed within iron rails, and on the wall of the church is his epitaph in Latin, composed by himself.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831


High Laver baptisms DP 111-1-1 1593-1741

High Laver marriages DP 111-1-1 1616-1753

High Laver burials DP 111-1-1 1614-1741

Further registers for High Laver are included in the FreeReg database.