Photo:  Ian Rose

 

All Saints, Little Canfield

Essex, England

 

Parish Church Registers
LDS Microfilm No. 1471966
Transcribed by Darlene Heal (May 2001)
 
General Registers                 1561 – 1726
General Registers                 1729 – 1812
Marriage                               1754 – 1812
Banns                                    1794 – 1816
Baptism                                1813 – 1891
Marriage                               1814 – 1837
Banns                                    1828 – 1918
 
[Note:  A number of pages in the 1561 to 1812 registers were either too dark or faint to read,all of the entries, and even with the hard to read pages, I do not believe there were any Hockley entries recorded before 1774.]
 

MARRIAGE
December 2?, 1774
Banns of Marriage between Henry Hockley and Mary Horsenell were published on three Sundays – 
November 27th – December 4th & 11th with Impediments.
The said Henry Hockley of this Parish, Bachelor and the said Mary Horsenell of this Parish, Spinster were 
married in this Church by Banns.
In the presence of: Thomas Colyor and Elizabeth Horsenell.
 
MARRIAGE WITNESS
October 15, 1776
Henry Hockley witnessed the marriage between Henry Little and Elizabeth (Perchey?).
 
BAPTISM
November 24, 1776
Jemima the daughter of Henry and Mary Hockley.
 
BAPTISM
May 9, 1779
William son of Henry and Mary Hockley of Takely Parish.
 
BURIAL
August 11, 1784
Henry Hockley, Farmer Hoddins
 
No. 10
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between William Hockley of the Parish of Great Dunmow, Widower and 
Sarah Stokes of this Parish, Spinster, were published on the three Sundays underwritten:
That is to say, On Sunday, the 17th August 1800
                       On Sunday, the 24th August 1800
                       On Sunday, the 31st August 1800
 
No. 96
BAPTISM
June 3, 1821
Jemima of Henry and Mary Hockley. Abode: Little Canfield. Labourer.
 
No. 137
BAPTISM
January 4, 1824
William Hockley Perrin son of William and Elizabeth Perrin.
Abode: Little Canfield.  Labourer
More Perrin Family Details
 
MARRIAGE WITNESS
February 28, 1824
Jane Hockley witnessed the marriage between John Marshall and Mary Ann Carst.
 
No. 151
BAPTISM
November 7, 1824
George of Henry and Mary Hockley. Abode: Takely. Labourer.
 
No. 219
BAPTISM
February 15, 1829
Kezia of Henry and Mary Hockley. Abode: Takely. Labourer.
 
No. 232
BAPTISM
July 10, 1830
James of Henry and Mary Hockley. Abode: Takely. Labourer.
 
No. 7
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between Charles Marshall of the Parish of Henham, Bachelor and Jane Hockley
of this Parish, Spinster, were published:
1st   Time  18 September 1831
2nd  Time  25 September 1831
3rd  Time  (?) October     1831
 
MARRIAGE
October 12, 1831
Charles Marshall of the Parish of Henham and Jane Hockley of this Parish were married in this Church by Banns.
In the presence of: John Marshall and James Sutton.
 
No. 263
BAPTISM
March 30, 1834
Kerenhappuch of Henry and Mary Hockley. Abode: Little Canfield. Labourer.
 
[What an unusual name, Kerenhappuch!" At first I thought I was not interpreting the letters correctly, then while transcribing the registers from the Takeley Parish Church I can across the name again, mind you it was one hundred years earlier with an equal sign between the two names:  May 14, 1732—Keren = Happuch daughter of John Farmer was baptized.]  
No. 582
January 8, 1865
Charlotte Jane of Simon and Charlotte Harrington. Abode: Little Canfield. Farmer.
[NOTE:  Simon Harrington and Charlotte Hockley married October 16, 1862 in Takeley, Essex]
No. 595
March 11, 1866
Henry Simon of Simon and Charlotte Harrington. Abode: Little Canfield. Farmer.
[NOTE:  Simon Harrington and Charlotte Hockley married October 16, 1862 in Takeley, Essex]
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between Charles Little of this Parish, Bachelor and Emma Hockley also of this
Parish, Spinster, were published:
1st   Time  21 July     1867
2nd  Time  28 July     1867
3rd   Time    4 August 1867
 
No. 613
March 8, 1868
Fred Herbert of Simon and Charlotte Harrington. Abode: Little Canfield. Farmer.
[NOTE:  Simon Harrington and Charlotte Hockley married October 16, 1862 in Takeley, Essex]
 
No. 644
April 14, 1872
Charles Hockley Harrington of Simon and Charlotte Harrington. Abode: Little Canfield. Farmer.
[NOTE:  Simon Harrington and Charlotte Hockley married October 16, 1862 in Takeley, Essex]
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between Henry Hockley, Bachelor and Jane Witham, Spinster both of this Parish, were published:
1st   Time    3 December (1875 or 76?)
2nd  Time  10 December
3rd  Time  17 December
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between Thomas Hockley of this Parish, Bachelor and Elizabeth Thurley of this Parish, Spinster, were published:
1st   Time  29 September 1878
2nd  Time    6 October
3rd  Time  13 October
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between James Hockley, Bachelor and Matilda Cheshire, Spinster, both of this 
Parish were published:
1st   Time  18 April 1880
2nd  Time  25 April
3rd  Time    2 May
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between Charles Sweeting of the Parish of Great Dunmow, Bachelor and Ellen Jane Mary Hockley of this Parish, Spinster, were published:
1st   Time  20 May 1883
2nd  Time  27 May   
3rd  Time    5 June    
 
No. 743
BAPTISM
August 5, 1883
Mary Ann of James and Matilda Hockley. Abode: Little Canfield. Labourer.
 
BANNS OF MARRIAGE between James Hockley, Widower and Elizabeth (Pearmin?), Widow both of this Parish were published:
1st   Time  10 July 1898
2nd  Time  17 July
3rd  Time  24 July
 
 


 
Memorandums from the 1729 – 1812 Little Canfield Parish Church Register.  Someone, probably the Vicar, went through the original registers in 1898, and extracted many details.  The items I thought would be of interest are as follows:

 


 
MEMORANDEM
"From 1783 to 1794 there was a duty of three pence imposed for every entry in the Parish Register: & the Clergy very often omitted the entries altogether, on the ground that they found this charge press hardly on their poor people."
 
"There is also often a hiatus in the records from 1694 to 1699 when a tax was levied by Kg. Wm. III on all births, marriages & deaths & the collectors were armed with free access to the Registers for the purpose of assessing the (import.?) These registers were “inspected by John Parsson, (sub?)-Collector Dec. 13. 1784.”

 


 
MEMORANDEM
"In 1812 “Roses Act” (see beginning of Baptismal Register) provided for the first time one uniform set of entries in separate books, duly marked out under various headings, to be obtained from the Kings printers.  The said Act is most carelessly drafted. Eg.  It enacts the penalty of transportation for 14 years for falsifying a Parish Register, & then in a subsequent clause directs that in case of conviction for this offence the penalty is to be equally divided between the informer & the poor of the parish."

 


 
MEMORANDEM
Between 1729 – 1812 (dates of this book)
 
Rectors
Wm. Marriott                      1690 – 1731
Thos. Atherton                    1732 –1749
Richard Wilding                   1749 – 1774
Alexander James                  1774 – 1813
Curates
Robert Jones Moreton          1776 – 1792
James Butterfield                 1792 – 1816
Sam Poulter, Church Clerk buried 1754 held that office in 1743
John Coe, Church Clerk       1754 – 1798
 

MEMORANDEM
Parish localities mentioned in this & the previous book of names of occupiers, & number of allusions:
 
Copt Hall or Great Copt Hall
1599 to 1632    Midford, Montfort, Mumford                9 entries
1697 to 1743    Judd                                                     10 entries
1809                 Fewell
 
Lantorns, Lantons, Lanthornis, Langtons, Langthornes
1600 – 1648    Midford, Montford, Mumford                 4 entries
1683                Judd
1718                Choppin
1736                Stubbings
1740 – 1741    Herrington                                             2 entries
1743                Kamp
1744                Reynolds
1769                Gooch
1768                Bush
 
The Hill, Hill Farm, Super Montem
1606 –             Mumforde
1613                Judd
1615 – 1712    Mumford, Midford                                8 entries
1715                Lambert
1742                Knight
1742 – 1747    Mumford                                               2 entries
1747                Pool
1752                Blatch
 
Stone Hall 
1608 – 1664    Howlande                                             2 entries
1750 – 1752    Day                                                       2 entries
1769 – 1772    Barnard                                                 2 entries
1796                Cornell
 
Canfield Hall, Lit. Canfield Hall, The Hall
1610 –             Leonarde
1623                Gyver
1663                Banks
1741 – 1798    Wyatt
1806                Tabrum                                                7 entries
 
Hales, Hailes
1611                More
1616 – 1650    Bernarde                                              6 entries
1704 – 1714    Hagger                                                 2 entries
1744                Day
 
Heddins, Pading, Heddens, Heddings
1613 – 1751    Eave, Eve                                           10 entries
1784                Hockley
 
Puns
1614                Munke
 
Green Croft, Greencrofte
1615                Nicholson or Reade
1621 – 1623    Mumford, Mounforte                            2 entries
1722                Howland
1785                Martin
 
Burgis
1618                Munke
 
Ranars
1624                Judde
 
Canfield End, The end way, Canfield-end-way
1670                Woods
1742                Burles
1744                Mapes
1746                Burles
1747                Burgess
 
High Elm’s [? At Bacon End; Gt. Canfield]
1679 – 1702     Judd                                                    2 entries
 
News Land
1697 – 1733    Bright                                                  3 entries
1766 – 1801    Stubbings                                            3 entries
 
Witterage
1743                Williams
 
Whip Warrens
1744                Powell
 
The Almes House
1748                Spooner
 
The Parsonage
1748                Crouchman
1794                Barnard
 
The Rose & Crown Inn, in the End Way
1747                Baldwin
1752                Blatch
 

 
MEMORANDEM
"Burial in Woollen:  After Mar. 25. 1667 no person was to be ‘buried in any shirt shift, or sheet other than should be made of woole only.” In 1678 the keeper of the register had to take & record the affidavit of a kinsman of the dead, 
to the effect that the corpse was actually buried in wollen fabric. The upper classes, however, preferred to bury in linen (see Martha Wyatt 1759 & Prudence Wyatt 1714 previous book) and to pay the Fine of £ 5. The Act was repealed 1814 & had fallen onto disuse long before."
 
"On June 13th 1786 Mr. Moreton records the burial of Thomas Judd, Infant & “half baptized.”
 

 
MEMORANDEM
"Date & New Year’s Day
1751, after Baptism on Nov. 10 follows this note:
N.B. By an Act made the Last Session of Parliament it was enacted in the Year of our Lord for the future should be reckoned to begin upon the first of January instead of the 25th  of March, from this present year, & the eleven Days should be cast out or annihilated betwixt the second & fourteenth of September next following so that from thence all difference betwixt old & new Style ceases.
[See previous Register Nov. 1624 “Henceforward the Registering begins the (__?) are as the Church doth all the past of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.”] "
 

 
MEMORANDEM
Conformations
 
30 Mar. 1880.. Gt. Dunmow, by Bp. Claughton
Barrick, William              Wallis, Thomas
Bartrop, Charles              Ward, John
Burton, John                    Ward, William                        
Cansdale, George             Bartrop, Ellen Jane
Cansdale, Harry               Burton, Lydia
Cheshire, Charles             Cheshire, Mrs. John (nèe Crozier)
Crane, George                  Hockley, Ellen Jane Mary
Crozier, James                  Moreton, Mrs. Fred
Halls, Frank                      Poole, Emma
Raven, Charles                 Stokes, Louisa
 
18 Mar. 1884 Gt. Dunmow, by Bp. Claughton
Harrington, Henry            Greygoose, Emma
Stokes, John                     Nottage, Eleanor
Wallis, Edward                 Whybrow, Louisa
 
30 Mar. 1886 Takeley, by Bp. Claughton
Bartrop, Fred                    Crozier, George
Cansdale, William             Parker, Stephen           
Cheshire, Esaie                 Poole, Alfred  
Cheshire, Harry                Skingle, Jeremiah
Colyer, William                Stock, Charles
Crozier, Charles               Stokes, Charles
 
26 Mar. 1889 Takeley, by Bp. Claughton
Burton, James                  Bird, Emma
Crozier, William               Crozier, Mrs. Wm.
Moreton, George             Franklin, Edith Olive
Skingle, Fred.                  Swann, Elizth. Annie
Bartrop, Louisa
 
1 Ap. 1892 Takeley, by Bp. Blomfield
Marshall, Thos. Wm.       Cansdale, Ellen
Perrin, Fredk. George      Marshall, Mary Ann
Perrin, Wm.                     Sewell, Matilda
Swann, Fredk. John         Stokes, Alice Jane
Bird, Ada
 
11 Ap. 1894 Lit. Easton by Bp. Festing
Bird, Frank                         Dellow, Mary
Pateman, Arthur Norman   Gunn, Susan
Ward, Thos. Wm.               Perrin, Alice Clara      
 
25 Feb. 1895 Gt. Dunmow, by Bp. Festing
Burton, Elizth.                    Ward, Grace Fortuna
 
25 Ap. 1897 Lit. Easton, by Bp. Johnson
Pateman, Hugh Sidney       Crozier, Emily
Ward, Ernest Wm.              Pateman, Mrs. (Betsy)
Ward, Harry                        Swann, Agatha Mabel
Whybrow, Frank                 Ward, Alice
Cheshire, Ellen
 
25 May 1898 Takeley, by Bp. Johnson
Pearce, Edith                      Stammers, Lydia
Pateman, (Et__?) May
 

 
MEMORANDOM
Organ Fund
. . . . . . . . . . . . . In the autumn of 1885, the mater was laid before the parishioners, who with hardly an exception willingly subscribed, assisted by a few outsiders, as follows:--
The list included the following:
Harrington Mrs. (Copt Hall) collected
Miss Hockley                      2-6
Harrington family                5.-
Barrick E. & Mrs.                1.-
Mrs. Hayden                        6
 

 
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Updated:  April 4, 2015
 
 

 

 

 

 

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