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An index of names from : Elizabethan Life in Essex : Morals and the Church Courts by Dr F G Emmison. These books are a great storehouse of Elizabethan names in the county. They come from a time when the county population was no more than about 50000 (it has been estimated as 35000-40000 adults). CLERK Henham (Old Meade), better ch seat as deaf, 1600 GLASCOCK William Henham, church warden prevented him ringing, 1587 KYRBY Thomas Henham, a church warden 1595 ? MEASAUNTE Thomas Henham church warden, stopped bellringers 1587 PERRYE John Henham questman, negligence charge 1594 |
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From: British History Online (source: Introduction chapter V: the subsidies and the London population:1. Immigration into London. 2. Early London Subsidy Rolls, Eilbert Ekwall (1951) 9 taxpayers - including the
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From:
British History Online Source:
House of Lords Journal Volume 63: 20 April 1831. Journal of the House of
Lords: volume 63
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Colchester Borough Court
in Session - Sessions Roll Epiphany 1582 Dates of Accumulation 1578 Writ to take amongst others, Richard Botomlye of Henham, labourer and have him at the said Sessions. |
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Henham Mechanics'
Institution 1825 Listed in Report of the State of Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutions [SDUK], 1841. Defunct by 1842? |
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Window on the Past A look along the shelves of the nearest bookshop reveals numerous books and pamphlets of local interest. Now we too have our own book about the village, a collection of old photographs and anecdotes entitled 'Memories of Henham'. The book is a tribute to the efforts of two ladies of the village --to their initiative and diligence in bringing the material together. It is also a mark of the co-operation freely given by those in possession of -one might say safeguarding -these historical documents. One's first response on seeing the old, tinted and often blurred pictures is one of curiosity, seeking to identify people and places. Then one notices how things have changed - buildings that have either been extended and developed or disappeared; tracks that have become broad highways, accompanied by so much 'street furniture'. Finding traces nowadays of the long dismantled railway is an interesting exercise in observation and detection on the ground. To some these are real memories, of relatives, childhood friends and experiences, similar to those of so many other people for whom there is no pictorial record: memories which extend back in time for over a century through the remembered comments of parents and grandparents. In an age when movement has become ever more common it is salutary to pause and note that the roots of some families may have been in the village since time immemorial. Those for whom the photographs have no link to memory can but try to imagine themselves into the pictures -into a different world, a more enclosed and self-contained community, a quieter place in the pre-motor age, when the horizons of most were closer, both physically and intellectually. And beyond the visual record? The further back in time one seeks to travel the more difficult it is to appreciate the limits of the world of our forefathers, their daily round, their preoccupations and their notions. No-one's family is older than another's, though some are better documented. Those documents represent for all of us a link to a common past, from which we can learn much - if we are so minded. Christopher Swain
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