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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: findem on Tuesday 01 February 11 23:26 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
Anyone know if there is or was a place called Little Ashen.
A marriage entry of an ancestor sibling's marriage in 1735 at Witham stated that both were of Little Ashen, a subsequent search using 2 UK Road Atlases, an online Gazetteer and the ERO's list of parish registers failed to find it.
Purely out of curiosity I would like to know if Lt Ashen ever existed, or is too small and too close to Ashen to be shown on a map.
Regards,
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There's just one reference to it at the ERO.
"Q/SR 144/23
SESSIONS ROLLS
EPIPHANY 1599
Presentments for Hundreds of Hinckford, Uttlesford, Dunmow and Freshwell
First er present Silvestor Dennie of Little Ashen for refusing to come to the church to hear Divine Service for three months."
This Google Books result gives another reference
"sinne of excessiue drinking ; which happened vpon the 27. day of December last, being the Lords day, next after the Natiuitie, in the towne of little Ashen, or Eason in Essex,"
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=bks%3A1&q=%22little+ashen%22+essex&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
The first seems to suggest that it is not near the present Ashen which is on the Suffolk borders, and could the second mean it is near what is now Little and Great Easton?
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Hi keldon,
Found those two Lt Ashen references very interesting indeed.
My Searles line moved around in the Bardfields, Salings, Eastons and later the Leighs, a John Searle born around 1420 was appointed Keeper of the Great Park at Gt Bardfield.
An ancestor sibling named John Searles was baptised 1707 in Great Easton and married a Mary Thrubshoe 1735 in Witham, the marriage entry stated both were of Little Ashen, hence my interest in Lt Ashen. John's younger siblings were baptised in Lt Easton so the reference which possibly links Lt Ashen with Eason is interesting, I have seen in a parish register somewhere Easton written as Eason. I would imagine that someone living in Witham who probably never heard of Ashen or Lt Easton could easily come to grief with the place name spelling, then of course there's the Essex dialect!
Out of curiosity I'm currently trawling Ashen to see what I can find in the way of Searles or other names of interest, yesterday I started at 1560 and to date have reached 1723, not a Searle to be seen. Found a couple of Theobalds, Tebbole 1587 and Tibbal 1702, both too early to be of use but perhaps one day...... ;D
Thanks for your input
Regards.
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I have an ancestor who was miller at Church Farm, Ashen, before 1806. I suppose that, as it was a very little place, it was also called Littlle Ashen! If anyone is having problems finding family info from this village, may I suggest that they also look just over the border into Suffolk, especially in Clare.
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I have an ancestor who was miller at Church Farm, Ashen, before 1806. I suppose that, as it was a very little place, it was also called Littlle Ashen! If anyone is having problems finding family info from this village, may I suggest that they also look just over the border into Suffolk, especially in Clare.