Henry of Great Dunmow, 1795 to 2000
Research on this Beard family began sometime in the late 1990s, when an expedition to the Essex Records Office uncovered a number of Beards in Barnston. Having followed them back to Great Dunmow, the work stopped there. However the information here was confirmed and expanded in January 2002 when Janet Foley, daughter of Ernest George Beard (1917-?), made contact via another family historian, and again when Sally Gowlett, granddaughter of Edith Mary Beard (1891-?) made contact in July 2002 .
The origin of the family is unknown, but Benjamin, eldest son of progenitor Henry, does not appear in the baptismal registers of Great Dunmow as his brothers and sisters do, and claimed in 1881 that his place of birth was Barnston. Possibly therefore this is where either Henry or his wife Mary originated.
The first generation of the family grew up in Great Dunmow, but all of the second generation moved to Great Waltham, and those of the third generation that did not remain there moved to Barnston; evidently many of the extended family stayed in close contact up until the 1900s. Some of the family ventured out towards Rawreth and Chelmsford thereafter.
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