Essex Beard Families:

Sixteenth Century

John of White Roding John of Gt Parndon Roger of Gt Canfield

Seventeenth Century

Beards of High Roding John of Chipping Ongar Robert of Theydon Garnon Beards of Mountnessing

Eighteenth Century

John of Rochford Joseph of Romford John of Roxwell George of Colne Engaine Joseph of Great Coggeshall Joseph of Rochford Cambridgeshire Beards Edward of Tolleshunt William of West Thurrock William of Gt Tey Robert of Stoke By Nayland Roger of South Ockendon Benjamin of Bobbingworth Edward of Foulness Beards of Colne Engaine William of Hatfield Broadoak William of Saffron Walden Jonathan of Great Stambridge John of Great Braxted Henry of Gt Dunmow

Nineteenth Century

James of Colchester William of Althorne Thomas of Paglesham Gloucestershire Beards

Essex Resources:

Genuki Essex Essex Society for Family History Essex Parish Map Essex Villages Essex Records Office History House

General Resources:

FreeBMD FreeReg 1837 Online FamilySearch GenesReunited Ancestry.com Beard Messages

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The Cambridgeshire Beards

(1) This tree is not named after its progenitor, but rather the county from which they appear to originate

(2) There is no hard proof that John son of James Beard of Ickleton (see1.iv) is one and the same as John Beard of Great Chesterford (see 2b). However, the family of John Beard of Great Chesterford have a clear link with Ickleton, and the ages seem to be about right, so I think this quite persuasive of the link I suggest.

The initial generations of this family emanated from Ickleton in Cambridgeshire in the mid eighteenth century; by the close of the nineteenth century a good many had returned to there; those that had not appear to have headed for Surrey. In between there was a period of perhaps fifty years of association with the very north west of Essex, and in particular with the parishes of Great Chesterford, Hadstock and Chrishall.

The proximity of this family to those Beards living in Hadstock in the eighteenth century and Saffron Walden in the nineteenth century invites further research.

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