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    John of Stoke By Nayland, 1750 to 1881

    Note that these are "Beards" as distinct from "Beard". Does that allude to a different surname origin?

    There is an element of supposition on my part in compiling the genesis of this family; a number of Beards were born at similar times in Stoke By Nayland, and were all preceeded by a generational gap by John Beards, also of Stoke By Nayland. I am pretty sure that this is right but a flick through the Stoke By Nayland registers may deliver the proof - unless as I suspect the family were nonconformists.

    After a fifty year period in Stoke By Nayland the family moves into the orbit of this study - ie Gosfield, Great Braxted, Kelvedon and later Faulkbourne and Marks Tey, all in Essex

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