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  • Origins of the Surname Beard
  • UK Distribution of the Beards
  • 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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    John of Roxwell, 1710 to 2000

    My own branch of the Essex Beards. The family starts out in Roxwell, and after a long period in High Easter and Good Easter they move towards Mashbury, the Chignalls, Pleshey and later still to Broomfield, Magdelan Laver and the broader Chelmsford area.

    View Tree

    There are quite a few family images to view:

    See the Beard photographs

    And as well as the tree, Gordon Beard has written a book about his life which adds real colour to the family tree.

    Read Gordons story