St. Andrew Church, Earls Colne, Essex

All we know of James Markham is from the parish register of Earls Colne, and that isn’t very much. I have hunted through well over 200 sets of parish registers for the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlesex and London and still haven’t found a baptismal record for this James Markham. If he was baptized at St. Andrew in Earls Colne there is no record of it. Continue reading →