Though the early parish registers don’t exist, we have a few clues that help us piece together a brief outline of the Lagden family through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Continue reading
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The Will of John Barker of Hempstead
St. Andrew, Hempstead, Essex
In the name of God Amen; the 26th day of October in the year of our Lord 1497, I John Barker of Hempstead in the County of Essex and in the diocese of London, being in good mind, thanks be to God, make my testament in this wise; first I bequeath my soul to Almighty God and to our Lady Saint Mary of Heaven, and my body to be buried in the church yard of Saint Andrew in Hempstead aforesaid. Continue reading