Netteswell, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Netteswell St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in Essex. The Church is no longer used for worship but is a Community Learning Centre.

The church of ST. ANDREW, formerly isolated in the centre of Netteswell, beside the manor house, is now surrounded by the houses of Tye Green neighbourhood in Harlow town. It is a simple rectangular building of flint rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, comprising nave and chancel in one, north vestry, south porch, and western bell turret. The nave and chancel were built early in the 13th century, as shown by the lancet windows and the roundheaded door arches in the north and south walls. The original east window, of which traces remain, and the piscina in the chancel, are of the same period. The wooden bell turret, supported on chamfered posts and a tie-beam, may have been built c. 1400 to house the two bells of that period which survive. Other 15th-century alterations included a new east and a new west window, each of three lights, a matching pair of two-light windows on the north and south walls of the nave, and the building of the south porch. A panel of brickwork, possibly commemorating that work, is set on the outside of the south wall of the nave. It depicts a double rose with supporters, perhaps for Gervase Rose, abbot of Waltham 1497–1500. In 1618 a three-tier pulpit, bearing the date, was placed on the south side of the church. At the same period box pews were installed, and a west gallery was erected. A rough lean-to vestry, on the north side of the nave, probably dated from the 18th century. The church was thoroughly restored in 1875 to the designs of Frederic Chancellor. The porch and vestry were rebuilt, and the bell turret was given a broach spire in place of a low pyramidal cap. Most of the roof timbers were replaced, the gallery was removed, new pews were installed, and the pulpit, much altered, was moved to the north side of the church. There are three bells, two of which were cast by a founder active in the period 1385–1418. The plate included a cup and paten of 1641 and an alms dish of 1656, all of silver. The font dates from the 13th century. Fragments of 15thcentury glass survive, reset, in the heads of the larger nave windows. They include the figures of the evangelists and of St. Mary Cleophas and St. Mary Salome with their children. There are brasses to Thomas Laurence (d. 1522), and John Bannister (d. 1607), and a marble monument to William Martin (d. 1717). Another marble monument, erected by William Martin's widow Mary (d. 1764) to her brother Robert Crosse and nephew Thomas Crosse, was removed in 1969 to the Victoria and Albert Museum. (fn. 112) A large altar tomb covers the family vault of Anthony Natt (d. 1801), rector. Burnt Mill mission originated in 1890, when the rector, Wilson Carlile, started services in a barn at Netteswell Cross. The mission hall was opened in Spring Street in 1891. In 1957 the ecclesiastical parish of Netteswell was reduced in size and designated the parish of Tye Green with St. Andrew, Netteswell. St. Andrew's remained the parish church until 1964, when it became a chapel of ease to the new church of St. Stephen, Tye Green. In 1978 St. Andrew's was closed and declared redundant.

From: 'Parishes: Netteswell', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 206-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63854&amp;amp;strquery=netteswell Date accessed: 26 January 2011.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

The village and civil parish are now within Harlow. The new town was built after World War II to ease overcrowding in London at the same time as the similar orbital developments of Basildon, Stevenage, and Hemel Hempstead. The master plan for the new town was drawn up in 1947 by Sir Frederick Gibberd. The development incorporated the market town of Harlow, now a neighbourhood known as Old Harlow, and the villages of Great Parndon, Latton, Tye Green, Potter Street, Churchgate Street, Little Parndon, and Netteswell

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Andrew and St Stephen Tye Green ( now St Andrews Community Learning centre)

See also St Michael and All Angels

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Epping Poor Law Union, Essex

Parish overseers' accounts survive for the periods 1719–53 and 1817–36. Between 1719 and 1753 one overseer presented accounts. In most years from 1740 to 1753 two overseers were nominated. Several overseers served for two years or more, not always consecutively. A widow served in 1729 and another in 1730. Between 1818 and 1824 one overseer accounted. Thomas Rickett, overseer from 1822, was in 1825 appointed salaried assistant overseer, and continued to present the accounts until 1830, when John Rickett succeeded him. One churchwarden and one constable were nominated annually between 1818 and 1836. The annual poor rate averaged £38 between 1719 and 1735, and £64 between 1736 and 1753. There was a sharp increase in the 1740s, to a peak of £97 in 1751. The cost of poor relief was £93 in 1776, and averaged £112 in the three years 1783–5. It reached £422 in 1801, but during the remainder of the decade averaged £260. Between 1817 and 1836 the overseers' annual expenditure, including the county rate, averaged £283. The parish had two poorhouses, both at Tye Green. One had been built on waste land granted in 1599 by Sir Jerome Weston, lord of the manor. The other, lying farther west, by Copshall common, was given in 1746 by Mary Martin, lady of the manor. Each house apparently contained two dwellings. In 1825 they accommodated a total of 10 adults and 7 children. Mrs. Martin's house was later an infant school. Between 1719 and 1753 the number of paupers receiving weekly doles rarely exceeded 6, though it reached 11 in 1750. In the period 1813–15 the number was usually between 17 and 20, while some 20–25 received occasional relief. In 1830 there were only 10 weekly pensioners, with doles ranging from 2s. 6d. to 7s. At all recorded periods the vestry also provided relief in clothing, fuel, rent subsidies, boarding allowances, sick pay, and medical care. Throughout the period 1817–36 the vestry employed a part-time doctor. In 1819 it resolved that paupers should be employed by the larger ratepayers on the roundsman system. Only one parish apprenticeship was recorded. In 1836 Netteswell joined Epping poor law union.

From: 'Parishes: Netteswell', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 206-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63854&amp;amp;strquery=netteswell Date accessed: 26 January 2011.

Probate records
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