Sturmer, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
STURMERE, a parish, in the union of Risbridge, hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, 1 mile (S. E.) from Haverhill; containing 333 inhabitants. Sturmere takes its name from a lake, or mere, covering about 20 acres, that extended from the river Stour, by which the parish is bounded on the north; it comprises about 800 acres, and is watered by a rivulet. Though now obscure, it was formerly of considerable importance, and stretched into the counties of Cambridge and Suffolk, including the parishes of Haverhill and Kedington, each of which now exceeds it in population. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £8. 10., and in the gift of the Duke of Rutland: the tithes have been commuted for £264, and the glebe comprises 10 acres. The church is an ancient structure of flint and rubble stone, partly in the Norman and early English styles, with a rich arch of the former character on the south side. Numerous coins of Antoninus Pius and of the Lower Empire have been found; and in widening a road, in 1820, several skeletons of gigantic size were discovered.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 252-256. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51316 Date accessed: 13 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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