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Wennington, a parish in the hundred of Chafford, 2 miles northwest of Purfleet… The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are extensive marshes in this parish, stretching southward and westward to the Thames. (Lewis…, 1831). It is 13.67 miles east of the centre of the City of London

7 Sept 1622. Court in Session: Sessions Roll Michaelmas 1622. Recognizances of William BARRETT husbandman and Daniel ARCHDALE gent., both of Wennington; BARRETT to keep that part of an order etc. (as in 23) as to the bastard of Agnes GOLDERING. (SEAX - Essex Archives Online, Essex Record Office, Q/SR 238/24) Note: These records are available for ordering from this site.

25 May 1647 Daniel ARCHDALE, Wennington, Essex. To Mary A., daughter, 25 May 1647, p.58. (Extracted by Combs Researcher Joe Kendalll from "The Index Library -- Index to Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Now Preserved in the Public Record Office", Chancery Lane Vol. VI, 1631-1648. ed. Marc Fitch. London: The British Record Society. 1986, p. 10)

Daniel, son of Martin and Barbara SEXTON Archdale (Ayloffe). Also note that Wennington was abt 3 mi. northwest from Hornchurch where his mother was buried and Hornchurch and abt 3 mi. from his father's holdings in Erith, Kent

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