PEBMARSH
White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages
PEBMARSH, a village, near the source of a rivulet, 3 miles N. of Halstead, has a large silk factory, and its parish contains 614 souls, and 1978 acres of land.
Lady Puller is lady of the manor, which was anciently held by the Bigod and Fitz-Ralph families, the latter of whom took the surname of De Pebmers, and was long seated at the Hall, which stood in Castle Meadow. J. Sperling, Esq., the Rev. W. H. Chapman, Capt. Carter, Mrs. Bygrave, and several residents, have estates in the parish.
The farm called Spoons Hall belongs to the Earl of Verulam, who is patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £10, and in 1831 at £457, and now in the incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. E. H. Grimston, M.A., who has 26a.2r. of glebe, and a handsome residence, built about six years ago.
The Church (St. John the Baptist,) is a fine ancient structure, which was repewed about 15 years ago, when a gallery was erected. It has a tower and three bells, and it's spacious aisles are separated from the nave by light pillars, supporting Gothic arches.
The tithes were commuted in 1838, for £683 per annum. A fair for toys and pleasure is held here on June 24th; and here is a farmers club, called the Pebmarsh Society. The parish school was built in 1787, and, as a Sunday school, is endowed with £7.14s.4d. per annum, arising from stock purchased with £200 left by the Hon. and Rev. H. G. Bucknall, in 1817.
The parish has long held, for the use of the poor, a cottage and garden, occupied by paupers, and a cottage and 3r.of land, let for £5 per annum. The poor have also 20s. a year from Wincoll's Charity, (See Alphamstone.)
Allen John, corn factory
Binks Joseph, pork butcher
Clark Stephen, tailor
Crisp Susanna, saddler
Creffield Thomas, maltster
Eldred James, blacksmith
Eldred Joseph, wheelwright
Grimston Hon. and Rev. Edward Harbottle, M.A. Rectory
Hearn Peter, church clerk
Hearn Shadrach, poulterer
Osmar John, police officer
Pye Wm. carpenter
Roast Benj. corn miller
Rodick Edw. London & Henry, silk manufacturers (and London)
Sycamore Isaac, shoemaker
Walford Walter Wm. vict, Kings Head.
Webber John, butcher
Farmers ( * are Owners.)
*Collis Samuel (and land valuer)
Farrow Henry ll Howlett James
*Nott George, Dagworths
Nott John, Collings
*Start John, Moat Farm
Stebbing Jane, Blue Pale
Stebbing John, Spoons Hall
Stebbing Robert Ruel, Stanley Hall
*Stebbing Wm. Viall, Hunt's Hall
*Thompson Joseph
Bakers
Creffield Thomas
Downes Wm.
Shopkeepers
Beardwell My. A.
Dixey Wm.
Downes Wm.
Lee George
Beerhouses
Beardwell My. A.
Bush Edward
Downes Wm.
Wiffen Mary Ann
Schools
Cant Hetty
Lee Mary
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
PEBMARSH, a village and a parish in Halstead district, Essex. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Colne, 3½ miles NE of Halstead r. station; is an ancient place; and has a post-office under Colchester. The parish comprises 2,023 acres. Real property, £3,869. Pop., 653. Houses, 146. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to C>W>G. Puller, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500. Patron, the Earl of Verulam. The church is old but good, and has a tower. There are a free school, and charities £6.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
PEBMARSH is an ancient village and parish, traversed by a feeder of the Colne, 3½ miles west from Bures station on the Sudbury and Haverhill branch of the London and North Eastern railway, 3¼ north from Earls Colne station on the Colne Valley section of the London and North Eastern railway, 4 north-east from Halstead and 6 south from Sudbury, in the Saffron Walden division of the county, Hinckford hundred, South Hinckford petty sessional division (Halstead bench), Halstead rural district, Colchester, Clacton and Halstead joint county court district, Halstead and Hedingham rural deanery, archdeaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient edifice of brick and flint in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays with clorestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: the stained east window is a memorial to Francis Walter Grimston, and was inserted in 1876; and on the south side is a memorial window, inserted in 1882, to the Hon. and Rev. Edward Harbottle Grimston M.A. rector of the parish 1841-80, d. May, 1881: there are several other stained windows, induding one inserted as a memorial to His late Majesty King Edward VII: in the chancel is an ancient brass of a knight in armour, cross-legged, and the matrix of what was once a large and fine canopy with marginal inscription; the effigy represents Sir William FitzRalph, who died c. 1322: there is also in the chancel a small brass, dated 1764, to the Rev. Josephus Birch, a former rector: the interior was restored and reseated in 1877, and further restored in 1929 at a cost of about £2,000, when the south porch was restored as a memorial to the Rev. A. G. Kirby (rector 1881-1912) : there are 300 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 1648 ; burials, 1655; marriages, 1654. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £555, with residence and 12 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Verulam, and held since 1930 by the Rev. Thomas Denis Scott Bayley M. A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Here is a Baptist chapel. There are charities of about £7 yearly, left by the Rev. Hon. Edward Harbottle Grimston; also a sum of about £5 arising from a house and threequarters of an acre of land, and £1 from Wincoll’s charity, which amounts are given yearly in doles to the poor of the parish. The manor is extinct. Robert M. Turner esq. P. L. Hollins esq. and John William Nott esq. J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is various: subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is 2,062 acres ; the population in 1931 was 382.
DAGWORTH is a mile north-west.
Post, M. O. T. & T. E. D. Office. Letters through Halstead