Easthorpe 1863 Whites Directory

EAST THORPE, or EASTHORPE, a small secluded village, seven miles W.S.W. of Colchester, and nearly four miles N.E. of Kelvedon, has in its parish only 144 souls, and 1300 acres of land. The Executors of the late Hon. Colonel Onslow are lords of the
manor during the minority of Henry Cranley Onslow, son of Sir Henry Onslow ; but a great part of the soil belongs to Earl Verulam, C. G. Round, Esq., and several smaller owners. At Domesday Survey the manor was held by the Earl of Boulogne, and it was afterwards held by the Blund, Gernon, Peyton, Audley, and other families.
The Church (Saint Mary) is a small antique fabric, and the living is a rectory valued in K.B. at £12, and in 1831 at £211,
in the gift of the Executors of the Hon. Colonel Onslow, and incumbency of the Rev. G. C. Bowles, who has a neat parsonage house and 35 acres of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1842 for £200 per annum. The poor have a yearly rent-charge of 7s. 2d. , left by the Hon. Kingston Clarke, about 1600. The school was built in 1854.

Bowles Rev. George Cranley, rector
Burrells William, parish clerk
Crismas Hannah, schoolmistress
Ely Thomas, shoemaker and shopkeeper
Hutley James, blacksmith & beerhouse – Bell
Pitcher Rev. Amos William, curate
Stebbing George, maltster

FARMERS.
Ely Isaac, Kenfield Farm
Page James, Badcocks Farm
Smith Daniel, Easthorpe Hall
Stebbing Geo. Hutley, & cattle dealer
Wade Thomas
Smith John
Post via Kelvedon.