Marks Tey 1863 Whites Directory
TEY, ( MARKS) or Tey at the Elms, is a pleasant village on the London road, south-east of the two other Teys, 5 miles W. by S. of Colchester, and 4 miles E. by N. of Coggeshall. On the Eastern Counties Railway, near the junction of the Braintree and London roads, is a commodious station, from which branches the Colchester, Halstead, and Stour Valley Railway. The parish of Marks Tey has 396 inhabitants, and 1214 acres of land, having a rich soil of clay and loam. The manor was anciently held by the Merc, or Mark family, under the Mandevilles and Bohuns, after whom it was the seat and property of the Dinants, who took the surname of Tey. Walter de Tey was summoned to Parliament in 1299. About 1592, Wm. Tey, Esq. , conveyed the manor to Queen Elizabeth, who granted it to Charles Cornwallis, Esq. , who sold it to Wm. Howse. It afterwards passed to various families, and is now held by Walter Waring, Esq. , of Heybridge. Marks Tey Hall is an old mansion, formerly encompassed by a moat, part of which still remains. J. Wagstaff, R. Tupper, Miss Proctor, and others, have estates in the parish.
The Church ( St. Andrew,) is a small Gothic structure, which has recently undergone a thorough renovation. The tower has two bells, and is crowned by a wooden spire. There is a painted window in the chancel, with the arms of Bishop Compton. The rectory was given by one of the Mandevilles, to St. Botolph’s Priory, Colchester. After the suppression of that monastery, Bishop Compton purchased the parsonage, 384. of glebe, and all the tithes of the parish, except such as belonged to the then lord of the manor, and settled them upon the vicarage, in the patronage of Baliol College, Oxford. The vicarage (not in charge)
was valued in 1831 at £234, and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. Lewis Welsh Owen, M.A., of Colchester. The tithes were commuted in 1841, for £246 10s. per annum. Bishop Henry Compton, the liberal benefactor to the vicarage, was made Bishop of London in 1675, and was entrusted with the education of the two princesses, Mary and Anne, who imbibed from him their firm adherence to the Protestant religion, which so exasperated James II. that he suspended him from his ecclesiastical functions,
but they were restored to him on the invasion of William, Prince of Orange, to whom he had married the princess Mary. He laboured with much zeal to reconcile the dissenters to the Church, and died in 1713.
MARKS TEY.
Dixey Sarah , shopkeeper, Post Office
Dixey John, wheelwright, smith and vict. Trowel and Hammer.
Govett Rev. John Clement, curate
Hunt William, vict. Prince of Wales
Keable James, parish clerk
Moy Thomas, coal merchant
Munson John, shoemaker,
Read James Waugh, station master
Turner John, builder and joiner
Walker Charles, shopkeeper
Warren Charles, vict. Red Lion
FARMERS.
Bones William, Palmers
Fincham Edward
Smith James
Tampión Daniel, Hainmer Farm
Tupper Richmond, Goodman’s
Wagstaff John, Church Farm
Waring Reginald, Hall
Post from Colchester
RAILWAY
TRAINS to Colchester, London, &c. several times a day