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Hundred Of Ongar
"History and Topography of The County of Essex
Comprising its Ancient and Modern History"
1895, Vol 2, page 421.
Compiled by: Sue Wright
This is the second parish of this name in Essex, distinguished from Kelvedon, in Witham
hundred, by the term Hatch, applied to a rural gate of a peculiar construction. From Brentwood
this parish is a distant five, and from London nineteen miles.
Ailric, Algar, a freeman, and Leueua, had the lands of this parish before the Conquest; and after
that event they were in the divided possession of St. Peter's, Westminster; Odo, bishop of
Bayeux, whose under-tenant was the nephew of Herbert; and Hamo Dapifer, who's under-tenant
was Ralph.
Afterwards, these lands were divided into two manors. Ailric gave his part to St. Peter's of
Westminster; his grant was confirmed by Edward the confessor, and the abbot and monks
retained possession till after the year 1532, and it is believed to have been all or the greater part
of it included in the manor of Germains, or Jermins, to which the rectory was appendant.
Kelvedon Hall is near the west end of the church, and the owners may be traced out by the
presentations: In 1372, the advowson was in sir Roger de Kirketon and others. From 1383 to
1457, John de Hagh, Thomas de Hagh, Richard Haw, and John Haw, esquires, presented. Next
followed the Bollis, Bolles, or Bowle family, from 1464 to 1511. John Wright, gent. presented
in 1547, succeeded by his descendants of many generations. It now [1895] belongs to the rev.
Edward Linsey.
In 1521, Richard Bolles, esq. died holding this manor of the abbot of St. Peter's,
Westminster: his son John died in 1532, who left Richard, his son heir. It was holden of Richard
Hawe, by Henry Chadirton, by the rent of sixpence, in 1444, whose son and heir was Henry
Chadirton: succeeded, in 1524, by Henry Torrel, esq. of Navestock; whose son Humphrey, his
successor, died in 1544, holding this parish. From whence it appears that the Wright family
became possessed of the capital manor of this parish between the years 1524 and 1544.
John Wright, esq. with Olive his wife, were buried in Kelvedon church, in 1551. John, his son,
died in 1563. By his wife Joan, he had his heir John, who held this manor of Robert lord Rich:
he had also the manor of White Notley, and, on his death in 1608, left John Wright, his son, his
heir, who married Anne, one of the daughters of sir Edward Sulyard, of Flemyngs, in Runwell;
and had by her three sons and four daughters.
He died in 1661; their eldest son was John Wright, esq. who married Frances, eldest daughter of
sir Phillip Waldegrave, esq. of Borley; he died in 1661, leaving John, Phillip, and Frances. John
Wright, the eldest son, married Philippa, daughter of Willilam Fitz-Williams, esq. of Glixby, in
Lincolnshire, and had by her five sons and four daughters. She died in 1687, and he in 1691.
John Wright, esq. the eldest son and heir, married Eugenia, daughter of Charles Trinder, esq. and
had by her his son and heir, John, who died in 1751, leaving, by his wife ___ Smith, or
?Carrington, John Wright, esq. Arms of Wright: Azure, two bars argent, in chief, a leopard's
face, or.
An ancient house in this parish was named Bryces, from Thomas Bryce, citizen and mercer of
London, by whom it was erected in 1498. He sold it, in 1515, to sir John Allen, alderman of
London; from whom it was conveyed, in 1528, to John Catchmaid; from whom passing to
Edward Northey, attorney-at-law, he, in 1548, conveyed it to Richard Pettus, of an ancient family
in Norfolk; and his daughter or grand-daughter, Elizabeth, was married to sir Francis Jones,
alderman of London, and in 1620, lord mayor. Mary Jones, his daughter, was married to Ralph
Pettus, son of William, brother of sir John Pettus, bart. to whom she conveyed a fortune of six
thousand pounds, accounted a great sum at that time. During the civil wars, Ralph being of the
royal party, was sequestered for eight hundred pounds, and had to mortgage this estate, which he
could never afterwards redeem. It became the property of the Glascock family; and now belongs
to William Dalby, esq.
The church is a good brick building, tiled, dedicated to St. Nicholas; it has a nave, chancel, and
south aisle. Under the arch of the south aisle of the chancel there is an epitaph in old French, for
Richard de Welleby, in very ancient characters: and in the east window of the same aisle, was the
name of Milo de Mounteney, in Saxon letters. [Symonds's Collect, vol. Iii. Fol. 103]. There is
also an inscription in Norman French, on sir Roger de Kirketon.
There are also in this church numerous monuments and inscriptions on the Wright family, who
during many generations possessed the capital manor, and were patrons of the church; among
these are, John Wright, esq. Who died 2 Dec 1751, in the sisty-sixth year of his age: of Frances,
eldest daughter of Philip Waldegrave, esq. And wife of ____[John] Wright, esq. She died May
21, 1656. John Wright, esq. died the 13th of the same year, aged forty-six. Anne, wife of John
Wright, and daughter of sir Edward Sulliard, knt. died 28 Nov 1617.
In 1821, this parish contained three hundred and thirty-six, and, in 1831, three hundred and sixty-
one inhabitants.
For more information and history on Kelvedon Hatch, visit
"Kelvedon Hatch: Local and Family History". There were thirteen descending John Wrights and nine of them (in
blue) are listed in the Kelvedon Hatch history above.
m. Agnes, b. abt 1452, d. _______
m. Olive Hubbard, b. 22 Feb 1487, d. Oct 1560
m. Joan Harris, b. 1512, d. 21 Jan 1584
m. Agnes Lawrence b. ____, d. ____
m. Anne Sulyard, b. ___, d. 28 Nov 1617
m. Frances Waldegrave, b. ___ d. 21 May 1656
m. Phillippa Fitz Williams, b. ___ d. 16 May 1687
m. Eugenia Trinder, b. ___, d. 1734
m. Constantia Carington, b. ___, d. ___
m. Winifred Silvertop, b. ___, d. 12 Aug 1780
m. Elizabeth Lawson, b. ___, d. 7 Jul 1812
m. Mary Catherine Cholmeley, b. ___, d. 7 Aug 1858
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