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Liberty of Havering
"History and Topography of The County of Essex
Comprising its Ancient and Modern History"
1895, Vol 2, page 431.
Submitted By: Sue Wright
Dagenhams Manor: The manor of Dagenhams lies south-east from Pirgo, bordering on
South Weald: the name is supposed from an owner who wrote himself De Dagenham, and there
being a parish in this neighbourhood named Dagenham, the possessive termination added here
seems to confirm this supposition.
Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, who died in 1454, held
the manors of Dagenhams and Cockerels, and was succeeded by his son and heir Henry; and sir
William Hussee, who died in 1495, held the manor of Potter's Fee, Dagenhams, and Cockerels,
of Elizabeth, queen of Henry the seventh, as of her manor of Havering; John was his son and
heir. In 1517, Peter Christmas held these possessions of Katharine, queen of England; and on his
decease in that year, his heir and successor was William Turk. Thomas Legatt, of the Legatts of
Stapleford Tany, was the next owner of these two manors, and also of several other possessions
in the neighbourhood: he died in 1555, leaving his son Thomas his heir.
This statement leaves us with a problem. Our records agree from the
point of John Wright that died in 1644, on down. We question, and hope someone will correct us
on this John's ancestors. To us, it looks as though two generations of John Wrights were left
out.
The next recorded possessor was John Wright, whose family was of Kelvedon Hatch; his
descendant, sir Henry Wright, died unmarried in 1681, leaving his sister Anne, a rich heiress,
married, first, to Edmund, son and heir of Robert Pye, of Berkshire, by whom she had several
sons and five daughters: she gave this estate to Edward Carteret, esq. Uncle to Earl Granville,
and one of the post-masters-general, who married the lady Bridget Sudbury, widow, first, of sir
John Sudbury; then of Thomas Clutterbuck, esq. Who died in 1739, having had, by this lady,
several children, one of whom survived him except Bridget, maid of honour to queen Caroline,
and Anne Isabella, wife of admiral Cavendish. These co-heiresses, in 1743, sold this estate to
Henry Muilman, esq.
Sir Henry Wright built a house here, and he, or some of his descendants, inclosed a park: Mr
Carteret improved the house, and erected a chapel.
This beautiful seat was purchased, in 1772, by sir Richard Neave, bart. Who pulled down the
ancient houise, and erected the present elegant mansion, on a new site: it now belongs to his son,
sir Thomas Neave, bart.
Cockerels Manor: The manor called Cockerels joins south-westward to the park of
Dagenhams, and is now only a farm: it belonged to John de Wand, who died in 1251. William
Senefeld, son of Emma, his eldest sister, and Julian, wife of Robert Cockerel, another sister of
the said John, were his next heirs. In 1454 it passed, with Dagenhams, to the earl of
Northumberland; from whom it was conveyed to Husee and Legatt, and the Wrights; and
passing, as Dagenhams did, to the daughters of Edward Carteret, esq. It was sold to Henry
Muilman, esq.
[There has been much confusion on my part in the use of the parish of Dagenham
and Dagenhams Manor. I now believe the use of Dagenham
in a lot of our research material, is meant to mean Dagenhams Manor
and not the
parish. If you feel different or question this, please let me know.]
John Wright, of Kelvedon Hatch, had three sons: Robert, from whom descended the Wrights of
Brook-street; John, the ancestor of the Wrights of South Weald; and a second John, of Wright's
Bridge, near Hornchurch, but within the parish of South Weald, and of Gray's Inn, who died in
1644. By his wife Mary, daughter of John Mole, and Elizabeth, sister of sir Thomas Cheke, he
had Laurence Wright, M.D., who died in 1657, leaving his son and heir Henry, created a baronet
in 1660; who died in 1663; he married Anne, daughter of John lord Crew, of Steine, by whom he
had sir Henry Wright.
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WEBPAGE-HISTORY
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