Christening: 4 JUL 1566, High Ongar, Essex, England [citation needed]
Marriage: ABT 1608/9, High Ongar, Essex, England [citation needed]
Death: 23 MAR 1600/1, Rayne, Essex, England [citation needed]
Research Notes
Conflicting Dates
The marriage date is in conflict with the death date, and both are in conflict with the birth dates for his children. More research is needed.
More information on High Ongar
Using A Vision of Britain Through Time, the location for the birth and death of John Crow is found to be High Ongar, Essex, (instead of Highinegar, Essex). John Crow died in Rayne, Essex (instead of Rayna).
High Ongar, Essex, England,[1] on the river Roding, is an ancient village 22 miles SE of Braintree where Rev. Hooker's congregation, including John Crow's son-in-law William Goodwin, gathered. The parish church in High Ongar dates back to the 1100's.[2]
Historically, High Ongar was mainly occupied by tenant farmers, with an average of thirty acres, and some much larger.[3]
Rayne, Essex [4] is a small village 2 miles SE of Braintree, on the river Brain.
↑A Vision of Britain Through Time, database, Great Britain Historical GIS Project (2004) 'Great Britain Historical GIS'. University of Portsmouth; Rayne
A Vision of Britain Through Time, database, Great Britain Historical GIS Project (2004) 'Great Britain Historical GIS'. University of Portsmouth; Rayne
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Hi Mike, I have done a little research on the Crow family. I discovered that there is no such place as Highinegar, but there is a town, High Ongar, in Essex county England. Rayna is also not a place, but there is a little village named Reyne in Essex county England.