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URC, Castle Hedingham

Click on the 'play' symbol in the second image to see all my photographs of this church as a slide show, then click on any image in the slideshow to see it large in a new page. Alternatively, if you don't have flash enabled, you can go straight to the set for this church on flickr. Today known as Castle Hedingham United Reformed Church, and rebuilt on this site in 1842. But when my great-great-great-great-grandfather Daniel Harrall was baptised here in 1788 it was known as the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters. The Harralls were from the neighbouring parish of Sible Hedingham, and Daniel's parents, my great-great-great-great-great-grandparents John and Sarah Harrall, were buried in this graveyard. But Daniel left Essex for the Hoo peninsula in Kent, buying 40 acres of land and settling down as a farmer, as well as being a leading member of the Protestant Dissenting Chapel in Strood in the Medway Towns. His grand-daughter, Mary Ann Harrall, grew up in Higham, the next parish to Strood, at the time that Charles Dickens lived and died there. Mary Ann's grandson was my grandfather, Joe Knott, born Dartford, Kent 1908, lived Strood 1912-1932, died Ely, Cambridgeshire 1996. Simon Knott, September 2012

 

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