Eve Surname Pages


TREE OF THOMAS EVE II (born about 1720) HIGH EASTER


There were two Thomas Eve's born around 1720 and who lived in High Easter. This is the tree of the second Thomas Eve.


First Generation


1 Thomas Eve

Thomas Eve was born around 1720 in High Easter. He died in 1770 in High Easter.

He married Martha Green in 1740 in High Easter. They had the following children in High Easter.

  • Martha Eve - born 1740
  • Thomas Eve (2) - born 1744
  • James Eve - born 1745. He died in 1768.
  • Weston Eve (3) - born 1749. He died in 1822.
  • Sara Eve - born in 1756. She died in 1757.
  • Ann Eve - born in 1757.
  • Hannah Eve - born in 1762. She died the same year.
  • Joseph Eve (4) - born 1766. He died in 1841.


Second Generation


2 Thomas Eve

Thomas Eve was born in 1744 in High Easter.

He married Mary Barnard in 1764 in Aythorpe Roding. Their children were:

  • Mary Eve - born 1774.
  • Sara Eve - born 1771
  • Charles Eve - born 1744
  • Thomas Eve - born 1776


3 Weston Eve

Weston Eve was born in 1749 in High Easter. He died in 1822 in High Easter.
He married Lucy Wood in 1799 at Great Waltham. They had the following children all at High Easter.

  • Mary Eve - born 1774
  • Abraham Eve (5) - born 1777.
  • Weston Eve (6) - born 1780.
  • Phoebe Eve - born 1784
  • Bathsheba Eve - born 1786. She married Charles Emberson in 1811 in Great Waltham.
  • Charles Eve - born 1790
  • George Eve (7) - born 1793
  • James Eve (8) - born 1796


4 Joseph Eve

Joseph Eve was born in 1766 in High Easter. He died in 1841 in Great Waltham.

He married two sisters;

He first married Sara Hornsby in 1789 in High Easter. She died in 1799.

Sara's children were;

  • Joseph Eve (9) - born 1794.
  • Jeremiah Eve - born 1796. He died in 1798.

He then married Mary Hornsby in 1799 in Great Waltham, She died in 1837.

Sara's children were;

  • Sarah Eve - born 1800. She married S Coe widower in 1826 in Great Waltham.
  • Mary Eve - born 1803. She married Michael Herman in 1821 at Great Waltham.
  • Elizabeth Eve - born 1805. She married Michael Herman in 1821 in Great Waltham.
  • Sophie Eve - born 1808. She married Edward Reeve from Pleshey in 1824 in Great Waltham.
  • George Eve (10) - born 1811
  • Elizabeth Mary Eve - born 1818


Third Generation


5 Abraham Eve

Abraham Eve was born in 1777 in High Easter. He died in 1862 in Great Baddow.

He married Lucy Wood in 1799 in Great Waltham. She died in 1852 in Great Baddow.

They had the following children;

  • John Eve (11) - born 1801 in Great Waltham
  • Deborah Eve - born 1803.
  • Susan Eve - born 1804
  • Mary Eve - born 1807
  • Samuel Eve - born 1809. He died a bachelor in 1845 in Great Waltham
  • Cornelius Eve - born 1814. He died a bachelor in 1874 in Chelmsford workhouse. He was a baker.
  • George Eve - born 1816.
  • Adey Eve - born 1819.
  • Ada Eve - born 1821.

Abraham was a Congregationalist and all his children, apart from John, were baptised at Stock Congregationalist Church. A round trip of 20 miles by horse and cart to get to the monthly meetings.

The children were all born in Great Waltham.

In 1841 Abraham was a carter in Great Baddow and when Lucy died he moved to High Easter.


6 Weston Eve

Weston Eve was born in 1780 in High Easter. He died in 1826 at West Hanningford. He died from a bite from a mad dog. His death was the subject of a Coroners Warrant.

He first married Elizabeth Collins in 1800 at High Easter. She died soon after. He then married Sara Cable in 1802 in Great Waltham. She died in 1839 in West Hanningford.

Children of Elizabeth;

  • Rosanna Eve - born 1800. She died in 1816 in West Hanningford.

Children of Sarah

  • Mary Eve - born 1803 in Great Waltham
  • Elizabeth Eve - born 1806 in Great Waltham
  • Susan Eve - born about 1811. She was baptised in Chelmsford Congregational Church.
  • Josiah Eve (12) - born 1812.
  • William Eve - born 1814. He died the same year in West Hanningford.
  • Lydia Eve - born 1818 in West Hanningford. She was baptised in Stock Congregational Church. She had a base born son Ephraim (17) in 1838.
  • Enoch Eve - born 1820 in West Hanningford. He was baptised in Stock Congregational Church. He died in 1885 a bachelor in West Hanningford. He was an agricultural labourer.


7 George Eve

George Eve was born in 1793 at High Easter. He died in 1880 at Great Waltham.

He married Susan Adams in 1819 at Great Waltham. They had the following children born in Great Waltham.

  • Louisa Eve - born 1821. She had a base born son Fred Oliver in 1843.
  • Sophia Eve - born 1824
  • Charles Eve - born 1830. He died in 1831.
  • Mahalia Eve - born 1832.
  • Isabella Eve - born 1832.
  • George Albert Eve (13) - born 1835.
  • Deborah Eve - born 1839.
  • Angelina Eve - born 1842. She may have married in 1858.


8 James Eve

George Eve was born in 1796 in High Easter. He died in 1863 in Great Waltham.

He married Honor. She died in 1831 aged 31 years at Great Waltham. They had the following children also at Great Waltham:

  • Mary Ann Eve - born 1820 in Great Waltham. She was a servant working in Chelmsford when she married William Gowers in 1840.
  • Elizabeth Eve - born 1822 in Great Waltham. She married William Clarke in 1839 at Great Waltham.
  • Honor Eve - born 1825 in Great Waltham.
  • David Eve (14) - born 1827.
  • Eleanor Eve - born 1831. She died the same year.

In 1841 James was living with his mother Sara, then aged 85, and his son David in "The Street" in Great Waltham.

In 1851 he was a lodger with David and his wife in "Broad Green" Great Waltham.

In 1861 he still lived with David & Eliz and their family.


9 Joseph Eve

Joseph Eve was born in 1794 in High Easter. He died in 1877 in Great Waltham.

He married Emily Sorrel in 1812 in Great Waltham. She died in 1875. There is no record of any children.

In 1841 Joseph was an agricultural labourer. By 1851 he was a farmer employing 25 men. He lived at "Church End". Great Waltham.


10 George Eve

George Eve was born in 1811 at Great Waltham. He died there in 1858.

He married Abigail Chandler in 1828. She died aged 84 in Great Waltham. They had the following children. :

  • Emma Eve - born 1830
  • Harriet Eve - born 1832
  • Peter Eve - born 1834. He married in 1863 at Billericay.
  • James Eve - born 1838
  • Jane Eve - born 1840
  • Charlotte Eve - born 1843
  • Elizabeth Eve - born 1845
  • Caroline Eve - born 1848
  • John Eve - born 1851. He died the same year.

In 1841 the family lived at "The Street". He was an agricultural labourer. In 1842 they had moved to the "Great Road".

When George died Abigail moved to Braintree Road with James and Caroline in 1861.