Eve Surname Pages


TREE OF WILLIAM EVE (born 1761) GREAT WALTHAM


Second Generation


2 William Eve

William Eve was born in 1794 at Great Waltham. He died there in 1873.

He married Mary Webb in 1817 at Chelmsford. She died in Great Waltham aged 86 in 1882. They had the following children all born in Chelmsford:

  • Ann Eve - born 1819
  • Mary Eve - born 1821
  • William Eve - born 1822. He died the same year.
  • Fred Eve (5) - born 1827

In the 1841 census William , Mary , Fred and Ann were living in Moulsham, at Friars Place. His occupation is listed as a Fellmonger. By 1851 Ann had left and William is now a Leather Dresser.

In 1861 William and Mary are living with Fred and his wife and their children born in Yorkshire. He is now described as a Skindresser, as is Fred.


3 John Eve

John Eve was born in 1795 in Great Waltham and died there in 1878.

He married Mary Speller in 1820 at Great Waltham and she died there in 1879. They had the following children , all born in Great Waltham.

  • John Eve (6) - born 1823
  • Susan Eve - born 1826
  • Amelia Eve - born 1828. She married Charles Harmer in 1848 at Great Waltham
  • Charles Eve - born 1830
  • Martha Eve - born 1833. She had a base born son John Surridge born 1863.
  • George Eve - born 1836. In 1881 he was a bachelor living at Pleshey.
  • Alfred Eve (8) - born 1839

In 1851 John and Mary lived at 'Clay Chimneys' Great Waltham. In 1861 George was still living with them now at 'Clay Cottage'


4 Ben Eve

Ben Eve was born in 1796 at Great Waltham and died there in 1873.

He married Nehetable Boreham in 1817 at Felsted. She died in 1844 aged 55 at Gt. Waltham. They had the following children all born at Great Waltham.

  • Maria Eve - born 1818. She married George Ralph in 1844 at Great Easton.
  • William Eve - born 1820
  • Sara Eve - born 1821. She married John Monk in 1847 at Great Waltham
  • Nehetable Eve - born 1823. She married George Richardson in 1845 in Great Waltham
  • Hannah Eve - born 1825
  • John Eve (9) - born 1826
  • James Eve - born 1828

In 1841 Ben and his wife were living with Ben's father William, with John and James. Nehetable and Hannah were working as servants in Gt. Dunmow.

By 1861 Ben was a widow and lodging at Chignal St. James. He was working as an agricultural labourer.


Third Generation


5 Frederick Eve

Frederick Eve was born in 1827 in Chelmsford. He died there in 1878.

He married Elizabeth from Little Leighs in1855 in Sheffield. They had the following children:

  • William Henry Eve (10) - born in 1855
  • Fred James Eve - born 1859. He married in Chelmsford in 1892.
  • Walter Robert Eve - born 1862 He married Mary Elizabeth. from Kelvedon some time before 1891.
  • When he was 19 he was serving on the HMS Invincible.
  • Mary Ann Eve - born about 1860.
  • Owen Edward Eve (11) - born 1867.
  • George Eve - born 1868
  • Arthur Herbert Eve - born 1870. He married in 1890 in Clitheroe, Lancashire.
  • Alice Marie Eve - born 1874. she died in 1893
  • Frank Eve - born 1876. He died in 1881.

In 1841 and 1851 Fred lived with his parents at Friars Place, Moulsham.

In 1861. He and his family have returned from Sheffield and still live with his parents. He is now a skin dresser like his father.

By 1871 they are living at Rainsford End and young William Henry aged 13 is a trainee skin dresser.

In 1881 Fred has died but his widow and his widowed mother and the rest of the family are living together in Chelmsford.


6 John Eve

John Eve was born in 1795 in GReat Waltham. He died in 1899 at Pleshey

He married Miriam in 1859 at Pleshey. They had the following children at Pleshey:

  • John Eve - born 1858
  • Arthur Eve - born 1864
  • Fred Eve - born 1866
  • Ellen Eve - born 1869
  • Charlotte Eve - born 1871
  • Nathanial Eve - born 1875. He married in 1900 at Chelmsford. Nothing else known
  • David Eve - born 1877
  • Herbert Eve - born 1879. He married in 1903 at Gt. Dunmow

John can't be found on the census until 1861 where he has married Miriam and is living at Pleshey as an agricultural labourer. He is also recorded in the 1881 and 1891 census living in Pleshey.


7 Charles Eve

Charles Eve was born in 1830 in Great Waltham. He died in 1903 in West Ham.

He married Sara Joyce in 1855 at Great Waltham. She died aged 73 in West Ham in 1908. They had the following children born in Great Waltham:

  • William Eve - born 1855. He died in 1886
  • John Eve - born 1858
  • Susan Eve - born 1859
  • Charlotte Eve - born 1861
  • Ameila Eve - born 1866
  • Charles Eve - born 1867
  • Jonas Eve - born 1869
  • Fred Eve - born 1872
  • Mary Ann Eve - born 1875
  • Elinor Eve - born 1877

In 1851 Charles was living with his parents at 'Clay Chimney'. By 1861 he had married and was at 'Oak Hall', where he was up to 1891.


8 Alfred Eve

Alfred Eve - born 1839 Great Waltham. He married Catherine Blake in 1861 and had the following children:

  • Alfred Charles Eve - born 1862
  • Ann Eve - born 1864. She married Charles Mecklenburgh in 1883. Annie died in 1946. They had 10 children - see link for further details Family of Annie (Eve) and Charles Mecklenburgh
  • Edward Eve - born 1867. He died in 1879
  • George Eve - born 1869
  • Ellen Mary Eve - born 1870
  • Alice Eve - born 1874
  • Robert Eve - born 1877
  • Kate Eve - born 1880

Alfred was in Gt. Waltham until he married . While they lived in Church St. Chelmsford he was an Ostler.

In the census of 1871 he was living at Sandon at 'Blue Houses' and was described as a 'Groom out of place' In 1881 he was back in Chelmsford.


9 John Eve

John Eve was born in 1826 in Great Waltham. He died in 1906.

He married Ellin in 1850 at Dunmow. She died 1869. They had the following children:

  • Clara Eve - born 1850 in Little Dunmow
  • William Thomas Eve (12)- born 1852
  • Charles Eve - born 1854
  • John Eve - born 1854
  • Simon Eve (13) - born 1855
  • Emily Eve - born 1858 Little Dunmow
  • Lydia Lucy Eve - born 1860 Little Dunmow
  • Kate Eve - born 1862 Little Dunmow
  • David Eve - born 1864. Nothing known after 1881 when he was living with his new family at Eastwood.
  • Ellen Eve - born 1866. She died in 1867

John then married Mary Ann who was born in 1844. She died in died in 1906. They had the following children:

  • Ellen Eve - born 1870 Rochford
  • Annie Eve - born 1871 Shopland
  • Louise Eve - born 1873 L. Wakering
  • Arthur James Eve - born 1876
  • Emma Eve - born 1878 L.Wakering
  • George James Eve - born 1879
  • Edith Eve - born 1880 Eastwood.

In 1861 John and Ellin were living in Little Dunmow. When Ellin died John married Mary Ann from Foulness. In 1881 they were living at Eastwood with seven of their children.