Little Clacton, St James, Essex: parish registers

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For “Died” 10 APR 1755 of John Sparling

County: Essex; Place: Little Clacton; Church name: St James; Register type: Parish Register; Register entry number: 4; Burial date: 10 Apr 1755; Burial person forename: John; Burial person surname: SPARLING

FreeREG record page, fetched 2026-09-19. Same day and month as the tree's uncited death of 10 Apr 1753; the year differs by two. The only 10 April Sparling burial in the transcription; no age given. Same failure pattern as #15805 (day and month right, year wrong).

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For “Died” 30 APR 1774 of John William Sparling

County: Essex; Place: Little Clacton; Church name: St James; Register type: Parish Register; Burial date: 30 Apr 1774; Burial person forename: John; Burial person surname: SPARLING

FreeREG record page (Helen Barrell transcription), fetched 2026-09-19. The register gives no age or parentage; a burial date, not a death date. Replaces the tree's uncited 30 Apr 1794 (same day and month). Why this John: (1) the only other John Sparling burial in the parish is 10 Apr 1755, matching #15803 (below); (2) Elizabeth SPARLING, 'widow' of this parish, married Edward GOODWIN (widower) on 21 Sep 1775, 16 months later, and #15805's only known wife Elizabeth Smith bore her last child Elizabeth in Sep 1771; (3) no Sparling burial of any John exists in 1794 in the Little Clacton transcription.

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For John Lott Leggett (1831–1907)

County Essex | Place Little Clacton | Church name St James | Register type Parish Register | Register entry number 335 | Baptism date 17 May 1831 | Person forename John Lot | Person sex M | Mother forename Elizabeth | Mother surname LEGGETT | Person abode Lt Clacton | Transcribed by Arnold Webb

Every field the FreeREG record page displays, in its own order; the page states that only fields with a value are shown, so the absence of father forename and father surname means the register recorded no father. Abode Lt Clacton matches the birth place recorded for #15491.

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For Elizabeth Smith (1736–1805)

County: Essex; Place: Little Clacton; Church name: St James; Register type: Parish Register; Register entry number: 121; Marriage date: 21 Sep 1775; Groom forename: Edward; Groom surname: GOODWIN; Groom parish: Of this parish; Groom condition: widower; Bride forename: Elizabeth; Bride surname: SPARLING; Bride parish: Of this parish; Bride condition: widow; Witness1: William SEMMONS; Witness2: James BREWER; Notes: Licence all sign

FreeREG record page, fetched 2026-09-19. Read as Elizabeth (Smith) Sparling remarrying after John Sparling's burial of 30 Apr 1774; the register does not name her maiden name or her late husband, so this is inference from the only Sparling widow Elizabeth of the parish. Not added to the tree as a marriage. The tree's death for her (6 Mar 1805) was not checked against a Goodwin burial (none found 1774-1810 under Goodwin in Little Clacton).

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For William Sparling (1765–1816)

County: Essex; Place: Little Clacton; Church name: St James; Register type: Parish Register; Baptism date: 10 Feb 1765; Person forename: William; Person relationship: son of; Person sex: M; Father forename: John; Father surname: SPARLING; Mother forename: Elizabeth; File line number: 122

FreeREG record page (fields in page order). A baptism, not a birth. Siblings from the same register: John 25 Dec 1759, Elisabeth 11 Mar 1762 (buried 19 May 1763), Samuel 29 May 1768, Elizabeth 15 Sep 1771, all to John and Elizabeth Sparling. Contradicts the tree year 1763.