The Revd Abraham Blackborne was a vicar in

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, who died at age 82 in 1797, having served for 58 years. Blackborne also served a parish in Middlesex, where he and his wife Frances (née Fanshawe) had the use of an estate in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, according to their deed of 1791. Blackborne was the grandson of Sir

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and was married to Frances Fanshawe of Parsloes Manor in Dagenham. Blackborne and his wife are buried at Saint Anne's Church,

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Background

At the time of

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, the entire manor of

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, to which the church was appended, was owned by Sir Thomas Darcy. Subsequently the manor was sold to the Blackborne family, and ultimately the heirs of William Blackborne Esq.,

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, sold to the BonyngesElizabeth Ogborne
The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Printed for the Proprietors by R.H. Kelham, London, 1814, p. 61. after Blackborne suffered devastating financial losses in the

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