Title:
NEAVE FAMILY OF ROMFORD AND PRITTLEWELL
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
NEAVE FAMILY OF ROMFORD AND PRITTLEWELL
Admin History:
The Neave family was of Norfolk extraction. James Neave of Walthamstow and London married Susanna, daughter of Thomas Truman, a London merchant, and their son, Richard, entered into partnership with Susanna's brother, Thomas Truman, junior, as West India merchants. The partnership proved a prosperous one; Richard Neave purchased the manor and estate of Dagnams in Noak Hill in 1772 and the manor and estate of Earls Hall in Prittlewell in 1791. He was a governor of the Bank of England in 1780 and sheriff of Essex in 1794 and was created baronet in 1795. He died in 1814 and was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas.

There is no evidence in the deeds of any extensive additions to the estates through marriage.
Related Unit of Description:
On 30 August 2017 Reeman Dansie of Colchester sold (lot 2544):
a map by G. Sangster described as 'An actual survey of Dagnam Park in the County of Essex, with common ways and waters belonging to Richard Neave Esq. 1789', which presumably once formed a set with D/DNe P4, 5;
an 18th-century family tree of the Neave and May family; and
a small framed coloured etching of Dagnam's House.