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- --- "The History and Topography of the County of Essex" by Thomas Wright, 1836, page 537:
In 1608, Overhall was sold to John Sparrow, Esq. of this parish, second son of John Sparrow, of Sible Hedingham, who, in 1622, disposed of it to John Elliston the elder, and John Elliston the younger, his son, clothiers, of Sible Hedingham.
The ancestor of this family, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was John Elliston, mercer, of Sudbury, who had a capital mansion-house in Castle Hedingham; and an estate in Great Henny, called Nicholls, which he left to his eldest son, William, by will, dated 1586. His second son, John, became the most considerable person of the family. The daughters were, Elizabeth, married to William Kidgell, and Joan and Dorothy.
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- 1639
