I think it could be Great Tey rather than Marks Tey. Reaney's Place Names of Essex (1969) lists Teyen, Teyn and Tayn as early spellings of Tey, and Much is an old word meaning great or large. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jack Beeching" <jbee18@shaw.ca> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:11 PM To: <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> Subject: [Ess] John Lawrence of Much Teyne > Hello, > > In the Coggeshall PRs there is a burial recorded 22 Aug 1605 for John > Lawrence of Much Teyne. Can anyone tell me if this is the name of a > house? > Thanks, > > Jack > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Many thanks to all who have replied. Great Tey makes perfect sense. Jack

On 05/04/2013 16:23, Dudley Diaper wrote: > I think it could be Great Tey rather than Marks Tey. Reaney's Place Names of > Essex (1969) lists Teyen, Teyn and Tayn as early spellings of Tey, and Much > is an old word meaning great or large. I would agree with this. Lawrence