Acton (Suffolk)
Acton CDs
| Acton: A Transcription of the 1841 Census.
CD-ROM. A transcription of the 1841 Census of the Suffolk village of Acton, near Sudbury, taken
from the original census enumerator's returns. Price: £5.95 including postage & packing.
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This item can also be instantly downloaded from Place name: Many sources give the meaning as "place by the oaks" or "oak-town," however, Skeat (The Place Names of Suffolk ) believes it is derived from Acatun or Aca's Town, Aca being a known Anglo-Saxon name.
Administration: Acton was in the hundred of Babergh, the Deanery of Sudbury, the Union of Sudbury, Melford Rural District and Babergh District (from 1974).
Population: 83 recorded in 1086 (Domesday); 539 in 1851 and 1,926 in 1981.
Church: All Saints. Famous for its monumental brasses dating from the 14th century.
Key People & Events: 1597: Alice Rogers excommunicated. 1643: Arthur Daniel, a Roman Catholic, executed at Tyburn for spying. 1749: Charles Drew tried for the murder of his father in Long Melford. 1847: Catherine Foster, aged 17, hanged at Bury St Edmunds, for poisioning her husband. 18th-19th centuries: the wealthy Jennens family, one of whom was known as the "Acton miser." The related court case, Jennens vs Jennens, is thought to have inspired Charles Dickens to use the fictional "Jarndyce vs Jarndyce" case as the basis for the plot of Bleak House.
www.ukpast.com is a Bibliopolis website. Photograph of Acton parish church by K. J. Fletcher. All images & text copyright Bibliopolis Books, 2007