Extinct Chapters in the Province of Essex

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Date of Warrant

Original Number

Name

Lodge Connected With

Meeting Place

Reason for Extinction

Date of Extinction

1776

12

Unity

Unity 496

Colchester

Erased

1791

21/05/1785

43

Rectitude

Social 505

Bocking
/Chelmsford

Erased

May 1822

14/12/1789

53

Goodwill

Goodwill 491

Braintree

Erased

May 1822

25/10/1798

115

Hermes

Prestonian Lodge of
Perfect Friendship 560

Grays

Left Essex

1822*

26/01/1808

156

Concord

Gothic 186

Harwich

Erased

1828

20/10/1804

111(A)

Trafalgar 111(A)

Colchester
/Brightlingsea

Erased

05/03/1828

1809

156(A)

Royal Horse Artillery 156(A)

Colchester

Erased

05/03/1828

11/10/1810

351(A)

Royal Veterans 351(A)

Harwich

Erased

1833

3/11/1795

295(A)

Hope and Unity

Romford

Erased

1822**

02/08/1849

186

Alston

True Friendship 160

Rochford

Erased

07/08/1861

02/02/1853

817

North Essex

North Essex 817

Braintree

Erased

05/06/1861

01/02/1928

4455

Almaston Almaston Upminster Erased 08/02/1967

*

Now working as No.77 Sidcup Kent

**

New Constitution 1841 Still Working

(A) = "Atholl" or Ancient Lodges. These had no separate Chapters but worked Exaltations in the Lodges.
The following Travelling Military Lodges of the Ancients were stationed in Essex and worked Exaltations:-
6th Inniskilling Dragoons No.311 (Romford). Westminster Militia No. 309 (Colchester).
1st East Devon Militia No.216 (Chelmsford). 23rd Regiment of Royal Fusiliers No. 252 (Colchester)
92nd Regiment No. 333 (Colchester,Weeley). Wilts Militia No. 282 (Harwich, Colchester). Essex Provincial Grand Lodge

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