Bean Family History by Willoughby John Bean
[ Edwin Samuel Bean contd. ]
open street or market there to the London Street hawkers. He was a tall spare man with a rich, round voice and I can quite believe as old fishermen have told me that he could easily attract attention as he called "Who'l buy, Here's your Maldon Clays" meaning winkles grown and caught on the flats of Maldon river. He had a big punt gun known on the Blackwater as "Teddy Bean's gun" - also worked the Decoy for ducks in season. He was a bachelor all his life, retired when he was getting old, lived in a cottage farm at Stock afterwards alone in a cottage near or in Ingatestone, crocked up all at once, was taken to Ongar and died there at his brother Henry's. I doubt if he had anything left when he died, if so Uncle Henry had it - he was buried at Ongar.
John, after leaving Haxells I do not know what other ...