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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Sussex => England => Sussex Lookup Requests => Topic started by: NewWorl on Friday 26 June 20 21:55 BST (UK)
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Hello all! I'm searching for any census records before 1901 as well as birth and baptism records for an Alfred Hazelden. The surname is very open to variation, I've come across a number of variations including Hayzeldean, Hazeldon, and Hayzleden. He definitely died in 1939, I have his death certificate.
I know he was born in Uckfield, Sussex around 1864 but besides a birth index, I've found no trace of him. His marriage record says that his father was a Richard Hazelden, but I've failed to find any Richard Hazelden in that general area around that time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Presumably this is the birth registration - no separate mother’s maiden name indicating likely illegitimacy:
Alfred Hazeldon, Sep qtr 1864 Uckfield 2b 106.
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Is he the one who married Matilda Esther Upperton in 1893 (Tonbridge RD), or another one?
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He married Mary Anne Offord in 1893 at St Matthew's in Brixton.
I hadn't thought about him being illegitimate, I'll see what Hazelden's were in the area at the time.
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Please can you give us his details from the 1901 and 1911 census entries so that we don’t have to hunt for them.
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It looks likely he was a stepson of Richard Brockwell, who married Maria Hazelden in Tower Hamlets in 1878.
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Course! 1901 Census he was with his wife in Lambeth, age says 35 and that he was a plate layer. Birth was apparently in Oldham Lancashire, and he had one son, called Alfred.
1911 Census he's 44, got five kids now and lives in lambeth still. Birth Place says Uckfield Sussex
this time.
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Where are you getting middle name William from?
1864 birth as Alfred Hazelden
1881 census Alfred Brockwell (poss transcribed Brackwell)
1891 census Alfred Brockwell
1901 census Alfred Hazeldon
1911 census Alfred Hazelden
1939 death as Alfred Hazelden
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Apologies, when I first had a look at him, I mistakenly thought his birth was in 1868. I forgot to change it when I discounted the record.
Whoops
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Richard Brockwell and Maria née Hazelden seem to have been close to the Offords - Joseph and Margaret Offord witnessed their marriage in 1878 and lived a couple of households up the page in the 1881 census. Perhaps it was their daughter Mary Ann Offord who went on to marry Alfred.
In 1891 Maria’s possible brother James Hazelden (44 b Berwick) is living with his family a couple of doors up from the Brockwells in Streatham.
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Thanks for all your help! I'll definitely crack on tomorrow putting this into my tree. From the marriage record, Maria seems to have been born around 1854. I assume this means Alfred was a very young teenage pregnancy, was it common for the baby to stay home with the Mother at that age, or to be sent away to relatives?
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Maria’s 40 in 1881 and 50 in 1891, so not such a youngster. She was buried at Norwood 11 Aug 1891, aged 50, as Maria Hazelton Brockwell.
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Actually she was a bit older than that. Birth registered as Maria Hazelden (mother’s maiden name Davidson), Jun qtr 1838 Berwick, and baptised 29 March 1838 Berwick, daughter of Leonard and Margaret.
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Weird, guess she lied on her marriage record