Welcome to this weeks Scavenger Hunt and it's SDBadgers' turn. I've read through it and it looks really interesting. I know you'll get your teeth into this one.
Have fun.
Good Luck and Good Hunting.
Barbara
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I am trying to locate the birth/baptism record for my g-g-g-grandfather Joseph HEARNE. Depending on census, he is either of North Repps or Thorpe (Market), Norfolk, and would be born ca. 1790.
I’ve checked both parish registers and do not find him listed in either. Too, I’ve checked variants (HERNE/HURN/HEARN/HURNE/HERN, etc). There is one family having children about the correct time, but I cannot put him with this family.
Joseph HORNE m. Lucy WELLER
17 December 1818, by Banns in Knockholt, Kent. Both are listed “of this parish.”
Witnesses are John WHITEHEAD and Jane WELLER
Joseph signed his name as “HERNE”
(Knockholt parish register entry)
Joseph and Lucy resided in the neighboring parish of Westerham, Kent, and all their children were born there:
Sarah
21 Feb 1819
Eliza
1820
M. Thomas PARRETT Mar 1865, St George Hanover Square, London, Middx
Mary
3 Oct 1822
William
3 Jul 1825
M. Sarah NEIGHBOUR Jun 1853, Camberwell, Surrey
Anne
2 Sep 1827
Hannah
15 Aug 1829
Charlotte
2 Feb 1837
M. Robert LUFF 22 Jun 1862, St George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey
(note: her father is listed as Thomas HEARNE, but Thomas is her brother)
(marriage cert and parish register entry)
Thomas
26 Jun 1836
(all baptisms from Westerham parish register)
1841 Westerham census “in Town”:
Charlotte Hearne 7
Hannah Hearne 11
Joseph Hearne 45 Postmaster and “Y” for “Whether born in this county”
Lucy Hearne 40
Mary Hearne 15
Thomas Hearne 5
William Hearne 15
1851 Westerham census:
Joseph is 61 and Postmaster born Thorpe, Norfolk
Lucy 56
Eliza ?
William 26 (occ. unreadable)
Emily ? Grand daugh
Mary Ann ? Grand daugh
(census image not easy to decipher; cannot readily locate in ancestry.com; must have been mistranscribed)
(Please note: Amended inclusion for 1851 census. Hearne mistranscribed as THORNE. Barbara)
Joseph Hearne head mar 61 post master b Thorpe Norfolk
Lucy wife mar 54 b Kent , Westerham, Kent
Eliza dau 20 b Westerham , Kent
William son 26 horse keeper b Westerham, Kent
Emily granddaughter 8 b Middlesex , London
Mary Ann 1 grand daughter b Dartford Kent
1861 census on Squerries Lodge, Westerham:
Ann Herne 33 Laundress
Eliza Herne 40 Laundress
Joseph Herne 71 Fly Proprietor Owner Thorpe, Norfolk
Lucy Herne 63
Mary Ann Herne 11 (granddaughter) Scholar
1871 census on High Street, Westerham:
Joseph Hearne 81 Invalid Nortrepps, Norfolk
Lucy Hearne 74
Eliza Parrott 50 (daughter/wife)
Thomas Parrott 42 (son in law) Wheelwright
(all census images from ancestry.com or LDS library Westerham census)
Joseph HEARNE was buried 10 November 1878 and is listed as 90 years old, which would indicate a 1788/9 birth.
(Sevenoaks, 2a 349)
I’ve found him in various trade directories and he seemed to have to do with horses for most of his life.
I’ve ordered his death certificate and may have it in time to glean additional information to provide to the YTG for the hunt.
