Hi Keith
Doesn't the
1772 settlement certificate mentioned last year by
jonw65 show that John HEARN came to Groton from Stoke [by] Nayland, where
rosie99 found the baptism of John HERN in 1740? It seems that he was a little older than the 90 years recorded at the time of his burial in 1835.
As noted by
trish1120, John HEARN's wife Frances was a daughter of Walter and Sarah PONDER (not PINDER), baptized at Groton in 1744 (
FamilySearch.org). Frances and her parents don't appear to have left any wills, but those of her sister Sarah (
c.1747-1812) and husband Joseph HOLBOROW (m. Groton 1792) were both registered by the PCC in 1830. Written in 1810,
Sarah's will names her five nephews, John, William, Walter, Daniel and Thomas HEARN. Baptisms identify them as sons of John and Frances:
1776 John HEARN at Boxford
1777 William HEARN at Boxford
1779 Walter HERN at Boxford
1780 Daniel HERNE at Boxford
1783 Thomas HEARN at Groton
Siblings baptized at Groton in 1772 and 1784-1788 died as infants. Their sister Sarah, born c.1782, was probably buried at Hadleigh in 1810.
When Joseph HOLBOROW of Hadleigh made
his will in 1824, his first wife's nephew John HEARN had "lately departed this life". Copies of these wills can be downloaded free of charge while TNA is closed. Ancestry has Sarah's under her maiden name, PONDER; I've submitted a correction. Although I haven't located John's burial (sometime between 1810 and 1824) he is clearly not the man buried at Worlingworth in 1840 whose ancestry you hope to trace.
Perhaps the time has come to review the data posted
here in 2018 and focus on the HEARN or HURREN family of Kelsale. I now see that Norfolk Sources is not the best website for John HURREN's will (NCC 1813, will no 130, folios 229 to 233 verso). A much better copy is available from FamilySearch.org (after signing in), starting with
image 532 of 681 in the register for 1812-1813. (Hyperlinks for NCC and other Norfolk probate court documents were given a few weeks ago in
message #467 to the Suffolk io Group.)
David
