Hearson Family Sussex

[lynellen]

I'm researching the HEARSON family from Sussex, in particular a John Hearson b.1771(not sure where) who died in Stedham Sussex in 1814.

I think he maybe the father of John Hearson who married Sarah Anderson in Chichester in 1817, who I'm hoping are the parents of Henry (John) Hearson b.1819 in Stedham.

I've also found a Mary Anne Hearson who married a William Atfield in Steadham in 1812 and a Charlotte Hearson who married a John Jones in Chichester in 1811

I'm trying to find out if they are all related and if so, how???
I'm also trying to find out if the original John Hearson b.1771 had any other children and who his wife was???

I would be really grateful if anyone can help me
Thanks

[maddys52]

For interest, the John HEARSON who was buried 4 July 1814, aged 43, at Stedham has abode Minsted.

[maddys52]

Just conjecture - There is a marriage for a John HEARSON (47, wid) of Clapham on 20 Dec 1848 to Caroline TAYLOR (40, spin). His father is John HEARSON, millwright. Of possible interest, there are advertisements in 1792 - looking for a John HEARSON, apprentice millwright, about 21, absconded from his master (John PEARSON of Boston) eg Friday,  Jan. 20, 1792, Publication: Stamford Mercury. This makes him the right age for the John HEARSON who died in 1814.

[maddys52]

The Henry HEARSON who was baptised at Stedham on 5 Mar 1819, had parents John Henry (millwright, of Stedham) and Sarah.

[lynellen]

Thank you Maddy, I had found the marriage between John Henry Hearson and Caroline Taylor in 1848. It's certainly the same John that was married to Sarah as he was living in the Clapham/Poplar area of London at the time. I presume Sarah must have died between 1835 and 1848 but can't find a death record for her.
I hadn't come across the Stamford Mercury article before, so am very interested in this, as it seems quite a coincidence with age and occupation. I'll do some searching in the Stamford area as I know there was a nucleus of Hearson's in Lincs. Great pointer, thank you.

[maddys52]

A few more records to throw into the pot, though I'm not sure that they are all necessarily related.

Some baptisms for children of a John and Sarah HEARSON:

5 Mar 1819  Henry (at Stedham), father - millwright

10 Mar 1827  Louisa Mary (at St Mary, Islington), father- carpenter
8 April 1832  Alexander Thompson (at West Hackney), father - carpenter. Buried 27 Dec 1837 at St John, Westminster)
(b 12 Aug 1834) bap 19 Feb 1852  Sarah Caroline (at St John, Clapham), father - engineer

There is also (b12 Dec 1824) bap 2 Jan 1825 John HOURSON (at St Mary,Rotherhithe), son of John and Sarah - though I can only find a transcription, not the actual image.

When Louisa Mary HEARSON marries in 1853 (to Edward ELLIS), she says her father John is an engineer. Sarah Caroline HEARSON is a witness.

There is a HEARSON family in Westminster in 1841:
John HEARSON   40  carpenter  (not born in county)
Sarah                    40                   (Y)
Louisa                    12
Thomas                  10
Sarah                       6
Frederick                 2
HO 107/ 737/16 pg 22

There is a Frederick Louis HEARSON birth registered Dec qtr 1838 in Westminster (1/325) mmn BLAIN.

So this looks like the likely family baptising those children in London, with father John being a carpenter/engineer. Also a burial for a Sarah HEARSON on 8 Nov 1843, aged 45 at St John, Westminster.

So ... I'm not sure that the baptism of Henry at Stedham is the same family who appear in London. The father John remarries in 1848 to Caroline TAYLOR and says he is an engine manufacturer, so that fits with the London family. But Sarah's maiden name was BLAIN, not ANDERSON.

Will think about this some more. 

[maddys52]

It looks like John HEARSON and his children Sarah and Frederick went to the US. They are in the 1855 New York census:

John HEARSON  56  (wid), brass worker. Resident 5 years
Sarah                   20  (resident 1 year)
Frederick              17  (resident 1 year), brass finisher

Next door is the ELLIS family (John's daughter - Louisa).

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GB53-98PV?i=39

[maddys52]

It also seems that John HEARSON died in New York in 1863 aged 65. the transcript of his death certificate says born Lincolnshire.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WQK-DZ2

[lynellen]

Thank you so much for all the information Maddy.
I hadn't found Frederick Lewis Hearson before and I still can't find a birth record with his mmn on, only very basic birth details.

Great to find that John moved to USA with some of his children and obviously the correct one with his daughter living next door. Guessing he must have been twice widowed by 1855 then as Caroline isn't on the census.

Interesting that his death records him as being born in Lincs around 1798 because that's where I spent all yesterday researching Hearsons. This could also still fit with being the son of John Hearson b.1771 in Spalding Lincs, who absconded from his master in 1792.

 I'm pretty sure that Henry Hearson (his son)(sometimes called John) was the one born in Stedham in 1819 as the 1871 census from Poplar in London gives him as being born in Sussex in 1819. I know this to be the correct Henry (John) Hearson as his children were born while he was a prison warder in the military prison on Gibraltar.

I do wish they had thought about future researchers and named their sons something other than John. Makes tracking them really difficult.