Progress To Date

Great Grandparent: Henry Thomas Hayes
- His Parents: Thomas William Hayes & Elizabeth Bradbrook
- His Grandparents: Thomas Hayes & Mary Anne Mason

Mini Family Tree (Direct Ancestors)

The family tree to date may be summarised:

Hayes Family

?Thomas Hayes b c 1805
Married c 1825
?Mary Anne Mason b c 1805

Thomas William Hayes b c 1828
Married 7.5.1854
Elizabeth Bradbrook b c 1829

Henry Thomas Hayes b 11.07.1849
Married 3.10.1869
Charlotte Gardner c 1845/8

Charlotte Hayes b 15.08.1876
Married 06.06.1897
William Bower b 23.10.1867

Frederick Bower b 12.09.1910
d 10.9.2006
Married 11.07.1936
Doris Ivy Brecht b 15.03.1912
d 29.6.2003

Colin Malcolm Bower b 12.01.1944
Married 15.10.1966
Christine Elizabeth Collier b 26.03.1946

Link to Family Tree

Henry Thomas Hayes & Descendants

Summary of Research To Date

There were a number of bricklayers living in the Islington/Clerkenwell area in the 19th Century including Thomas William Hayes and Henry Thomas Hayes.

A correspondent found details of the christening of a Thomas Wiliam Hayes (father Thomas Hayes) in 1828, which should prove to be our Thomas William.

My grandmother Charlotte Hayes was a brushmaker when she married in 1897.

Birth Marriage & Death Certificates Held
- Birth: 4
- Marriage: 2+2 Unwanted
- Death: 1 Unwanted

Certificates Held-Hayes Family

Census Records Obtained
- 1841 Thomas & Mary Ann (Mason) & family
- Fenn Bradbrook & family
- 1851 Thomas & Mary Ann (Mason) & Family
- Thomas & Elizabeth (Bradbrook) Hayes & family
- 1861 Ruth Bradbrook & family
- Thomas & Elizabeth (Bradbrook) Hayes & family
- 1871 Thomas W & Elizabeth (Bradbrook) Hayes & Family
- Henry & Charlotte (Gardner) Hayes & family
- 1881 Thomas & Elizabeth (Bradbrook) Hayes & family
- Henry & Charlotte (Gardner) Hayes & family
- Robert & Martha (Hayes) Cooper & family
- 1891 ?Thomas & Sarah Hayes
- Charlotte (Gardner) Hayes, Widow & family
- 1901 ?Thomas & Sarah Hayes
- ?Henry Hayes
- John Reuben Hayes
- 1911 John Reuben Hayes

Census Records Held

Other Research Undertaken
- IGI - Sheets for Hayes (London) held
- Parish Records - bp Thomas William Hayes
- Wills
- Businesses - nil
- Correspondence: One correspondent had researched the Hayes family name in the 1861 Census and was also able to identify christening of Thomas William Hayes
- Visits - nil
- Photographs
- Misc Info/documents

Progress 2004

An internet search traced my Uncle John Reuben Hayes, previously thought to be Reuben. I have also used freebmd to trace the marriage of Thomas William Hayes and Elizabeth Bradbrook.

Progress 2005

John Reuben Hayes was born in yet another address in Islington!

I duly obtained the marriage certificate of Thomas William Hayes and Elizabeth Bradbrook in 1854; bit of a surprise when their son Henry was born in 1849! Previously I had found Elizabeth's family in the 1841 and 1851 Censuses.

The new London 1891 Census solved a mystery as to who Stone Marsh Hayes (1881 Census) was. It turned out to be Thomas Hayes!

It also shows that the Hayes Family moved from Islington to Mile End; so that is how Grandma met Grandpa!

Progress 2006/7

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Progress 2008

I was contacted by a descendant of Martha Hayes. the latter was a witness at Henry & Charlotte (Gardner) Hayes' wedding.

I was able to add a number of entries in the Censuses (1841, 1851, 1861, 1881, 1891, 1901) including Martha (Hayes) Cooper.

Progress 2009

I traced John Reuben Hayes in the 1911 Census.

Progress 2010

I wrote up a report as part of the Big One! Project:

The Big One! - Hayes Family

Progress 2011

In January 2011, I made a visit to London to walk some of the streets that some of my ancestors walked, taking photos as I went.

I first made my way to see the new St Pancras station and then walked the Kings Cross/Pentonville area where the Hayes family had bricklaying interests and where Fenn Bradbrook was a silversmith in Thornhill Street (now Wyford Road):

Visit to London January 2011

Progress 2015

Robinson/Bradbrook Family Tree

A distant cousin sent me details of the burial of Susannah Amears, who was the Great Grandmother of Fenn Bradbrook:

Susannah Robinson (maiden name Amears) born 26.4.1679 died 1 May 1772 Boxgrove (Chichester District, West Sussex) and was buried at St Mary& St Blaise Church, per findagrave.com

Progress 2016/7

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Things we wish we knew

• Whether Thomas Hayes moved from Chiswick to St Marylebone and married again
• Whther Henry Hayes moved to Greenwich and married again
• Birth certificate of another of Charlotte Hayes' siblings, Thomas born 1873/4
• Where Charlotte Hayes was a brushmaker (per Marriage certificate)
• What happenend to her sister Mary and brother Thomas
• Marriage of John Reuben Hayes

Colin Bower
24 December 2017

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Family History - Main Index