"Sun" Office, Kalgoorlie, W.A.
August 13, 1911.
my dear Cousin (second cousin once removed, to be strictly
accurate, through John Hayward, Yeoman, of
Beverstone, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and
some other degree of relationship which I can't
reckon out, through the fact that your GreatGrandfather, Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward,
married Marie- Élizabeth Wiltens Andree in 1805
and my grandfather, Joakim Cooper Hayward, married
five years later, thel.ady's daughter by her first
husband) .
Posted up in family genealogical lore acquired from my father in
his last half dozen letters, I feel as if I would like to
communicate some of it to you, as you seem as much interested in
it as myself.
Here are some preliminary extracts from my father's
letters touching his acquaintance with your family.
"I saw Isaac Hayward (the second) at Ballarat in Dec. 1869.
Your correspondent's uncles, Herbert & Christopher, must
have remembered my visiting their father in years from 1859
to 1869, on one occasion with my brother Albert.
Your
correspondent"s aunt Eliza married A Mellor, widower, with
a heap of children in Melbourne".
So much for that.
In his last budget my father writes with more
freedom about Captain Isaac, who married the "wealthy and agreeable
widow from Surinam" in 1805, and makes it clear - which puzzled
me previously - why I never heard anything about his son from
other relatives in my boyhood.
I don't suppose you will be
offended if I give my father's version of the family estrangement.
"Ìr mother reared Isaac II and his brother John with her
own children, their parents living in Surinam and never
returning.
Subsequently their uncles, Jacob, at Beverstone
and Drinkwater Scott, at Protester, had them educated and
taught the brewing and milling trades respectively.
The Surinam estates were left only to the children of the
first marriage, nothing to the mother.
Isaac II, who was
at this time a brewer in Stroud, Gloucestershire, cut up
awkward.
He contested the will, both in Surinam and Hague
Courts, causing much ill..feeling besides years of worry and
loss of income to my mother and father.
He also sued his
two uncles Jacob Hayward ( who had succeeded his father
JOhn, the yeoman at Beverstone ) and Drinkwater Scott, of
Protester, to recover certain moneys from them as the
executors under their father's will
For years before
Isaac left for Australia., none of his three uncles would
recognise him".
Isaac II, it will be noted, seems to have stirred up things consider
ably.
One would like to hear his version.
His brother John
stopped in England, I find, and fell on very evil days, but the
Hayward clan appear to have stood by him to the last.
He died at
Bath.
Of the Surinam estates my father writes :
"The wind-up came on the emancipation of the slaves by the
Dutch Govt., when it was found difficult to work the
property by free labor.
Our family of nine (the children
of Anna Maria Catherine Wiltens Andree) were offered £500
a piece by some English firm at Paramaribo for all their
rights, & closed with it, but it was eventually whittled
down to £100 or little more".
I felt/
I felt much interested in the Captain, and my father, in a letter
received last week, enclosed some details of him.
These include
two letters written by the Captain from Parimaribo in 1811, also
a copy of his will, dated 1827, which I will show you when - or if
we foregather.
My father got these from Rachel Hayward, granddaughter of Drinkwater Scott, who as the eldest son of John the
Yeoman - he was born in 1769 - doubtless inherited all the family
documents and pedigrees.
He, my father, also delves a little further back into the Hayward
history, to the extent of giving John the Yeoman's parents and
grandparents, from records in Wiltshire church registers.
I used
to harbor a theory that the Haywarde could trace back to Hereward
the Wake, but he doesnt set them past Stuart times.
My father, I am glad to say, is still in good health, & was able to
propose the King's health at the village coronation banquet last
month, or rather in June.
He complains of growing feeble, though.
I think he was born in 1820.
From his records I find his father
Captain Isaac dates from 1778 - his
Joakim was married in 1812.
son, Isaac II, from 1806 or 1807, by my reckoning.
What year did
the latter die?
About 1878?
I thought all this would interest you, and only hope that I haven't
bored you.
Please to give my regards to all your people.
I
should have been over in Melbourne before this - I think I hinted
as much in my last letter but far "Bullfinches".
Did you hear
of the Bullfinch boom, and its disastrous consequences to fool
investors, over your way? We rushed for shares at 60/- here last
Xmas, and now they are down to 13/-.
I can sympathise with
Isaac II, who essayed to retrieve his fortunes in the fifties by
judicious mining speculations.
However,I hope to get over before
very long.
told
you, is a native of Melbourne,
wife,
I
think
I
My
or rather Bendigo, & she hasntt been home since 1905.
The
youngsters are growing up well - they had three months at the coast
last summer.
Our eldest, Adrian, is 9.
i forgot to tell you that my father forwarded a cutting from the
Ballarat "Evening Echo" of 1904, containing an account of an interview with your father and three other Eureka veteranb.
I dont
know where he got it.
With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
C. W. Andree Hayward.
P.S. Your uncles, I think, get their Christian names from the
Beavens.
Isaac II married his second cousin, a Beaven. Wiltshire
is full of Beavens.
I remember many in my youth.
Can you tell
me where your father was born?
P.P.s. How are you on the Lemmers pedigree? Captain Isaac's wife'
father was an Admiral - I am not quite sure at this moment whether
it was in the British Na /y or the Dutch - but my father mentions
that he holds a silver snuff box that the Admiral looted from a
He traces back the Lemmerses
Spaniard
about 1750.
to an old Boston (U.S.A.) family.
Also he has a stock of
genealogical lore about the Johnsons - John Hayward, the yeoman,
and Jacob Hayward, his brother, married, in 1764, two Johnson
sisters, daughters of Isaac Johnson, of Broughton Gifford, Wilts,
on the same day.
That is where the name Isaac comes from in your
family.
C.
W. A. H.