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This section focuses on the Hayes family of Leigh, Lancashire, England, some of whom were ancestors of William (Bill) Jackson (1879-1944) and Sarah Wilkinson Jackson (1879-1942). Bill and Sarah were both born in Lancashire. Bill moved to America in 1923, followed by Sarah and her children in 1924. Bill Jackson's family originated in Cumberland, England, and was joined through marriage to the Cumberland family of Francis James (1793-1865). Bill and Sarah were among only a few in their families to go to America. Details of the lives of Bill and Sarah Jackson and their descendants are provided in another section of this account. This section focuses on the Hayes ancestors in England and the confluence of events that led them to travel to America. This presentation includes:
Ellis Hayes (1729-1760), in Lowton, Lancashire
John Hayes (1759-1836) and Ann Houghton Hayes Ellis Hayes (1784-1869) and Ellen Bent Hayes Hayes Family Travel to America Genealogical Charts on these Families OTHER LINKS: The Jackson Family of Cumberland The Family of William and Sarah Jackson in America The Family of Francis James of Cumberland The Wilkinson Family of Leigh, Lancashire The Casson Family of Ulpha, Cumberland The Boyers of Easton Neil Boyer's Home Page The Family of Peers Hayes (1828-1909) of Lancashire One important focal point for the family of Annie Jackson Boyer in America was the family of Peers Hayes, born April 12, 1828, and Anne Hatton. At least three of the ten children of Peers or their offspring went to live in the United States, and all stayed in close touch with each other. When Anna Jackson Boyer's father, Bill Jackson, took the courageous decision in 1923, at the age of 44, to change job and homeland, he went first to Rhode Island to stay with the family of his wife's mother's sister, a branch of the Hayes family. And it is from descendants of the Hayes and Wilkinson families that we know the most about the Jacksons! The discussion here focuses
first on the known ancestors of Peers Hayes and then on his ten children:
Ellis Hayes of Lowton.
The most remote of the
Hayes ancestors
that have been traced is Ellis Hayes
of Lowton, in Lancashire. Ellis, who lived to be only 31,
apparently was married twice. He was first married on February 19,
1750, to Martha
Astley
of
Golborne, at St. Luke's church in Lowton. Ellis was born in 1729, and it
is believed that Martha was born about 1730. After Martha
died in 1756, there is indication that Ellis was married to a
woman
named Phoebe Hayes, although
there is no record of the marriage. Phoebe appears to have been the
mother of two of the children of Ellis. Records showed that
Ellis was buried on December 26, 1760, when he was 31. See a genealogical
chart on the Hayes family.
Note that many of the descendants
of Ellis Hayes were also named "Ellis." (Ellis Hayes is the most distant Hayes ancestor identified in
this report,
the great-great-great-great grandfather of John Jackson and Anna Jackson Boyer.)
Hayes family researcher Keith Hayes, who lived in Leigh in 2009, discovered that Martha Ellis died on November 30, 1756, when she must have been about 26. Records showed these children of Ellis Hayes: Catharine Hayes,
shown in records as a daughter of Ellis Hayes, was buried on January
30, 1756, ten months before her mother died. No birth or baptism
record for her has been found, but she would have been born no later
than April or May 1755. Presumably, Catharine
was an infant, or at least quite young, when she died. It is not
known if Martha had any
other children. John Hayes was born on May 11, 1759, suggesting that Ellis Hayes had remarried after Martha's death in 1756. (See more below.) Ellis Hayes was born on August 7, 1761, and baptised on August 30, 1761, at St. Luke's in Lowton. His mother's name was shown as Phoebe Hayes, suggesting that she was the second wife of Ellis. She may also have been the mother of John Hayes. A record in Winwick Church showed that Ellis Hayes, the father, died and was buried on December 26, 1760, at the age of 31, about eight months prior to the birth of his son Ellis on August 7, 1761. Records showed that Ellis the son died soon afterward, and he was buried on December 21, 1761, only four months after his birth. Both the baptism record and the burial record showed that his mother was named Phoebe. Phoebe Hayes, apparently the second wife of Ellis Hayes, was remarried on October 7, 1765, at Winwick Church, to Thomas Dickinson. It may be assumed that Phoebe and Thomas raised John Hayes, who had been born in 1759. Phoebe Dickinson was buried on August 13, 1818, at Winwick Church. The burial record said she was 82, which would indicate her birth in 1736 or 1737. John Hayes (1759-1836). Research shows that Ellis had a son, John Hayes, who was born on May 11, 1759, and baptised on May 25, 1759, both events in Lowton. Ellis's wife, Martha, had died in 1756, and Ellis apparently had remarried. No record has been found showing the name of John's mother, but another Hayes child, also named Ellis, was born on August 7, 1761, to Phoebe Hayes. One might presume that Phoebe was also John's mother. John Hayes was married in 1780, in Winwick, St. Oswald's, to Ann Houghton, who was born about 1760. John died in 1836, and Ann died in 1840. (It is possible that Ellis and Martha Hayes had other children, but none has been verified in records.) John and Ann Hayes
had seven children: Ellen
Hayes, born
in 1782; Ellis Hayes,
1784 (see below); John Hayes,
1786; Ann Hayes,
1792; James
Hayes, 1794; a second James
Hayes, 1800; and Mary
Hayes, 1801.
The first James Hayes died in 1795, and his parents gave the
name
James to the next-born as well. All the children were born in Lowton.
Ellis Hayes, the second child of John and Ann Hayes, was born in 1784 and baptised on January 1, 1785, at Leigh Parish Church. His wife, Ellen Bent, was born in Kenyon in late 1788 or early 1789, the daughter of Henry and Ellen Bent. She was baptised on February 14, 1789, also at Leigh Parish. Ellis and Ellen were married at Wigan Parish Church on February 9, 1807. Ellis appears in the 1861 census, age 78, identified as a former silk weaver. His wife, age 76, is also identified as a former silk weaver. They lived at 9 Lowton Common, Lancashire, on the same street as two other Hayes families, their sons Samuel Hayes and Peers Hayes. Ellis died in 1869 and Ellen Bent Hayes in 1864. Children
of Ellis and Ellen Bent Hayes. Most of the
information below on the Ellis Hayes family focuses on Samuel and
Peers, but some information has been developed on nine
children:
1. Henry Hayes,
was baptised on May 30, 1807, at Leigh Parish Church, and thus probably
was born during the month of May 1807. That would have been
three
months after Ellis and Ellen were married.
Henry died on
February 2, 1881, in Lowton. He and his wife Alice had no
children.
2. William Hayes was born in 1810 and died in 1901 at the age of 91. He married Margaret Prescott in Winwick Church on New Year's Day, 1833, the same day that his brother John Hayes married Ann Morris. Margaret died in 1854 at the age of 42, and in 1859, William married Ellen Westwell. She had been born about 1819 and died in 1907. William did not have children with either wife. 3. John Hayes was born on May 30, 1813, and died in 1864 at the age of 50. On January 1, 1833, he married Ann Morris, with whom he had at least six children. 4. Ellis Hayes was born on September 18, 1815, and died in 1886. 5. Hannah Hayes (spelled "Heyes" in one record) was born in 1818 in Lowton and baptised on August 22, 1818, at Leigh Parish Church. She died on August 1, 1861, in Lowton. On June 2, 1844, in Winwick Warrington, Hannah married Henry Morris, who had been born in 1818 in Lowton. He was a cotton weaver, and Hannah was a silk hand loom weaver. Their son William Morris and his son Henry Morris (1876-1958) both worked in the chemical industry in Widnes. Hannah's husband, Henry Morris, died on March 6, 1855, in Atherton, Lancashire. Henry and Hannah Morris had three children: Samuel Morris, born in 1846, William Morris (1847-1899), and Elizabeth Morris, born in 1850. Josephine Morris O'Neill, a descendant of Hannah and Henry Morris and their son William, provided information on this section. 6.
Samuel Hayes,
the sixth child of Ellis and Ellen Bent
Hays, was baptised on July 28, 1821, at Leigh Parish
Church. He first married
Esther Morris
of Lowton on December 13, 1847, at Lowton, St. Luke's
Church. She had been born in 1825, but she died in 1848, not long after
their wedding. Prior to
their marriage, Samuel and Esther had a daughter, who was known
initially as Ellen Morris
and later as Ellen M.
Hayes. Ellen was born
August 28, 1844, and baptised on March 10, 1845, at Lowton, St.
Luke's. The 1861 census made clear that "Ellen M.
Hayes"
lived with the family.
On April 21, 1851,
after
Esther died, Samuel married Mary
Ann Lowe at Tyldesley Top Chapel. Mary Ann had been born
in 1831. They had five
children: Mary E. Hayes,
born in 1853; Ellis Lowe
Hays, 1855; Thomas
Hayes, 1859 (died in 1863); Esther Hayes, 1863;
and Harriet Hayes,
1866. The 1861 census showed that Samuel and his family lived
at 9
Lowton Common, in
Lowton, Lancashire, near his parents, Ellis Hayes, 78, and
Ellen
Hayes, 76, who were at 7 Lowton Common.
Samuel,
38, born in Lowton, and his wife, Mary Ann Hayes, 28, born in
Liverpool, were both described as silk weavers. Samuel's son
Ellis, named after his
grandfather and his great-great-grandfather, was listed in the census
as a male named "Ethel," but this was clearly a bad reading of the
census-taker's writing. In the 1861 census, the Samuel Hayes family
included Samuel, 40; wife Mary Ann, 30; Ellen M. Hayes, 16 (daughter of
Samuel's first wife), a silk weaver; Mary E., 7; Ellis, 5; and Thomas
Hayes, 2. Samuel died on October 19, 1898, at the age of 77.
Much
of the information in this report on the early generations of the Hayes
family was developed by Keith Hayes, born in 1961, a descendant of
Samuel and Mary
Ann Hayes. Keith's
father was Thomas Hayes (1928-1993), his grandfather was Ellis Lowe
Hayes (1889-1962), and his great-grandfather was Ellis Lowe Hayes
(1855-1911). In 2009, Keith Hayes lived in
Leigh and worked for Lloyds Banking Group.
7. Ellen Hayes
was born in 1824 and died in 1903. She married Edward Houghton,
who
was born in 1821. They had at least 10 children. In a family three-way
ceremony at Lowton St. Luke's church on May 22, 1853, Ellen Hayes's
daughter Ellen Houghton
was baptised along with another Ellen
Hayes, the daughter of Peers
Hayes, and Sarah Hatton,
the daughter of Charles Hatton, the brother of Anne Hatton Hayes. They
were the only children baptised that day.
8. Peers Hayes,
the eighth child of Ellis and Ellen Bent Hayes, was born on April 12,
1828, and baptised on July 7, 1828, in Leigh Parish Church.
He
married
Ellen Prescott,
also of Lowton,
on August 16, 1847, at St. Luke's Church in Lowton. Ellen had been born
about 1828, and she died on February 6, 1851. They had one
child, Margaret Hayes,
born
on November 7, 1847.
In 1851, after Ellen's death, Peers married Anne Hatton, of Kenyon, Lancashire. Anne had been born on August 3, 1826, in Kenyon, Lancashire, the daughter of Charles and Ellen Hatton, and they had nine children. Anne died on August 9, 1908 at the age of 82. The 1861 census showed that Peers and Anne Hayes lived at 6 Lowton Common, in Lowton, a part of St. Mary’s Parish, Lancashire. Peers was 32, born in Lowton in 1828. Lowton Common seems have been been a family street. On the same street, at 9 Lowton Common, was the family of Samuel Hayes, 38, brother of Peers, and his wife Mary Ann Hayes, 28. In addition, at 7 Lowton Common, were the parents of Peers and Samuel, Ellis Hayes, 78, and his wife Ellen Hayes, 76. Many of the Hayes family members in early years seem to have been involved in the silk business. Parents Ellis and Ellen Hayes were each identified in 1861 as “formerly silk weaver.” Their son Samuel and his wife Mary Ann Hayes were also identified as silk weavers, as was their daughter Ellen M. Hayes, 16. Other children were Mary E. Hayes, 7, born in Lowton in 1854, Ellis L. Hayes, 5, born in Lowton in 1856 (apparently named for his grandfather), and Thomas Hayes, 2, born in Lowton in 1859. Peers Hayes in the 1861 census is identified as a silk weaver, 33, as is his wife Anne Hayes, 34. Children present in the house were Margaret Hayes, 13, born in Lowton in 1848, the daughter of first wife Ellen Hayes (identified as a “back seater in cotton mill”); Ellen Hayes, 8, born in Lowton in 1853; Elizabeth Hayes, 6, born in Lowton in 1855; Peers Hayes, 4, born in Lowton in 1857; and Charles Hayes, 1, born in Lowton in 1860. In the 1871 census, the family lived at 2 Mather Lane in Lowton. (The name of Peers, 42, is spelled “Piers” in one account.) Daughter Martha Hayes was not included since she had died in 1868, the year of her birth. Father Peers and all other children are shown in the census as having been born in Lowton. Only the mother, Anne Hatton Hayes, 44 at the time, was born elsewhere. In the 1891 census, twenty years later, the only people shown are William and his parents, at Thornbush Farm in Lowton. The Hayes house was still standing in 2009, although the surrounding property had largely been converted into a housing estate. Peers Hayes died on September 23, 1909, at the age of 81, and was buried at St. Luke's Church, along with both of his wives -- Ellen Prescott Hayes and Anne Hatton Hayes -- as well as two of his children, Martha and Henry. The tombstone is inscribed "Thy will be done."
The Peers Hayes Family. The roots of the connection to the Jackson family are three
children
of Peers and Anne Hatton Hayes ‑‑ Ellen
Hayes, Hannah
Hayes and Elizabeth
Hayes.
Hannah and Elizabeth both moved to America; Ellen married John
Wilkinson, and it was her daughter Sarah who went to America with Bill
Jackson.
Altogether, Peers and Anne Hatton Hayes had ten children: Most dates were supplied by a descendant of Elizabeth. Details on each of the children are provided below.
1. Margaret Hayes, born November 7, 1847, in Lowton,
Lancashire (daughter of first wife, Ellen)
2. Ellen Hayes Wilkinson, born March 17, 1853, in Lowton, died August 7, 1943, in Leigh 3. Elizabeth Hayes Sharrock, born March 26, 1855, in Lowton, died April 29, 1942, in Rhode Island 4. Peers Hayes, born December 5, 1856, in Lowton 5. Charles Hayes, born August 6, 1859, in Lowton 6. Hannah Hayes Pemberton, born October 29, 1861, in Lowton, died April 7, 1955, in Rhode Island 7. Henry Hayes, born November 10, 1863, in Lowton, died August 23, 1874, in Lowton 8. Mary Hayes Prescott, born December 27, 1865, in Lowton 9. Martha Hayes, born March 30, 1868, died June 6, 1868 10. William Ellis Hayes, born June 5, 1869, in Lowton The members of
the family of Peers Hayes were these. All were born
in Lowton.
1.
Margaret Hayes,
born on November 7, 1847, was the child of the Peers and his first
wife, Ellen Prescott. Margaret was baptised at At. Luke's Church on May
17, 1855, the same day as her sister Elizabeth was baptised. All the
others in the family were children of Peers' second wife,
Anne Hatton.
2. Ellen (also called Helen) Hayes was born in March 17, 1853. She married John Wilkinson and they had five children. She died on August 7, 1943, in Leigh. More details are below. 3. Elizabeth Hayes, born on March 26, 1855, and baptised on May 17, 1855, the same day as her sister Margaret. Elizabeth married James Sharrock and they moved to America. Elizabeth died on April 29, 1942, in Rhode Island. They had two children. More details are below. 4. Peers Hayes was born on December 5, 1856, and baptised on May 1, 1857, at St. Luke's Church. He married Matilda Whiteley in 1879. She died on April 29, 1914, and was buried in Leigh Cemetery. They had four sons: Frank Hayes, born in 1881; Watson, 1882; Harold, 1887; and Henry, 1890. Peers, who was named for his father, wrote a poignant poem of regret when his sister Hannah sailed for America. Peers ran a hardware shop, and Marian Wilkinson Magilton remembered going to the shop to get paraffin as a small child. The sons were remembered to have opened the Winter Garden cinema and dance hall in Southport. It is also remembered, with a hint of 
family scandal, that the sons once visited the home of Elizabeth Hayes
Sharrock and brought along a roulette
wheel. It was recalled
that
they eventually went bankrupt.5. Charles Hayes was born on August 6, 1859, and baptised on October 16, 1859, at St. Luke's Church. He was one of the Hayes family members who stayed behind in England. Charles was a supervisor of a canal lock, and he and his wife lived in a house at the lock. The 1891 census showed them at 5 Ivy House, St. Helens Road, Leigh, very close to the canal, but in 1901 the census showed them at 17 Derwent Street, near Pennington Church. Charles married Annie Simister in 1883, and they had a daughter, Ethel Hayes, born about 1888. She apparently had died by the time of the 1901 census. A son, Edmond Hayes, was born about 1894 (he was 7 on the 1901 census). Charles, Annie and Edmond were photographed in front of the lock house (see photo at right). 6. Hannah Hayes, born October 29, 1861, was baptised on February 9, 1862, at St. Mary's Church. She was the first of the family members to move to America. She married Levi Pemberton, and they had ten children. Hannah died on April 7, 1955, in Rhode Island. More details on her are below. 7. Henry Hayes was born on November 10, 1863, and baptised on January 31, 1864, at St. Mary's Church. He died on August 23, 1874, at the age of 10. 8. Mary Hayes was born on December 27, 1865, and baptised on February 25, 1866, at St. Mary's Church. She married John Prescott, and they had five children, including Beatrice Prescott, who married William Sharp, and Leah, Arthur, John and James Prescott. 9. Martha Hayes was born on March 30, 1868, and baptised at St. Mary's Church on May 24, 1868. She died three months later, on June 6, 1868. 10. William Ellis Hayes was born on June 5, 1869, and baptised on August 1, 1869, at St. Mary's Church. 9. Thomas Hayes,
the last-known child of Ellis and Ellen Bent Hayes, was born in 1831 in
Lowton and baptised in Leigh on April 2, 1831. In 1856, he married Mary
Rowland, born about 1828, and they had at least eight
children.
Travel to America Ellen Hayes, daughter of Peers and Ann Hatton Hayes, was born in Lowton, Lancashire, on March 17, 1853, and baptised at Lowton St. Luke's church on May 22, 1853. She married John Wilkinson, an engineer with the Pennington Mill, a large cotton mill in Leigh, Lancashire. John had been born at Pennington on December 25, 1856, the son of William Wilkinson and his wife Martha Harrison.
Ellen Hayes and John Wilkinson lived at 5 Neild Street in Leigh, next to the Pennington Mill, and they had five children. The second child was Sarah Ann Wilkinson, who married William Jackson. Apparently influenced by Hannah and Elizabeth Hayes, sisters of Ellen, Sarah and Bill decided to move to America to create a new life, Bill in 1923, Sarah and children in 1924, and Ellen never saw them again. Ellen Hayes Wilkinson remained behind in Leigh, dying on August 7, 1943, actually outliving her daughter Sarah. Hannah Hayes. Apparently, the first of the Peers Hayes family to go to America was Hannah, who was born in Lowton, England, on October 29, 1861. The 1871 census shows her, at 9 years old, living with her family at 2 Mather Lane in Lowton. The 1881 census shows her, age 19, living in Leigh, with her sister Ellen Hayes Wilkinson and working at the cotton mill. She sailed on May 10, 1887, at the age of 25, and on that day, her brother Peers Hayes published a long poem “to his most Affectionate Sister Hannah, on her leaving home for the U.S.A.” Twenty days later, on May 30, she was married at St. James Episcopal Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her husband was Levi Pemberton, who had been born in England on January 9, 1864. According to an award from Pennington Church, Levi was still in England in January 1874. It is not known if Levi and Hannah traveled to America together or if he preceded her. In any event, it is clear that the purpose of Hannah's trip was to marry Levi. Levi died on May 14, 1940, at the age of 76, and Hannah died on April 7, 1955, at the age of 93.
Hannah and Levi Pemberton had two children, both of whom remained close to the Hayes-Wilkinson-Jackson-Boyer families. The first child was Albert Pemberton, born on April 20, 1888, probably in New Bedford. Like his mother, Albert also was married at St. James Parsonage. On May 28, 1910, at the age of 22, he married Ellen Elizabeth Annie Mitchell, just turned 20, born on May 9, 1890. Albert died September 14, 1973, at the age of 85. "Annie" died in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on December 5, 1969, at the age of 79. Albert and Annie Pemberton had 10 children (of whom only three were living in 1985): 1.
Gladys Elizabeth Pemberton, born November 19, 1910, who died March 7,
1974
2. Dorothy Helene Pemberton, born October 20, 1911, who died August 7, 1958 3. Mildred Merriel Pemberton Pierce, born December 14, 1912. She died in 2004. 4. Edna Isabell Pemberton, born March 16, 1914, who died April 25, 1962 5. Albert Pemberton, Jr., born July 20, 1916, who died November 21, 1977 6. Elsie May Pemberton, born August 22, 1917, who died January 27, 1940 7. Irene Millicent Pemberton, born March 9, 1919, who died July 19, 1985 8. Alice Marjory Pemberton, born July 8, 1921, who died June 7, 1944 9. Robert Mitchell Pemberton, born April 10, 1923, who died March 23, 1980 10. John Edwin Pemberton, born July 12, 1924. John lived in Mattapoisett. He died in 1991. The second child of Hannah and Levi Pemberton was Florence Pemberton, who, like her brother, was born in the United States. She married James Metcalf, and they had one son, Sheldon Hayes Metcalf. Florence lived all her life in the New Bedford area, and died at a nursing home there in May 1986, at the age of 95. She was buried at Acushnet Cemetery. Her son Sheldon, also of New Bedford, survived her. Elizabeth Hayes, born in Lowton on March 26, 1855, was six years older than her sister Hannah. She was confirmed in 1871, at age 16, in the Parish of St. Mary, in Lowton. In the 1881 census, she is shown living with her sisters Hannah Hayes and Ellen Hayes Wilkinson on Neild Street in Leigh and working as a cotton weaver at the Pennington cotton mill. Elizabeth was married in England to James Sharrock, who had been born in 1860. James died in England on December 4, 1920, at the age of 60, and six months later, on June 1, 1921, at the age of 66, Elizabeth Hayes Sharrock went to America; she arrived about 35 years after Hannah. Elizabeth Hayes Sharrock lived to be 87, dying on April 29, 1942. Elizabeth and James Sharrock had two children: Albert G. Sharrock, born in England on November 1, 1890, and Elizabeth Ann Sharrock, born in England on February 3, 1893. 1.
Albert G. Sharrock, the brother
of Elizabeth Sharrock Hodgson, went to America in 1913 or
1914.
Like his sister, he at first went to live with his aunt Hannah Hayes
Pemberton. It was through her that he met Gertrude
(Gertie)
Garrapt Mort, who had been born on June 9, 1878.
The two were
married in Apponang, Rhode Island, on March 5, 1914; she was 35, and he
was 23. Gertrude had had two children by a previous marriage
‑‑
Edith E. Mort, born on August 2, 1903, and still living in 1985, and
Gertrude P. Mort, born on June 28, 1904, who died on November 17, 1965,
at the age of 61. But Auntie Gertie and Uncle Albert, as they
were known, also had two children of their own: Alice Mary Sharrock
was
born on December 22, 1915. She married Harold Kaye, and they lived in
Wakefield and later Lincoln, Massachusetts. She died in Concord on May
15, 2009. Her sister Marian
Elizabeth Sharrock was born on July
14, 1921. Both were born in East Freetown. For a time, Albert
worked as a driver, and Gertie as a domestic, for a Howland
family. Later, Albert and Gertie ran a grocery store and post
office for many years. In 1955, they turned it over to Albert
Foster, the husband of Gertie's granddaughter, and they moved to Cape
Cod. Gertie Sharrock died on June 18, 1958, at the age of
80. Albert lived to October 11, 1975, when he died at the age
of
84.
It is reported that there was considerable confusion surrounding the two Alberts who were children of the Hayes sisters. Not only did these cousins have the same first name, but they lived in the same area, were about the same age (Albert Pemberton was born in 1888, Albert Sharrock in 1890), both reportedly were tall, and they were similar in appearance. And both had long lives, Albert Sharrock dying at the age of 84, Albert Pemberton at 85. Some relatives never did get them straight. 2. Elizabeth Ann Sharrock, who had served as a nurse in in the Ambulance Brigade during World War I, was married at the age of 28 to Joseph Hodgson, who had been a soldier in the War. They were married in England on March 28, 1921. Joseph had been born in England on June 2, 1896, and he was 24 at the time of their marriage. It was just two months after her marriage, and six months after the death of her father, that Elizabeth Sharrock Hodgson went to America with her new husband and her mother, Elizabeth Hayes Sharrock.
Joe was the only one of six children in his family to move to America. His parents, Jonathan Hodgson (1871‑1941) and Mary Ann Garstary Hodgson (1872‑1950), spent all of their lives in England. The other five children were John Hodgson (1894‑1961), Eleanor (born in 1900), Annie (1903‑1986), Bessie (1905), who celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary on October 24, 1986, and Colin Hodgson (1910). John Hodgson's two daughters both worked for the school system: Mary Hodgson married Chris Robinson and had a daughter, who in 1986 was married and working as a nurse. Joan Hodgson married Ray Starkie, who died in 1988 at home in Leigh at the age of 62. Their daughter Beryl Starkie married Stuart Whitton and they had two sons, Antony Whitton and Mark Whitton. Joan and Ray also had a son, Norman Starkie. Elizabeth and Joe Hodgson, and Elizabeth's mother, lived first with Elizabeth Sharrock's sister, Hannah Hayes Pemberton, in East Freetown, Massachusetts. Later they moved to New Bedford, then to Asonet. Joe worked in a mill, and Elizabeth worked as a housekeeper for a Mrs. Kidder. Finally, they settled in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Like Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Hayes Sharrock, Elizabeth and Joe Hodgson also had long lives. Joe died on March 7, 1969, at the age of 72, and Elizabeth died on April 15, 1973, at the age of 80, both in Rhode Island.
Children
of Elizabeth and Joe
Hodgson. Elizabeth and Joe lived near Pawtucket,
Rhode Island,
and had two daughters, about the same age of Bill Jackson's son Jack,
and later Hilda and Mildred introduced Jack to their childhood friend
Dee Rostron, and Jack and Dee were later married.
a.
Hilda Hodgson, born in New
Bedford on August 7, 1922, was a nurse. She married Charles
Bejma
on June 3, 1950, and they had one daughter, Bethany Bejma.
Hilda
died of cancer on April 12, 1974, at the age of 51. Charlie
died
on December 11, 2002, at the age of 85. Bethany graduated
from
high school two months after her mother's death. She worked first for
the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank, then at Memorial Hospital as a
technician. On June 5, 1976, she married Mark Force, at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, in Pawtucket. Her cousin Lynn
Jackson was maid of honor. As of 1985, Bethany and Mark had
three
children: Seth Charles
Force, born February 11, 1979; Evan Mark Force,
born September 22, 1981; and Sarah
Elizabeth Force, born July 29, 1984.
b.
Mildred Hodgson, born on
January 4, 1925, married Charles
Cyganoski on March 31, 1951.
The
newlyweds (maintaining the family
connections) visited the Boyers in
Easton in the course of their honeymoon. Charlie, who had
been
born on May 20, 1923, had joined the Army in 1942 and served in China,
Burma and India with the 10th and 14th Air Force units. He
was a
sergeant when he was discharged in 1945. He died of cancer on
July 12, 1996. (Mildred
is the source of much of the
information
in this section on the Hayes and Wilkinson families.)
They
had
two children (photo at
right): -- Charles Joseph Cyganoski, Jr.
(Joseph) was born on March 12, 1953, in Pawtucket. Joe
graduated
from high school in 1971 and went to college for six years to become a
registered pharmacist. In 1985, he was working for the CVS
chain
drug stores. He married Deborah
Catrone, born March 16, 1955, at
the Woodbury Church in Warwick, Rhode Island, on January 10, 1981, and
they had a daughter, Elizabeth
Ann Cyganoski, on March 7, 1984.
-- Bruce E. Cyganoski,
the second
child of Mildred and Charles, was born on December 4, 1955.
He
graduated from high school in 1974. At first he worked in a
retail store; in 1985 he was working for the Day‑0‑Light Company, a
manufacturer of fluorescent lights in Warwick, and was living with his
parents.
LINKS: The Jackson Family of Cumberland The Family of William and Sarah Jackson The Family of Francis James of Cumberland The Wilkinson Family of Leigh, Lancashire The Casson Family of Ulpha, Cumberland Genealogical Charts for the Jackson, Wilkinson, James and Hayes Families The Boyers of Easton Neil Boyer's Home Page Back to the Top of this Page |
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