I have been able to discover the following HAWDON information: Matthias HAWDON: Died Newcastle upon Tyne 19 MAR 1789. Organist, instrumentalist and impresario, composer and teacher. Of Newcastle, employed variously at Hull Holy Trinity and Beverley Minster, returned to St Nicholas Newcastle. Honoured by burial beneath the church's organ. Thomas HAWDON: son of the above. Born circa 1765. Died Newcastle 24 NOV 1793 aged 28. Buried from St Nicholas's Newcastle 26 Nov 1793. Organist, instrumentalist, impresario and teacher. Commenced as organist at St Andrew's Newcastle aged 18, moved to Dundee, succeeded his father at Hull Holy Trinity, returned to Newcastle on the death of his father, organist at All Saints Newcastle. On the 25th December 1787 there was a letter printed in the Hull Packet to the parishioners of Holy Trinity from Tho. Hawdon thanking them on his election to the post of organist. His wife, Sarah Webster, predeceased him in March 1790, in Newcastle, leaving one daughter, Sarah HAWDON, born MAR 1790 in Newcastle, baptised Hull Holy Trinity 26 JUN 1790. Sarah HAWDON: I do not know what became of Sarah. She would have been aged 13 when last mentioned in the will of her grandmother dated 1803. I assume she married, from Hull, sometime from about 1807. Much of the above information came from the 2006 book 'Music Making in North East England in the Eighteenth Century', whose author, Roz Southey, was of great assistance. Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Websters" <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:23 PM Subject: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] HAWDON or HAWDEN | Anyone with these surnames? | | If possible, could someone please look up Hull Holy Trinity records for the | following possible events?: | | 1) Marriage: Thomas Hawdon to Sarah (Webster?) about 1788 - 1793 | | 2) Burial: Sarah Hawdon (maiden name Webster) 1788 - 1803, possible | death in childbirth 1790 | | | I am not confident that Hawdon is a common name in East Yorks. It seems to | be very prominent around Newcastle upon Tyne area. | | Sarah Webster was born in 1772 to Robert Webster, curate at Hull Holy | Trinity. Thomas Hawdon was appointed as organist at Hull HT around the late | 1780s. A Sarah Hawdon was baptised at Hull HT 26 JUN 1790. Thomas | returned as organist to All Saints Newcastle where he died in 1793 aged only | 28. In the 1803 will of Robert Webster's widow, Ann Webster, provision is made to | care for the seemingly orphaned granddaughter whose name is written there | (in a transcript copy) as Sarah Hawden. | | The union between a young but estimable church organist and the curate's | daughter is easily imagined. They seem to have been still in Hull in 1790 | for their daughter's baptism. Sarah, however, could have died in Newcastle | rather than Hull if she died between this and the death of her husband in | 1793. | | I will contribute a separate message about local church organists shortly. | | Best wishes | | Bill Webster | | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |