HASLAM OF ECKINGTON

 

Haslam individuals are sometimes found in the Eckington area under the spelling Hasland, especially before the middle of the eighteenth century.

 

William Haslam (father of Daniel) was perhaps baptised at Eckington in 1604, son of Edward and Elizabeth Haslam of Ridgway.[1] However, there was a William, son of Hugh Hasland, baptised at Harthill in 1614/15. Hugh had connections with Eckington[2] so there may have been more than one William Haslam in the area at the time. William Haslam and Alice Syms were married at Eckington on 9 June 1642.

 

Turner was a common surname in the area and the ancestry of Hannah Turner, wife of Samuel Haslam, is uncertain. An “Annah”, daughter of John Turner of Norton, was baptised at Eckington on 30 March 1693. A possible clue to the origin of Hannah (Turner) Haslam is that her son Samuel was apprenticed in 1729 to John Turner of Sload Lane in Eckington, sicklesmith.[3] John may have been a son of George Turner of Sload Lane, or a son of Gervas Turner of the same place.[4] The will of Joshua Booth of Eckington, written in 1767, left “unto Robert Turner Sicklesmith of Ridgeway in the parish of Eckington and County of Derby son of Robert Turner of Ridgeway moor side the House and Garden in Ridgeway where Godfrey Haslam now dwells”.

 

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HASLAM

 

1          WILLIAM HASLAM.

 

Child of William Haslam:

2              i               DANIEL HASLAM (1652-1732); m MARGARET WAINWRIGHT.

 

2          DANIEL HASLAM of Ridgeway, Eckington, Derbyshire, yeoman, was baptised on 16 April 1652 at Eckington[5] and buried on 30 October 1732 at Eckington.[6] He married on 14 November 1678 at Eckington, MARGARET WAINWRIGHT,[7] daughter of Edward Wainwright. She was born on 8 November 1653, baptised on 20 November 1653 at Eckington,[8] and buried on 30 January 1707/08 at Eckington.[9]

 

Children of Daniel and Margaret (Wainwright) Haslam:

i               DANIEL HASLAM, bap 16 Nov 1679, Eckington,[10] bur 24 Jun 1680, Eckington.[11]

ii              ROBERT HASLAM, bap 5 Jun 1681, Eckington,[12] bur 28 Jun 1689, Eckington.[13]

3              iii             SAMUEL HASLAM (1690-1747/48); m HANNAH TURNER.

 

3          SAMUEL HASLAM of Ridgeway, Eckington, husbandman, was baptised on 5 October 1690 at Eckington[14] and buried on 27 January 1747/48 at Eckington.[15] He married on 21 October 1712 at Eckington, HANNAH TURNER.[16]

 

Children of Samuel and Hannah (Turner) Haslam:

4              i               GODFREY HASLAM (1713/14-1785); m PHEBE BIRD.

ii             SAMUEL HASLAM, bap 26 Apr 1716, Eckington,[17] bur 29 Mar 1744, Eckington.[18]

iii            HANNAH HASLAM, bap 12 Apr 1719, Eckington,[19] bur 26 Aug 1723, Eckington.[20]

iv            JOHN HASLAM, bap 13 Feb 1722/23, Eckington.[21]

v              ESTHER HASLAM, bap 31 Oct 1725, Eckington,[22] bur 3 Oct 1781, Killamarsh;[23] m(1) 26 Oct 1747, Eckington, THOMAS BIRD;[24] m(2) 19 Feb 1765, Eckington, THOMAS DURHAM.[25]

 

4          GODFREY HASLAM of Ridgeway, Eckington, sicklesmith, was baptised on 21 January 1713/14 at Eckington[26] and buried on 1 February 1785 at Eckington.[27] He married ca 6 August 1738, PHEBE BIRD,[28] daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wright) Bird (see here). Phebe was baptised on 27 June 1720 at Eckington and buried on 4 July 1786 at Eckington.

 

Children of Godfrey and Phebe (Bird) Haslam:

i               MARY HASLAM, bap 10 Sep 1740, Eckington,[29] buried on 7 Oct 1810, Eckington;[30] m 26 Dec 1760, Eckington, JOHN CROFTS[31] (see here).

ii             JOHN HASLAM, bap 2 Dec 1742, Eckington,[32] bur 19 Mar 1765, Eckington.[33]

iii            GODFREY HASLAM of Ridgeway, Eckington, sicklesmith, bap 15 Mar 1744/45, Eckington,[34] bur 14 May 1790, Eckington;[35] m 17 Apr 1766, Eckington, CHRISTIAN FRICKNALL.[36]

iv            REBECCA HASLAM, bap 29 Jun 1747, Eckington.[37]

v              THOMAS HASLAM, bap 9 Jun 1750, Eckington.[38]

vi            PHEBE HASLAM, bap 6 Nov 1752, Eckington,[39] bur 29 Jul 1774, Eckington.[40]

vii           SAMUEL HASLAM, bap 30 Jun 1755, Eckington,[41] bur 13 Apr 1756, Eckington.[42]

viii          HANNAH HASLAM, bap 9 Feb 1758, Eckington,[43] bur 24 May 1772, Eckington.[44]

ix            JOSEPH HASLAM of Ridgeway, Eckington, sicklesmith, bap 28 Mar 1762, Eckington,[45] bur 3 Dec 1837, Eckington;[46] m 5 Apr 1790, Sheffield, ANN WORSLEY.[47]


[1] Eckington parish registers; H.J.H. Garratt, ed., Eckington – The Court Rolls, vol. 4 (South Crosland, 2000), 29, 52, 69.

[2] Hugh was a son of Nicholas Hasland of Harthill. See the catalogue entries for University of Leeds, Special Collections, DD5/3/384a and DD5/3/384b, and Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, ed. John W. Clay, 4 vols (London, 1894-96), 3:1031. The burial of Hugh Hasland on 7 Jan 1655/56 is recorded in the Eckington parish registers.

[3] Robert Eadon Leader, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, 2 vols (Sheffield, 1905-06), 2:237.

[4] Robert Eadon Leader, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, 2 vols (Sheffield, 1905-06), 2:376.

[5] Eckington parish registers.

[6] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[7] Eckington parish registers.

[8] Eckington parish registers.

[9] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[10] Eckington parish registers.

[11] Eckington bishop's transcripts.

[12] Eckington parish registers.

[13] Eckington parish registers.

[14] Eckington parish registers; Eckington bishop’s transcripts. The identity of Samuel Haslam, father of Godfrey, as the son of Daniel Haslam, is confirmed by a note on a loose sheet inserted in the Eckington court rolls for 1678. It is in English rather than the usual Latin of the court records. It states “Godfrey Haslam of Ridgeway, sicklesmith, elder son and heir of Samuel Haslam late of Ridgeway, deceased, husbandman, who was [th]e only son and heir of Daniel Haslam formerly of [th]e same place, yeoman, deceased, claims 2 cottages at Ridgeway ... late in [th]e occupation of said Samuel Haslam afterwards of his widow and now in [th]e ... occupation of Jno. Haslam and Easter Bird”: H.J.H. Garratt, ed., Eckington – The Court Rolls, vol. 4 (South Crosland, 2000), 157. I thank Sue Turner for notifying me of this entry. It appears to have been written after the death of Samuel Haslam (1747/48) and probably after the death of his widow (likely 1759 or 1761) but before the marriage of Esther (Haslam) Bird to Thomas Durham in 1765.

[15] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[16] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). She was probably the Hannah Haslam, widow, buried at Eckington on 6 Feb 1759. However, there was also a Hannah Haslam buried there on 29 Dec 1761.

[17] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[18] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[19] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[20] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[21] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). He may be the John Haslam who married Mary White at Eckington on 29 Apr 1746.

[22] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[23] Killamarsh parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[24] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[25] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[26] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[27] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[28] Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry Marriage Allegations and Bonds, 1636-1893 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). They were to marry at Eckington, but the marriage does not appear in the parish registers there. Godfrey Haslam had been apprenticed to Thomas Bird (father of Phebe): see Robert Eadon Leader, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, 2 vols (Sheffield, 1905-06), 2:237.

[29] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[30] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[31] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). One of the witnesses was John Bird. There is a marriage allegation of 1757 for a Septimus Worstenholme to marry a Mary Haslam, both of Eckington, but Mary is described therein as “aged twenty four years & upwards” so would not be the daughter of Godfrey and Phebe (Bird) Haslam.

[32] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[33] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[34] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[35] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[36] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[37] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). A Rebecca Haslam married James Vennable on 29 Sep 1794 at Chesterfield.

[38] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). He was probably the Thomas, son of Godfrey Haslam, who was buried at Eckington on 27 Mar 1771, although that could be a son of Godfrey and Christian (Fricknall) Haslam.

[39] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[40] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The burial entry gives her parents as “Saml & Phœbe Haslam” but the father’s name seems to be a mistake as no other trace has been found of such a couple.

[41] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[42] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[43] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[44] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[45] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[46] Eckington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[47] Sheffield parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). They had children baptised at Eckington.