WELCOME TO THE HARVEY AND HAYWARD FAMILY HISTORY SITE
This site has been compiled by Joan Harvey and covers several 000s of people. The site is new, so more information and detail will be included in coming weeks and months, even years!
My name is Joan Harvey, nee Hayward, and I live with my husband David in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, or pre-1974 it was called Northumberland. I have been researching family histories of David and myself since the mid 1990s.
Over the years I have written biographies of family members, transcribed wills and testaments, found newspaper articles, and even written about family members in magazines and journals. Detailed information on both family branches and many individual histories will be included as I add to the site. I am happy to share this information with any genuinely interested party and certainly relatives, and in turn I hope you will contact me and share information that you may have.
The site is divided into two families: all David’s side- the all-HARVEY family and all my side - the all-HAYWARD family. Both names subdivide into what are a large number of surnames, including between us almost every single common surname possible! There is a name index further below to take you directly to individual surnames.
For starting details of each of the two main branches- click for all-Harvey family. ; all-Hayward family
Please be assured that I dont make assumptions- when I research, nothing is included unless verifiable through usually several sources. I have seen too many errors perpetuated on family history websites [even affecting our own families] to be caught up in that mess!
Please do get in touch. I can be found on: haywardjoan38@gmail.com, or on Joan.harvey@ncl.ac.uk.
The origins of my research: It started in 1995, after my father died and I realised how little I knew about his childhood and early life. Then a friend with a North-Eastern surname but from Canada arrived, and took us up to Weardale looking for his Hedley and Hodgson ancestors. I thought… I can do that! My Phd was by then recently completed, and David wanted to follow in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps and learn to sail, so he enrolled at South Shields Marine Tech, and I enrolled on the FH certificate in Newcastle University’s Continuing Education department. It was run by the Archivist for Northumberland, and 18 months later, after 6 long essays and a 10,000 word project, I was lucky enough to gain a distinction. Every week I would go with my mother to the local Mormon ‘stake’ in Sunderland where I could order microfilms of parish records, censuses etc for us to read [not on the web then!]. It was actually very useful to check the census page by page- for example that is how I found my grandmother as a child living 6 doors away from her grandparents in Bolton.
HARVEY family Surname Index:
The main names are below- if you know of others you think are related, get in touch as the full list is a whole lot longer! Some names have multiple spelling variants, for example HARVEY or HARVIE are both in this family but only one is added here to represent them. Other names with known variantsso far include COATES, BARNETT, ROWLEY, VIVIAN, ROBERTON, etc.. If the name is in highlighted, click for further material. More names will be added in due course.
ARUNDELL. ASHBURNHAM. AUCHINCLASS. BACKHOUSE. BAKER. BALDWIN. BARCLAY. BARNETT. BEATSON. BEAUMONT. BLOCK. BOHUN. BOURCHIER. BRAITHWAITE. BROWN. BUTLER. BUXTON. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY CHERRINGTON. COATES. CORDEAUX. COTGRAVE. COURTENAY. CREWDSON. CROWLEY. DARLING. DAVEY. DIXON. DODGSON. FIDOE. FLEMING. FONNEREAU. FOSSICK. FOWLER. FOX. FRY. GALBRAITH. GASKELL. GIBSON. GOURLAY. GREY. GROSE. GURNEY. GUTHRIE. HALE. HALL. HARVEY. HEATHFIELD. HODGKIN. HOGARTH. HOGG. HOOMAN HUSSEY St JOHN. JOWITT. KING. KYNASTON. LAMBARDE LANCASTER. LASCELLES. LIVINGSTON. LLOYD. LORT. LUARD. LUCAS. LUTWIDGE. MACFARLANE. MASTERMAN. MORRISON. MOTT. MOUNSEY. NASH, OAKELEY. OGILVY. OLIVER. PARKES. PAUL. PEASE. PRINGLE. PROCTOR. RENEE. RICHARDSON. RIGMAIDEN. ROBERTON. ROWLEY. RUTHERFORD. SMITH. SNOW. STANLEY. STRAHAN. THYNNE. TORRIANO. TREGELLES. TUCKETT. VASIE. VIVIAN . WALKER. WHITWELL. WILSON.
HAYWARD family Surname Index.
Again, only main names included. If the name is highlighted, click to go to that family page. There have been spelling variants for so far for HAYWARD, ECKERSLEY, THORNLEY, AND BOWICK. The worst I found was Patrick for KIRKPATRICK on one census. New names and information will be added in due course.
ADAMSON. ASTLEY. BALL. BAMBER. BERRY. BEDDOWS. BOWACK/BOWICK. COLLINGE. CROMPTON. DUNNING. ECKERSLEY. ENTWISTLE. FLETCHER. GARGATE. HASLAM. HAYWARD; HEWART. HOLDEN. HORROCKS. KIRKHAM. KIRKPATRICK. KNOWLES. LEE. LORD. MELLODY. MULLEN NUTTALL OGILVY. PARKINSON. PLUMMER. RIDYARD. ROBERTS. ROBIE. SAXON. SMART. STEWART. SYKES. TAYLOR. THORNLEY. TURNER WALSH. WHALLEY. WRIGHT. YATES.