The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Spring 1997 Vol. 3. No. 1.

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NEWS AND VIEWS

RESEARCH NOTES

SOME POSTERITY OF STEPHEN AND ANNA GOODHEW HALES

HENRY WILLIAM HALES (1829 – 1909)

This is on-line version of The HALES Newsletter. The HALES Newsletter is the Journal of the HALES Family. It is a quarterly publication of the HALES Family History Society and variant spellings, including HALES, HAILS, HAILES, HAYLS, and HAYLES. The information includes current events, historical sketches and genealogical information pertaining to the Hales family. The pictures can be viewed by clicking on words that are highlighted. It is published by Kenneth Glyn Hales, secretary of The Hales Genealogical Society from 1970 through 1981 and The Hales Family History Society since 1995.

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The intent of the HALES Family History Society is to document all HALES, HAILS, HAILES, HAYLS, and HAYLES families wherever they are found in all parts of the world. This documentation is found in the multi-volume The Hales Chronicles. This information is provided as a service to the Hales Family.

The Hales Chronicles contains the genealogical information published by the Hales Family History Society. This database can be found on the Hales web-page at www.hales.org and can be found in book form at The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah; The Library of Congress at Washington, D.C.; The Library of The Society of Genealogists at London, England; and the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone, Kent, England. The Hales Chronicles is also found on-line. Look here to verify your family information and to search for your ancestors.

The Hales Newsletter is provided to the above cited repositories and the Allen County Public Library at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Allen County Public Library indexes our publication and provides articles through their Periodical Source Index (PERSI).

Printed copies of The Hales Newsletter are provided to members of The Hales Family History Society. If you desire to be come a member, refer to the membership section on our home-page. If you would like a printed copy of individual Hales Newsletters, reprints are available at a cost of $3.75 each.

Please check your address label to determine when you need to renew your membership. Above your name is the issue and year of your last issue (i.e. Spring 1997).

We have made a great amount of information available the past two years. We have established an address where information can be exchanged. What a great way to promote this great family. Lets ensure that this will continue by renewing your membership. With your support we will continue to grow and develop.

Since our last Hales Newsletter our Home Page has expanded. It now contains an abstract of each Hales Newsletter, more than 20% of the Hales Chronicles, information about our Hales Family History Society, and other information as well.

I plan to put all of the Hales Chronicles on the internet and make the internet version the master copy (i.e. all changes will be made to this copy and any printed version will be taken from it). My current priority is to first convert all of the Hales Chronicles to the code required by the internet (HTML documents), then include the remaining 1881 British census, and then to begin updates and additions. This will take some time. If you want to check on progress you can look at the Home Page.

To look at the Hales Family History Society Home Page you should enter the following command:

http:\ \www.hales.org\

(Note: If any Hales family has their own Home Page please enter a linkage to the Hales Family History Society Home Page as part of your Home Page. This will increase the visibility of our Home Page to others).

This section of our Newsletter contains the happenings that I am made aware of between issues. If you have something you wish to share, please send me the information.

Announcing the arrival of Samuel Alexander Hales on Tuesday, April 15, 1997. The son of David Clay and Christina Mattix Hales. A grandson of Kenneth Glyn and Judy Larsen Hales, and Keith Alan Mattix and Duana Madsen, he arrived at 1:24 p.m. at Provo, Utah. Weighing in at 7 pounds 3 ounces and measuring 20 and a half inches, big sister Madeline will have some changes to make - she is no longer the only attention getter in this Hales family. Congratulations to Christina and Clay and welcome to Samuel Alexander .

Springville, Utah – Leah Hales Harrison, 96, a truly exceptional woman, died February 8, 1997.

Leah was born September 19, 1900 in Mammoth, Utah, the daughter of George and Eliza Brockbank Hales. She was raised in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Following graduation from Brigham Young University she taught home economics at Lincoln High School, Tintic High School and Springville High School. She married Milton H. Harrison May 23, 1934 in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He died June 16, 1986. She was an active, faithful member of the LDS Church and often reminded her family that their greatest joy would come from serving the Lord Jesus Christ. She was an avid BYU fan, never missing a game either in person or on the radio. Her wit, homemaking skills, interest in others and phenomenal memory made her a source of delight to everyone who knew her.

She is survived by daughters: Jane H. Calder (Richard), Salt Lake City, Utah; and Suzanne H. Fullmer (Richard), Sandy, Utah; six grandchildren: Susan C. Nicholes, Steven Calder, Diane C. Samie, Thomas Calder, Bradley Fullmer and Richard Fullmer, Jr., plus nine-great-grandchildren. Also surviving are a sister, Mary H. Frandsen and a brother, Angus Hales, both of Springville.

Funeral services were held Wednesday , February 12, 1997 in the Springville l0th Ward Chapel of the LDS Church and interment was in the Springville, Utah Evergreen Cemetery.

She leaves a thank you to all of the family members, friends and neighbors who so enriched her life and made her last years so happy.

Richfield, Utah -- Lael Torgerson Hales, 58, returned to her Heavenly Father, Sunday, February 2, 1997, after a long courageous battle with cancer, at her home in Richfield, Utah.

She was born April 20, 1938 in Salina, Utah to Arthur Henry and Alice Luella Knighton Torgerson. She married John Hales, November 15, 1969 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lael's life was one of service to others, there was always a hug and a smile for everyone she knew. She was the chairperson for the Elk's Lodge Charity Baskets program and head of Festival of the Trees for Sevier County. She was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) where she served as compassionate service leader for 11 years). She received her endowments in the Manti Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in November of 1955).

She is survived by her husband, John, of Richfield; daughters, Anne Marie Hales (Gary) Childs, Logan, Utah; Christine Lee Hales; and grandson, Ryley John Hales, of Elsinore, Utah; brothers and sister, Charles A. (Connie W.) Torgerson, Larry K. (Libby E .) Torgerson, both of Bicknell, Utah; Phil K. Torgerson, of Denver, Colorado; and Carol Charlesworth, Salina, Utah. Lael was preceded in death by step-daughter, Randi Hales, parents, sister, Myra T. Gish.

Funeral services were held Friday, February 7, 1997 in the Richfield First, Third and Eleventh Wards Chapel of the LDS Church and burial was in the Richfield, Utah City Cemetery.

John A. Schuler, beloved husband of Louella Hales Schuler, died Saturday, December 23, 1995 in Ohio. Born in 1918 he grew up in the Cincinnati area and graduated from Roger Bacon High School. He served two consecutive tours of duty in the Navy, rising to the rank of chief petty officer. He met his wife while in the Navy during World War II where she also served. They were married in 1946 in Hillsboro, North Dakota and settled in Cincinnati.

In addition to his wife, he is also survived by a son, Thomas; five daughters, Marilyn O'Toole, Rose-Mary Crusham, Laura Ellis and Veronica Schrenk of Green Township, and Theresa Waltner of Delhi; 24 grandchild; and three great-grandchildren.

The following arrived over the internet by e-mail to the Hales Family History Society.

Hi, my name is Bob Erwin from Atlanta. One of my son's ancestors through his mother was a Martha Hales who married Jesse Bradley (born 1739) from Charles City County, Virginia. He was the son of Benjamin Bradley (died 1768). Martha Hales may have been the daughter of a John Hales who died in Henrico County, Virginia about 1752. Do you know anything about this family? Here is some information I have entered.

Colonial Wills of Henrico County Virginia Part Two 1737 -1781 by Weisiger. (Note: by date – not page number order).

p. 159, Inventory of John Hales by Henry Sharp, administrator, value 885 pounds 6 shillings 6 pence, June 24, 1752. Appraised by Francis Wagstaff, John Cocke, John Carter. Recorded September 1752.

p. 276, Accounts of estate of John Hales, by Henry Sharp, administrator, recorded October 1, 1753.

p. 51, November Court 1756 – John Pleasants, Jr., administrator of John Hales presents estate accounts.

p. 149, June Court 1757 – John Hales, heir at law of John Hales, deceased, granted administration of his father's estate. Martha Hales, orphan of John Hales chooses her brother John Hales her guardian, as do his sisters Susannah and Elizabeth Hales (the latter sisters had him appointed their guardian by the court rather than by their choice). Mary Hales, orphan of John Hales, chooses John Royster her guardian.

p. 271, August Court 1758 – The following guardians summoned to render accounts of their wards' estates: John Hales for Martha, Susannah, and Elizabeth Hales, orphans of John Hales. John Royster for Mary Hales, orphan of John Hales.

p. 347, August Court 1759- John Hales returns guardians account for Susannah and Elizabeth Hales.

p. 491, February Court 1761 – Martha and Susannah Hales, orphans of John Hales, choose Charles Woodson as their Guardian.

p. 494, March Court 1761 – Accounts of estate of John Hales, deceased, returned by Henry Sharp, John Hales, John Pleasants.

p. 276, June Court 1764 – Susanna Hales came into court to choose a guardian, which was refused her, she having formerly chosen Charles Woodson, who is summoned by the court to answer her complaint.

It was with great pleasure that my husband Robert and I found your Website on the internet. My dad is a Hailes! His name is Norman James Hailes, and was born in 1921 in Gloucester, England. He came to Canada originally with the R.A.F., where he met my mother Christine Elizabeth Baron. They were married at Carberry, Manitoba, Canada. I had three brother and four sisters. Two of my brothers are in the Hales Chronicles.

Finding my dad's relatives has been like finding a needle in a haystack! My great-grandfather it is said ran away from home and almost died of exposure. They say he ran away from Cheltenham, England. As far as we know he never had any contact with his family ever again. My dad's family thought he might have come from an affluent family, but nobody is sure of that.

Recently, a friend went to England and was researching at the Gloucester Record Office. She looked up my grandparents birth records and found that Thomas Alfred Hailes was born February 27th, 1893 at 1 Granville Street, Tuffley R.S.D., South Hamlet, County of Gloucester. He married Ada Phoeby Colley who was born June 3rd, 1896 at 5 Ada Lane, Wotten (within) U.D. Kingsholm, Countyof Gloucester. I found their marriage record on the fiche – they were married in March (first quarter) 1913. The exact date I am not sure, but they were in volume 6a, page 516. So I have sent for their marriage record. Hopefully it will give me more information.

My great-grandfather's name (the one that ran away) is listed as just Thomas Hailes, but family members seem to think it was Thomas William Hailes. He married Fanny Howell, who it is believed came from Wales. Anyway, that is the story so far.

It was kind of spooky finding my younger brother named Alfred Charles Hailes in the Chronicles. My husband got lots of goose bumps. The other brother is Warren Grenfell Hailes. He died at Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. Both of them were killed as a result of drinking and driving. My dad is still living, as are most of his family members in England.

Hi. I saw the Hales homepage on the internet. As you can see from my address I am a Hales -- and, at the moment, can trace my family back to Stockbury, Kent, England in about 1830. I am presently waiting to see if I can get data on the marriage of this oldest couple, Stephen Hales and Anna Goodhew. So I am very interested in your project. I already have the census data on Stephen and Anna, as well as two of their children, and a bunch of other data that I have gained from: (a) a couple of old wills; (b) talking to two of my distant cousins in England, and (c) what I could learn from the Hales family over here. (My grandfather arrived from England in 1919).

The following sketch is based on several not received on the internet from Roy Leverett Hales of Fort Langley, BC, Canada and from what he has gleaned from the Hales Chronicles. (Roy's father is a 5th cousin from myself; and a 6th cousin from most of the Utah Hales families)

Stephen Hales (chr 26 November 1826 at Stockbury , Kent, England and last seen in the 1881 census of Headcorn, Kent, England married Anna Goodhew (c1834 at Borden, Kent, England – c1881 on 14 June 1855 at Minster, Kent, England. This Stephen Hales was the son of Thomas and Ann Banner Hales, grandson of William and Mary Wells Hales, and great-grandson of Stephen and Ann Clinch Hales.

From Stephen's birth in Stockbury, he appears to have resided there as late as 1863.

This couple were the parents of nine children: William Herbert, Ellen, Lily Phyllis, Agnes, Emily, Edward, Elizabeth, Rosa and Stephen Richard. His oldest three daughters (Ellen, Lily Phyllis, and Agnes) were all born in Milton Regis between 1865 and 1871. By the time of his daughter Rosa's birth on February 2, 1879 the family had moved to the neighbouring village of Headcorn, Kent.

The 1881 census mentions that he was a "Fruitier" living at Prospect cottage, Headcorn, Kent. Family tradition asserts that he owned an orchard. Ellen and Lily Phyllis Hales, daughters of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, both married the same man, Rudolf Stovkis of Brussels, Belgium. Ellen having died and Lily Phyllis later taking the place of her sister. Lily Phyllis inherited the estate of her husband and is mentioned throughout this sketch.

William Herbert Hales (c1856 – prior to 1948) the oldest son of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, married Emily ... "Herbert" was a cook and confectionary born in Stockbury and resided at 32 Goldstone Road, Hove, Sussex when the 1881 census was taken. His wife Emily was from Angmering, Sussex. They also had a family of nine children: Stanley, Phillip Sidney, Isabella, Florence Gertrude, Daisey, Eva, Herbert Richard, Dorothy Eleanor and Maude Edith.

Stanley Hales of Worthing, Sussex, son of Herbert and Emily Hales, left his share of Lily Phyllis Hales Stovkis's estate to his Belgian cousins, and the late Lily's stepdaughters, Ellen Isabel Stovkis and Theresa Stovkis Hartog.

Phillip Sidney Hales of Horsham, Sussex; Isabella Hales of Worthing, Sussex; and Florence Gertrude Hales (c1881), children of Herbert and Emily Hales, lived with Isabella in Worthing, Sussex. Isabella left her share (one sixth) of Lily Phyllis Hales Stovkis's estate to her Belgian cousins, and the late Lily's stepdaughters, Ellen Isabel Stovkis and Theresa Stovkis Hartog.

Daisey Hales, daughter of Herbert and Emily Hales, married Mr. Grinling of Norwich, Norfolk.

Eva Hales, daughter of Herbert and Emily Hales, (c1881 – prior to 1947) married Mr. Muggeridge.

Herbert Richard Hales of Worthing, Sussex, son of Herbert and Emily Hales, predeceased his father.

Dorothy Eleanor Hales, daughter of Herbert and Emily Hales, married Mr. Blake of Worthing, Sussex.

Maude Edith Hales, daughter of Herbert and Emily Hales, married Mr. Sultun and lived in Worthing, Sussex.

Ellen Hales (c1865), daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, married Rudolf Stovkis of Brussels, Belgium. Ellen was born in Milton, Kent. They were the parents of at least two daughters: Ellen Isabel and Theresa Stovkis. Theresa married ... Hartog.

Lily Phyllis Hales (c1870 – 22 October 1947), daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales was born in Milton, Kent. She married her late sister Ellen's husband, Rudolf Stovkis, and thus became stepmother to Ellen Isabel Stovkis and Theresa Stovkis Hartog. She is said to have entered the maniage with no money of her own, and in later years was given money, at regular intervals, by both of her stepdaughters.

Emily Hales (c1860 – prior to 1947), daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, married Mr. Sturdeman.

Edward Hales (c1867), son of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, was unable to be contacted when his sister Lily Phyllis Hales Stovkis died in 1947. It is not known whether he ever married or died a bachelor.

Elizabeth Hales (c1859 – prior to 1948), was a daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales.

Agnes Hales (c1868), daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, was born in Milton, Kent.

Rosa Anne Matilda Hales (February 2, 1879 – after 1948) was a daughter of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales. After her sister Lily Phyllis Hales Stovkis died in 1947, Rosa gave her share of the inheritance to Lily's stepdaughters Ellen Isabel Stovkis and Theresa Stovikis Hartog, who lived in Belgium.

Stephen Richard Hales (1857 – 10 July 1930), son of Stephen and Anna Goodhew Hales, married Lena Emily Perrett (c1853 -1917) at Henley on the Thames in January 1881. Stephen spent his first years in the villages clustered around Maidstone, Kent; born in Stockbury, living in Milton between 1856 and 1870, and undoubtedly with his parents in Headcorn in 1879. His 1881 marriage to Emily coincided with a move to Henley on the Thames, in Oxfordshire. The census taken that year mentions that he was a confectioner employing 2 men and a household servant.

By 1894 Stephen was able to lease the much more prestigious location of 20 Market Street, which would remain the Hales Bakery until his grandson Robert Stephen Hales retired in 1962.

The model steam oven Stephen utilized was state of the art technology for the turn of the century. Stephen entered several United Kingdom-wide baking contests, winning one of seven prizes awarded at the Confectioners, Bakers and Allied Trades Third Annual Exhibition (London, 1895); Third in the Baker and Confectioner Prize Competition (London, 1896); A special diploma from the Master Baker's and Confectioners Society (1899).

My father, Roy Armstrong Hales, remembers hearing how Stephen was a respected businessman who allowed the town's poor families to cook their Sunday dinners at his home or business. An old photo depicts him as an officer in the local militia.

Stephen and his wife Lena appear to have enjoyed dressing up. Two old photos that have come down to us depict them in the clothing of other eras. In one they are clothed in the ornate garb of sixteenth century English gentry. Another depicts Stephen and Emily in Eighteenth century custumes. Stephen appears plump, satisfied and materialistic. His plump, buxom wife Lena appears uncomfortable in her tight fitting Eighteenth century gown. By this time they had at least two household servants and six children: Stephen Richard, Thomas Perrett, Lillian Elsie, Florence, Vera and Clifford Walter Hales.

Lena died of the Asian flu in 1917. Stephen moved to Minster, in Kent, with his two unmarried daughters, Florence and Vera, after retiring in 1921 or 1922. They returned annually for the Regatta until Stephen died in 1930. He was buried beside Lena, in Fairmile Cemetery, just outside Henley on the Thames.

Florence Hales (c1886), daughter of Stephen Richard and Lena Emily Perrett Hales, lived with her father until his death in 1930, and received Ł200 pounds after his death. She and her sister Vera used their inheritance to open a sweetshop at Thomton and later bought a house in Streatham. They are said to have taken in lodgers. She received a further Ł86.2.10 after the death of her aunt Lily Phyllis Stovkis in 1947.

Vera Hales, daughter of Stephen Richard and Lena Emily Perrett Hales (and Clifford Hales favorite sister) received the same inheritance as her sister Florence, above.

Thomas Perrett Hales (c1883 -Jan 7 1948), son of Stephen Richard and Emily Perrett Hales, married Elsie Holmes (died Feb 1955) in September 1909. Elsie Holmes, a farmer's daughter from Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, worked in the Post Office in Henley. This family had two sons: Robert Stephen and Frank Thomas Hales.

His son Robert writes that, "My father went to Henley Grammar school and later possibly to a boarding school (the last odd remark I picked up, but cannot verify). He was a keen footballer in the early 1900s. My father worked in the business with grandpa until he was called up in 1916.

Thomas Perrett Hales didn't talk about his wartime experiences, but his son Robert found a notebook about field telephones and electrical details. Thomas apparently served in the signal corps of the 4th Royal Berks in WWI. In 1922 took over the Hales Bakery in Henley.

Robert Stephen Hales ( Sept 1911), son of Thomas Perrett and Elsie Holmes Hales, married Bessie McSweeney in 1945.

I first learned of Robert Stephen Hales through a report that the Henley on the Thames Archaeological and Historical Group made on the former Hales Bakery at 20 Market Street: "The last member of the three generations of bakers was able to throw some more light on the history of the house and that of his family. He also told me that it was common knowledge that the house had been a surgery before. This dispels the last doubts whether it had really been the home of Dr. J. H. Brooks previously. The photograph of the bakery shows Mr. Hales grandfather Stephen R. Hales (with the moustache on the left near the window) and his father Thomas Perrett Hales (the young lad on the left). The oven in the back is a side-flue oven, which was replaced by a Perkins Patent Steam Oven early in this century. This was in constant use during Bob Hales times, the other side flue oven was difficult to regulate and very rarely used." Along with this report, the Henley Library sent me Robert's address.

Perhaps a month after I wrote, I received Robert's reply: "Your letter was a surprise! I knew Uncle Cliff had a daughter Betty, but was unaware of any son. I am sorry I have taken so long to reply, but sorting through loads of stuff took a long time. I married a London girl, Bessie McSweeney, in 1945.

Of their courtship – "During the last war Henley on the Thames was designated a reception area, and East Londoners were billeted there and in surrounding villages.

We adopted a boy in 1948 (the year he inherited the bakery) and a girl, Julia, a little later.

In the mid 1950's I packed up my bread rounds; sliced bread was taking off and the milkmen were delivering it, having got it from supermarkets. Things were getting tight. Should I spend money on new equipment? My lease needed renewing and the new lease rent came as quite a shock, particularly as local Council rates were tied to business rents. We had a meeting, accountants, solicitors etc., and were advised to get a fourteen year lease and sell up. This we did in 1960 and, although I was only 50, I decided to retire and ended up here in the Chilterns.

In Henley on the Thames after the war there were more than a dozen bakers, several butchers, grocers and a couple of fishmongers. Now there are only two butchers and bakers, no fishmongers or grocers shops. The supermarkets have taken their place. Henley now consists largely of estate agents, antique shops, building societies and closed shops.

Wallingford, where my daughter Julia lives, is just the same -- no small businesses. Supermarkets are being built on the outskirts of towns and the centres are dying.

I spent Christmas in hospital, having a hip replacement which was successful, but I have back problems which slows me down, plus, of course, old age!

After retiring I became interested in Vintage Cars and went to race tracks to watch vintage car events. If I can find a picture of my last car, a 1928 four and a half litre Bentley 25 H.P. I will send it to you.

I am trying to trace my cousins, Uncle Richard's sons. As they would be as old as me, I doubt that they will still be alive. At one time there were some cousins living in Worthing. It is dreadful to realize that we have no contact since the death of grandfather, except several years ago when Aunt Vera died and left a bequest in her will to my brother and myself.

My daughter, Julia Hales (adopted in 1949) married Mr. Sharp. She is secretary to the mayor of Wallingford and helps her father with correspondence as well.

Frank Thomas Hales (Feb 1915 -- 1989), son of Thomas Perrett and Elsie Holmes Hales, married Helen Brooks. Frank was trained as an engineer, and so became a Royal Engineer during WWII. He subsequently worked at the City Engineering Department, Kennington, Oxfordshire. A daughter, Ann Hales (1940), was born to this family. She remains unmarried.

Stephen Richard Hales, Jr. (c1882), son of Stephen Richard and Anna Goodhew Hales, married Alice May Burfitt in 1905 (she died in 1920). Stephen Richard and Alice May Burfitt Hales were the parents of three children: Bunty, Stephen Richard Coote Hales and Clifford James Dyke Hales. Following the death of his first wife, Stephen Richard Hales, Jr., married Margaret Lewis. Stephen Richard and Margaret Lewis Hales were the parents of Peter Lewis Hales.

His nephew, Robert, writes that, "Grandpa put Uncle Richard into a business at Fareham, which apparently failed and he helped at the Market Place during the war. According to odd conversations I heard (I was 5 years old and probably should not have heard), Uncle Richard tried to get Grandpa to give him the business. As you can imagine there was dissension in the family. As I was only 5 or 6 at the time, I don't know how this was sorted out and after my father died I found no letters. Richard married a second time and his wife Margaret got in touch with my father to try and patch things up. Whether she succeeded I never knew."

Of Stephen Richard and Alice May Burfitt Hales children: Bunty, Stephen Richard Coote Hales, and Clifford James Dyke; Bunty Hales died of consumption; Stephen Richard Coote Hales (Aug 16 1912) was of Worthing, Sussex; and Clifford James Dyke Hales (Apri12 1914 -- Jan 23 1984) married Lily ... In 1995 Lily was living at 219 South Farm road, Worthing, Sussex. I had mailed all the Hales families in Worthing, hoping to find a relative. She had her son Richard reply. Richard wrote that his father, Clifford James Dyke Hales, remembers my grandfather Clifford Walter Hales "kindness and generosity during his visits home." This family consisted of sons John and Richard.

John Hales, son of Clifford James Dyke and Lily Hales is the father of 4 children.

Richard Hales (1953), son of Clifford James Dyke and Lily Hales married Nicky Moss and presently lives at Harbour View, Chidham Lane, Chidham, Chichester, West Sussex P018 8TO, Richard and Nicky Hales are the parents of Katie Hales (c1984) and Matthew Hales (c1987).

In addition to supplying a few genealogical details in his 1995 letter, Richard sends "Best Wishes to the Hales clan on the other side of the pond."

Peter Lewis Hales, son of Stephen Richard and Margaret Lewis Hales was born 28 June 1933.

Clifford Walter Hales (Nov 3 1890 -- Jan 29 1973), son of Stephen Richard and Lena Emily Perrett Hales, married Nelle Armstrong (October 11, 1891 -- March 6, 1984).

A mischievous, long haired bundle of curiosity stares out at us from one of our earliest photographs of Clifford Walter Hales. At that moment he was mounted on a rocking horse, but we can imagine him getting into all kinds of mischief. Later his sisters would escort him to the train to go to school, but Cliff didn't always want to go -- so he sometimes climbed aboard the train from one side and then quickly ran out on the other.

One of Clifford's few interactions with his father Stephen occurred when he spread plastic ink on the Bakery's open ledger. Most of the time Stephen had little to say to his son, and Emily perhaps doted on him as a form of compensation. Clifford would remain close to his mother throughout her lifetime. Prior to marrying Nelle Arrnstrong, he assigned the $20 monthly paycheque he received as an artillery driver in the First World War to Emily. When Stephen died, years later, Clifford is said to have quietly went into his room and laid down, contemplating the ceiling for the rest of the day. Nothing more was said of the matter. (He received an inheritance of 212 English pounds).

Having immigrated to Canada just prior to the First World War, Clifford joined a militia artillery battery on July 14, 1915. Three weeks later he was in England, in the hastily thrown together Canadian Second Division. His unit slept in borrowed British tents and many of the officers attended military school while the unit was being assembled. The Second Division crossed the English channel in September and Clifford was assigned as a driver to the 8th Howitzer brigade. For the duration of the war he would pull cannons through the muck of Flanders, and presumably when he was not moving artillery he would strap ammunition to his mules. Cliff later insisted that mules had a sixth sense. Sometimes his mules would abruptly halt and nothing he did could make them go farther. After a few experiences of German shells dropping where he would have been had the mules not stopped. Cliff learned to trust his animals. Horses, however, would have walked right into the dropping bomb and been blown up.

An acute appendicitis brought Cliff together with his future wife. He was on Christmas leave in Henley when the problem arose. A medical officer promptly sent Cliff to Number One War Hospital in Reading and he was operated on that same day. Cliff was still in the hospital on January 18 1916 when orders posting him to the Second Division's Reserve Brigade came through. With their customary efficiency, the Canadian army subsequently held a court of inquiry and declared that he had deserted.

Six days after his supposed desertion, Clifford left the hospital. The doctors wrote that he was "almost healed." It was too soon -- his wounds reopened and Cliff spent the next six months at Reading Convalescent Hospital. While he was in the hospital Clifford became romantically involved with one of the nurses.

Nelle Armstrong was a pretty young woman with large blue eyes. They were married on July 1 1916. The next day Cliffs supposed desertion was crossed out from his service record.

Clifford returned to the front in time for the mass carnage of the Somme, Vimy Ridge and all the other major Canadian battles of the First World War. He emerged from this period with only minor injuries. Twice he was treated for scabies, a parasite which flourished in the filth infested battlefields and burrows beneath its' victim's epidermis to cause severe itching. His only prolonged hospital stay -- for two weeks during February 1918 -- came after one of his mules sniffed a horses rump during watering time. The horse showed its dislike of the other animal by viciously lashing out with its hoofs and caught Clifford on the thigh.

The first and second divisions were slated to occupy Germany after the war ended on November 15 1918. Almost a month later, General Arthur W. Currie watched the Second Division enter Bonn Cliff and the rest of his division were billeted among the German houses in the surrounding area. They remained as part of the army of occupation until January 27 1919, when the entire Canadian corps was reunited in Belgium. From there they crossed the English channel.

Currie had wished to send the troops home in the order they had enlisted, but this did not prove to be practical. Striking British dock workers caused numerous delays between February and May. The Canadian authorities caused further delays when they rejected a number of vessels that were available. The third and first divisions had to be embarked before any contingents from the second. Cliff and his new wife Nelle probably spent some their time visiting with their families in Southern England.

Cliff finally boarded the Canadian destroyer "Buxton" at the end of May 1919. After being discharged in Quebec, on July 2 1919, Clifford took his wife to Vancouver , British Columbia. Other than the occasional letter, he appears to have lost contact with the family back in England. Clifford's son Roy doesn't remember meeting any of his British relatives.

Clifford was working for Giant Powder Company when Nelle gave birth to their first child, Roy Armstrong Hales, on February 5 1920.

Everyone acknowledged Nelle as one of the best cooks around. I used to call my mother the Second best, "Nana" being better. Dell says that for years Nelle tried to gain Cliffs approval for her culinary arts, but never heard more than a "It's alright."

Clifford was a quiet man and a gentlemen. His daughter Betty calls him the last of the gentlemen. He used to raise his hat to the ladies, which would send Nelle into fits of jealousy.

Cliff was also a tease. If a pimple broke out on her face, his daughter in law Dell knew that Cliff would be sure to point at it and ask "what's that thing?"

One day he went too far -- invited to supper at Roy and Dell's, Cliff greeted the main course with remarks like: "I don't like ham -- just scalloped potatoes." Later, when Dell brought a pumpkin pie in for dessert, he made another disparaging remark. "Well, would you like some," Dell asked? "Alright", he muttered. So she pushed it in his face.

"I've wanted to do that for years," Nelle remarked! Everyone, including Cliff, broke out laughing.

In 1937 or 1938 Clifford was put in charge of an explosive department in Nanaimo -- essentially a one man operation. Dell remembers visiting the Hales' Nanaimo home and being sent out to pick mushrooms. She now wonders about some of the fungi that went into the pan, but Nana used to cook them all up and no one ever got sick. The family retired to Maple Ridge in 1954 or 55.

Clifford was great at partys. He used to dress up in a woman's dress and wig when family played charades in later years. He was deaf from being too close to the big guns of WW I. He used to enjoy walking. When Cliffs sister Lillian died on June 18th 1967, she left him an inheritance of 100 English pounds. He was then living at 11394 17th avenue, Maple Ridge.

Betty Hales, daughter of Clifford Walter and Nelle Armstrong Hales, was born August 20, 1924, married first Douglas Lee and second Alvin Smith. Alvin Smith was born November 12, 1928.

Betty opened a restaurant in a bowling alley with her first husband after he returned from WWII. They separated because of his wanton ways. A saleslady, who took some very enjoyable trips to Japan before that got too expensive.

Her second husband was a house painter. They presently live in the old Johnson house on the South Alouette River in Maple Ridge. Betty loves to make doll houses, and often displays her work.

Roy Armstrong Hales, son of Clifford Walter and Nelle Armstrong Hales, was born on February 5, 1920 married first Della May Cross in May of 1942. She was born November 5, 1920. Roy married second Ingrid Wilschewski. Roy married third Gwen Cherry (nee Speed).

As a child Roy got on well with his mother, not as well with Clifford. A long distance swimmer and runner, he liked to go and go and go. People remarked on how he would just disappear into the distance. He swam at the Crystal Pool.

Roy was drafted in WWII. He was a Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. After Pearl Harbour, saw his Commanding Officer and offered to volunteer, which meant he could be sent into combat, providing they send him back to defend British Columbia from the expected Japanese invasion.

Roy made whiskey in his own still. In the Canadian Amateur Swimming championships at Vancouver BC on July 19 -- 22, 1944, it was noted that Roy Hales of the Vancouver YMCA placed 3rd in 300 Yard Senior Men's Medley relay.

In 1945-49 Roy operated a sawmill which he then shut down and leased to a Frenchman. In 1952 he built 8 foot boat. Bigger boats followed. In 1956 he was in Power squadron -- later he became Rear Commander, and Squadron Commander of Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows. In 1962 Roy suffered a heart attack.

Roy opened Hales Lumber Company in Pitt Meadows and later it for $1,000,000 in 1981.

He and Dell fought often. Of his first marriage, Roy regards the failure principally from his own immaturity. His second marriage was to a much younger woman who loved boating, Chinese Food and retired from teaching to work for him in the Lumberyard.

Roy relocated to Gabriola Island, BC, with his wife Ingrid (since 1974). This second marriage broke down from unresolved conflicts. Roy and Ingrid lived in the same house for a year after their official separation -- neither wanted to give it up! During this time Roy started going for walks and swimming with Gwen Cherry. Roy married Gwen around 1990.

Through Gwen's influence Roy has developed an interest in gardening. He and Gwen also play cards and go on RV trips.

Steven P Hales, son of Roy Armstrong and Della May Cross Hales, was born June 13, 1943 and was murdered in 1996. He married twice: first to Agnes Polatos and second to Florida Mendoza.

Steven was an honor roll student in school. Around 1963 he worked his way down the west coast of South America aboard a Norwegian freighter. Shocked by the poverty, he studied to be a lay minister for the United Church -- and met his first wife on a soccer field at Naramata Bible School. He worked in a sawmill and served as lay minister to three interior towns: Clearwater, Avola and Blue River, BC. Steven subsequently left the United Church over pay squabbles.

Steven was working at his father's lumber yard when Agnes left him for another man. She took the children. Steve drank heavily for a couple of years after that and had a couple of casual relationships with women. He went on to attempt running his own lumber yard and he salvaged logs from the Campbell River area of Vancouver Island. He finally become a prison guard.

Steven Florida during a visit to the Philippines. After a few years in Maple Ridge they moved there.

Patrick Edward Hales, son of Steven P. and Agnes Polatos Hales was born on May 26, 1968. He lives in Mission, BC, Canada and is a carpenter/builder.

Angela Dawn Hales, daughter of Stephen P . and Agnes Polatos Hales was born December 21, 1968. She married Abe Kratz and lives in Kamloops, BC, Canada. She currently manages a clothing store.

Roy Leverett Hales, son of Roy Armstrong and Della May Cross Hales, was born March 6, 1951. He married Angela Martic on March 2, 1953.

Roy walked out of high school in grade 10 to find his own way. He became heavily involved in Eastern Religions (i.e. lived for 8 months in an Ashram and 2 years in Gestalt houses), the occult and drugs, like many of his contemporaries, from 1972- 1974.

Led to St Margaret's Church by a dream, Roy thought he'd stick around and see what God would want him to learn from a bunch of Christians. Converted to Christianity, Roy gained a testimony of the divinity of Jesus Christ.

Roy moved into His Land Christian Community, in Mission, December 27, 1974 and stayed there until April 1, 1984. Roy initially shocked the Baptist couple who ran it: frequently voicing his resentments and appreciations (a Gestalt House practice); suggesting that they all go skinny-dipping. They decided his brain had teen fried by drugs. He, in turn, was shocked by the way Christians didn't deal with their resentments.

In time Roy became one of the main worker in the community: Waldun Forest Products (a combined sawmill/shinglemill operation) 1975-77; Treeplanting 1978-83; Shamrock Janitorial Service 1981-84.

Angela Martic came to the community in January 1975 and remained there, except for a year in Australia and Germany, until she and Roy left in 1984. She loves animals, praying in the forest and solitude. She taught Roy German, and played cards with him. In 1980 she planted trees with him. They were married August 2, 1980. They took a 2 month exploration of Canada, as far as Cape Breton Island, for their honeymoon. Most of that time they lived in an old van. The vision for His Land Christian Community was dying, and there was only 3 couples and 2 single people left when it was decided to dissolve in 1984.

Roy was active in Mission Evangelical Free Church (Sunday School Teacher 1984 and 1985; Missions Elder 1986) until it split in mid 1986. He tried a series of other churches, and was PR man for Cross Cultural Christian Ministries (1987-89) until coming to Langley Vineyard Fellowship in 1991. Praying for a career, Roy was almost immediately hired as a house painter. However, he excels more at hobbies: writing for newspapers (1982-91); Volunteer Editor of The Vine Press (1992-93); Subleader of a writer's and artists group called Artistic License (1993-present). He and Angela owned houses in: Mission (1986-87); Maple Ridge (1987-1991) ; Mission (1991-93); Fort Langley (1993-present). They like going for walks, movies and restaurants. Someday they would like to take the girls on a trip across Canada.

Sarah Rosemary Hales, daughter of Roy Leverett and Angela Martic Hales, was born October 27, 1981. She was very quiet as a baby. Some people worried that there might be something wrong with her. Almost too obedient -- once while playing outside with some friends someone offered her some potato chips. They were gone by the time she came back from washing her hands. Full of imagination: she writes stories, observes tiny details in a television show or her pet animals and tells them to friends in great detail. Likes the music of Michael W Smith, the Newsboys, and Steve Taylor.

Amy Marie Hales, daughter of Roy Leverett and Angela Martic Hales, was born April 30, 1984. She has her mother's love of animals. She excels in all things miniature -- making flowers, leggos, stories. She loves to take care of children. She can be extremely thoughtful of others.

Henry was nearly three when his father and family immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1832 and settled at Toronto. He was in his seventh year when his father, mother, older brother Charles Henry, and older sister Mary Isabella, embraced The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1836. In his ninth year, in 1838 in the spring, the Hales family started by team to gather with the saints at Far West, Missouri. The roads were bad because of the spring thaw, and following several stops along the way they arrived in the fall. Now the Hales family was with the main body of the church and were subject to all of the persecutions of that time.

Henry first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith at Kirtland when he was betrayed into the hands of the mob by Colonel George Hinkle, and heard him, along with other prisoners, sentenced to be shot without being given a hearing.

From Far West the Hales family was expelled from the state of Missouri with the rest of the saints and went to Quincy, Illinois. They remained at Quincy until 1841 when the Hales family, with Henry in his twelfth year, removed to Nauvoo, Illinois.

It was at Nauvoo where Henry heard the Prophet Joseph Smith preach and prophecy and say, "Thus sayeth the Lord." He heard him say that he had finished his work and rolled the burden of the Church onto the Twelve Apostles and that they had to round up their shoulders and bear off the Kingdom or they would be damned. The Apostles were given all the keys, power and authority he held to build up the Kingdom, and they had to do it. He had laid the foundation and they had to build it up.

Henry was nearly fifteen when he saw the Prophet Joseph Smith being taken to the jail at Carthage, Illinois and heard him say, "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am as calm as a summer morning. I have a conscience void of offence to God and all men, and it will yet be said I was murdered in cold blood. " He saw Joseph and Hyrum Smith in their coffins. He knew they were men of God.

Henry was baptized November 9, 1844 by Jona C. Wright at the age of fifteen. Less than a year later, he was just sixteen when he was ordained a Seventy June 29,1845, at Nauvoo, and was a member of the 29th Quorum. He received his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple December 31, 1845.

When the saints began their trip west, Henry was with the first that crossed the Mississippi to leave Nauvoo. He joined the Camp at Sugar Creek in Iowa, and continued with the Camp to Garden Grove where he helped build the houses and plant the fields for those that were not able to go on that season. Then he went back to Nauvoo to help his father's family start west. They went to Fort Madison, Iowa, just across the river from Nauvoo, where he and his father were taken very ill. His father , Stephen Hales, died at this place October 5th, 1846 and was buried in the City Cemetery on October 7th.

Henry was just getting well when the mob came and made war on the saints that were left. They could hear the canons distinctly. They went on to Garden Grove, Iowa that fall and lived there until the following winter when they returned to Fort Madison where Henry obtained work.

The next year Henry returned to Garden Grove to take care of the stock. His mother married William Thompsen (or Thompson). He took the teams and moved them to Garden Grove where they remained until 1850 when he married Eliza Ann Ewing on the 19th of May.

In the spring of 1851 they started for Salt Lake. His mother died on the plains and was buried at the Ancient Bluff Ruins. They arrived in Salt Lake about the first day of Autumn. He first built a house at Little Cottonwood and lived there until the spring of 1853. At that time he went to Cedar Valley and made his home.

During the Indian troubles Henry helped build two forts. He participated in all the Indian troubles and through the Grasshopper War when flour could not be bought for any price. On January 11, 1857 he married Sarah Jane McKinney, and received his Patriarchal Blessing from John Young on August 27, 1857. He was then called to go to the city to be in readiness to go to Echo Canyon if needed. He was there when the U.S. Commissioners came to investigate the trouble between the people of Utah and the U.S. Government, and he stayed there until the trouble was settled.

Henry lived in Cedar Fort until the fall of 1859 when he removed to Big Cottonwood Canyon and stayed until 1861. Then he moved to Weber Valley and made a farm at Enterprise, Morgan County. He and his brother, Stephen, were two of the first farmers in Enterprise.

Henry and Isaac Bowman were among the first school teachers in Enterprise. He was chosen and served as Counselor to Bishop Charles Peterson. He was also road commissioner and laid out most of the roads in the county. While at Enterprise, at high water, the Weber River cut his farm in two and carried about ten acres of the best land away. Soon after, the railroad took a strip and they cut in the ditches. On October 14, 1872, he was sealed in the Endowment House to Jane Spencer Hall. He lost six crops to grasshoppers, so in 1873 he sold out and moved back to Cedar Valley.

In Cedar Valley Henry and his family rented a farm and ran a stock ranch until the fall of 1877 when they moved to Laketown in Millard County. There they entered and fenced a quarter section of land, farmed and raised stock and sheep until 1891 when they moved to Deseret, Millard County.

Henry was ordained a High Priest in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Fillmore and he was Presiding Elder of Laketown until he moved to Deseret. He was appointed one of a committee of three to complete the Deseret meeting house and continued until it was completed. He was set apart as Counselor to Bishop Milton Moody and continued in that calling until the reorganization of the wards on November 22, 1898. At that time he was set apart as Counselor to Bishop Frank Hinckley until he resigned on account of ill health and could not see when out after dark. He was ordained a Patriarch by John Taylor assisted by Reed Smoot and Ira N. Hinckley.

Henry had the privilege of entertaining in his home President Wilford Woodruff and his wife at two different times. Also Owen Woodruff and his wife at the same time. A number of times he entertained in his home President Lorenzo Snow, wife Jennie, and a son LeRoy. He also entertained President Joseph F. Smith several times, along with two of his wives and two of his sons, Hyrum M. and Joseph Fielding Smith. Others that were entertained included Apostles Reed Smoot, his wife and son; George 0. Cannon; Francis M. Lyman and wife; Anthon H. Lund; Heber J. Grant; John W. Taylor; Henry George Teasdale; Orson F . Whitney and Charles W. Pemose as well as several of the First Seven Presidents of Seventy, B. H. Roberts; Rulon S. Wells, and Joseph McMurrin.

Henry was the father of nine children by his wife Eliza Ann Ewing and the father of fifteen children by his wife Sarah Jane McKinney.

Henry William Hales died June 25, 1909 of heart trouble, following an illness of a week, while visiting in Woods Cross, Utah. He was buried in Deseret, Millard County, Utah.