The Hales Newsletter

Motto: United Force is Stronger

NEW SERIES Autumn 2002 Vol. 7. No. 3.

Membership

The Hales Chronicles on the internet

News and Views

Melvin Donald Hales

Kent County, Delaware Will

Kent County, Delaware Deeds

Monthly Meeting Extracts – Society of Friends – Duck Creek, Delaware

Will Extract – Robert Atwater of Charing, Kent, England

In Memoriam

Edna Violet Hales Miller

Extracts from State Trials

Alma Charles Hales Family Home

Research Notes

Visitation Pedigrees, Harl. MSS 6093

English Nobility (For dating purposes)

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.

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.

The Hales Newsletters, both New Series and Old Series are now available on the Internet. The index for these newsletters should be read to determine which newsletter contains information you desire to read. The index for the New Series is updated with the content of all New Series Newsletters and with new newsletters as they are published. Please check this index to determine the content of each newly-published newsletter.

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A REQUEST – Let all of your Hales relatives know of our on-line Hales Newsletters. We need some word-of-mouth advertisement.

Also ask them to "talk it up." We need to get the message out so that we get more "News and Views" submissions for later newsletters.

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The internet version of the Hales Chronicles is the basis for the Third Edition to be printed in 2005. This on-line version is the master copy of the Hales Chronicles and it contains all information that I have and all corrections that have been made since the Second Edition. It is updated on a weekly basis. Many additions and changes have been made since the Second Edition was published. I work on these files weekly.

A copy of these internet files can be purchased on a CD (in Word for Windows HTML format) for a cost of $10 postpaid.

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NEWS AND VIEWS

Since the last newsletter I have received the bound copies of The Old Series of the Hales Newsletter -- second edition. These books have been furnished to The Family History Library, The Library of Congress, The Allen County Public Library, The Library of The Society of Genealogists, and The Center for Kentish Studies at Maidstone, Kent, England.

I have also bound Volumes 1 through 6 of The New Series. The above libraries already have all issues of the New Series – they can bind them into a book if they so desire.

I have discovered a 1981 clipping from The Oregonian, a Portland, Oregon newspaper which is reproduced here.

SISTER, BROTHER SET SIGHTS ON APPOINTMENTS TO ANNAPOLIS

"I believe there has been a case in Oregon where two sons from the same family were nominated to the academy," Miss Hales said, "But I’ve been told this is the first time a son and daughter have been nominated from the same family in Oregon."

Both nominees said they have had their sights set on Navy careers since they were children, because of the father’s association with the Navy and Navy Reserve, and because of their exposure to European nations when their father served as a Fulbright exchange professor at a university in Belgium.

The family moved from Ohio to Oregon in 1979, and the senior Hales is now a professor of education at Portland State University. Hales and his wife, Annie, have one other daughter, Lydia, 12.

His son said that if he is appointed to the June class at the Naval Academy, he would like to study in the fields of computer science and nuclear submarine research. He is now a senior at Hillsboro High School.

His sister, a graduate of Athens High School in Ohio, is interested in operational systems and tactical engineering. "This means the scientists develop the new systems, and those in tactical engineering make the new equipment work on shakedown cruises," she explained.

And what does the mother of the nominees think of all the naval action around her home – considering that she comes from a long line of Army ancestors?

She just smiles, strokes the family poodle, and says: "We’ve always been very proud of our children."

MELVIN DONALD HALES

It was a cold and dreary day in Junction, Piute County, Utah, when to my knowledge I made my first appearance on this earthly hemisphere as a mortal being on January 3rd, 1910. I was privileged to have, to my estimation, the most wonderful earthly parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Heber Hales, that has been brought forth in any dispensation since the beginning and creation of this earth.

My first recollection of my childhood was during a period of time that my father was Marshall and it was one of his duties to ring the church bell at 9 p.m. every night signifying that it was curfew time and that all youngsters should be home. This obligation he delegated to us children. There were five of us children at this time: Lorin, Ernest, Wildon, myself and Jesse. Jesse was only two years old at this time so Lorin and I paired off and Ernest and Wildon.

We had many varied experiences during our childhood as some of the Ute Indians weren't too friendly and had maintained an hostile attitude toward the white settlers in the Junction area which my Grandfather Hales had been instrumental in settling. While I encountered no violence personally, some of my Father's relatives were massacred. Listening to my parents and friends discussing many of the interesting events that took place with the Indians never failed to fill us with dread and I was more than a little reluctant to retire at night.

"When I was five years old we migrated to Ogden, Utah. We traveled in a sheep wagon and hay rack. The two wagons carried all our earthly belongings. We led our only milk cow which had a calf. We had to keep the calf tied up also as every opportunity that the cow had she would hide the calf thus causing a delay. It took us 30 days to make the trip which can now be made in a very few hours. Arriving in Ogden practically penniless, my Father hired out as a farm worker to a fellow in Manilla, Utah. We only stayed there one summer and then returned to Ogden.

The following winter my Father was seriously injured and he was crippled for the rest of his life. I was only six years old at the time. My Father was working on a construction project, adding a four story addition to the Ogden Packing and Provision Company. It was night and he had taken the elevator to the third floor for some material. Being away only a moment from the elevator he carried the material right in without checking and it being so dark he was unable to see someone had moved the elevator up to the fourth floor, consequently he fell down the shaft three stories and lit on a concrete floor. It broke nearly every bone in his body and for the first year in the hospital no one figured he would live. Miraculously because of the clean life he had lived and the good health he had enjoyed, he partially recovered.

At this time we lived on the site of the old university site in Ogden above Harrison and 30th. This covered 80 acres. The St.. Benedict Hospital now covers part of the old farm. We had some pigs so now it became necessary that we children run the farm. Consequently Lorin and I would run the ranch two weeks while Wildon and Ernest attended school and then we would alternate. This made it impossible for us to receive any resemblance of a good education, but I never regretted this inconvenience as I was able to obtain more knowledge through experience than I could of possibly obtained from books. My Father and Mother taught me many things that have proved invaluable to my success in later life. The Lord has blessed me so abundantly for this small sacrifice during my childhood and early youth.

We finally moved to the city in 1924. We lived at 3725 Washington Avenue in South Ogden and attended the Burch Creek School. I worked nights at the Uintah Dairy washing bottles. I was so small I had to stand on boxes to reach the tank. In the mornings before school I worked on one of the delivery routes getting up at four o'clock in the morning and delivering milk to the homes through all the snow. It was here I first learned to drive a truck which later proved very valuable to me.

My father had a truck so he was fortunate to get a job at the Old Banner Ice Cream Company situated on the bank of the Ogden River and Washington Avenue. I went along with him when it was possible as it was very difficult for him to get around. He picked up cream at the farmers in the Kanesville area and brought it in to make ice cream.

At the age of 16 I was able to get a job as truck driver on their milk route in Pleasant View and Willard, Utah. I picked up 10 gallon cans of raw milk and brought it in. They had an old model-T truck and it was continually breaking down. I believe it gave me a complex because to this day I wouldn't own a Ford.

About this time my brother Ernest, who lived in Bisbee, Arizona, wrote us to come down there as he thought he could get us all jobs in the mines. I was quite young, going on only 17 years of age, so I was able to get a job at the Phelps Dodge Store in Lowell and stayed there one year. This was a mining town and we encountered many unpleasant experiences so the following spring we returned to Ogden. I had to give up school permanently now as my Father's health was gradually deteriorating. I found a job as apprentice at the Union Pacific Railroad roundhouse in Ogden. I worked here for nearly a year. At this time my Father’s health made it difficult for him to work steady so he started peddling fruit into Wyoming. Whenever he was ill I would take over and make the trip for him.

The Safeway Store in Evanston, Wyoming purchased quite a bit of fruit from him and finally persuaded my Dad to haul all their groceries from Salt Lake City for them, so I purchased myself a 1½ ton Chevy stake body truck and went into business with him. Our business expanded into Kemmerer and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Then to all stores in Utah, and some in Idaho. We now were forced to take out a franchise as a common truck carrier, it being the grand-daddy or original truck line permit to be issued in the State of Utah. We now branched out into California and operated approximately 15 refrigerated trucks carrying all the dairy products manufactured in Utah and some from Idaho and Wyoming.

During this time I began going to the Weber Gymnasium and wrestling. Because of my strength I became quite adept at it and held several championships. I was wrestling one night at the First Ward on a Smokeless Smokers Social. I met Nondas and we started to go together. She was a beautiful girl and was proportioned in the right places and very popular, so this was the beginning of a tempestuous courtship and romance.

I was only home one or two nights a week so I was working under a handicap with the rest of the boys. Inevitably I would always find someone there ahead of me, so I had to resort to some means of equalizing the situation. So I proceeded to go to the head of the waiting line and pick Nondas up and carry her to my truck, which was my only means of transportation. It must of been quite a sight to see me coming into her driveway in one of those huge refrigerator trucks, as ours were about the only ones those days. People would sure stop and stare. Needless to say this caused many fights, but the results were such that they soon became discouraged and I had free sailing when I was in town.

At the age of 20, our business had developed to the extent that it was necessary for us to move to Salt Lake City to handle it efficiently. Nondas and I discussed the effects of this new move on our lives which would almost make it impossible for me to see her more than once or twice a month so we decided to get married. We went to see Bishop Garner regarding our recommends for a Ternple Marriage. He informed me he was sorry to hear I was moving as he had me slated for a Mission. Naturally I was depressed about this but I would no longer be in his ward so he issued us recommends and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple June 25, 1930.

We moved to Salt Lake at 836 South West Temple and lived there nearly one year when I was selected to handle the Los Angeles division of the truck line. This was a very hectic life as the trucks were continually breaking down out in the desert due to the bad roads in those days.

We were now encroaching upon the railroads’ business to the extent that they put pressure on the State Legislature to pass bills to curtail it . They had the foresight to see that if trucking continued it would have a definite effect on their business because of the increased efficiency and time saved. So they had their lawyers draw up tax bills which were pressured through, costing our truck line so much money that it made it prohibitive to operate. We fought them in the Utah courts for over a year, but their money lasted longer than ours and we finally were forced to give up the ship. We took our equipment and moved to California. To Give you an idea as to the magnitude of our business, just recently a firm offered us $l00,000 if we could reactivate our franchise. Upon checking at the State Capitol we found out the time limitations laying idle had expired so all was lost .

We competed with the California Truck lines for a short period of time and found it rather difficult to get started here, so we abandoned the attempt and the Folks moved back to Salt Lake and we stayed on in Los Angeles. I promoted a job at Chrysler motors where I worked for nearly two years and then my Father and Mother returned to California and we entered into the construction business. This turned out to be very fruitful as I gained a magnitude of experience in a new field, and it proved to be one of the chief essentials responsible for my success of today.

I stayed with this trade until I was 31 years old and signed a United States Government contract for Pearl Harbor for a construction job. It had always been my desire to go to the Hawaiian Islands and finally my dream was to be a reality. I sailed on February 13, 1941. I left alone on the Matsonia to establish a home so I could send for m.y family. I was successful in locating a rental so Nondas sold everything and left with the children on April 12, 1941. I rode out on the Pilot boat to meet them and it was a thrill I shall never forget as I placed flower leis around their necks and welcomed them to the beautiful Island of Oahu. Two months later we moved to the Navy Housing at Pearl Harbor and remained there until we sailed back. to the mainland.

Early on the Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, one of the most momentous events in World History took place at Pearl Harbor where we lived. I was called to work that morning to cut a doorway between the Commander’s office and was eating breakfast when intense firing was heard outside. We stepped out on the lawn and witnessed planes flying very low over the area with machine guns firing. Noticing the red sun on the wings we failed to attach any significance to it as they had the red and blue maneuvers periodically. They were so low that we could see them smiling and waved at them, they in turn waved back. Little realizing we were being attacked by the Japanese, we stood out there in full view and I will always feel that the Lord protected us from harm as the Zero planes shot everything they could see moving and, we were a perfect target.

Then the Japanese dive bombers came in and they in turn were followed by the high flying bombers. It left the Army and Navy installations and bases in chaos. A complete blackout resulted and martial law was declared. Many exciting and interesting events took place during this period of time, but time and space won’t permit me to mention them. Rest assured we shall never forget this experience.

We remained here for a little over a year after the attack and we were then able to procure a transfer to the mainland. I was assigned to Farragut Base on the Idaho and Canadian border.

We sailed on December 22, 1942 aboard the S. S. Henderson, the flag ship of this convoy. They refused to let me stay on the top deck with my wife and children; they assigned me to a bunk down in the hold. They did permit me to spend Christmas dinner with my wife and family though. We spent part of the day down in the sick bay where they were giving a short program for the wounded aboard ship.

Arriving in San Francisco, we were finally able to arrange transportation to Los Angeles. The train was blacked out and cold. We nearly froze and had a very miserable trip. Landing in Los Angeles we immediately took a taxi to Dad and Mothers in Maywood. I will always remember how thrilled and happy we were to be reunited again. Mother and Dad could do nothing but cry. I believe they felt doubtful if they would ever see us again.

We stopped in Ogden on the way to the base and it was decided Nondas and the children would remain there while I continued on to get located and see if housing was available. It was awful cold when I arrived at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where I was to transfer to Farragut. Upon alighting from the bus my nostrils froze shut, my hair stiff and I was nearly petrified. A lady came in the station and remarked to someone how warm was today as it was only 18 below zero. Right there I decided this was no place for me so I immediately arranged for a transfer for me back to Pearl Harbor. I picked up the family on the way at Ogden preparatory to arranging for them to live in Maywood until my return.

While in Maywood I accidentally contacted the Personnel Dept. at Roosevelt Base and they persuaded me to stay there. T'hey in turn requested my paper back from Pearl Harbor. I remained here nearly a year and was transferred up to the Navy Ordinance Test Station at China Lake, California. I was Superintendent of Maintenance and Construction and remained here for the duration of the War. During our stay at this base we nearly lost my wife Nondas. She had a ruptured appendix dnd was given up for dead. It was only through the blessing of the Lord and her faith and health that she was able to survive. She was in the hospital for months and had many major operations during this period.

After the war my position was abolished and we returned to Maywood. I purchased some war surplus lumber and building materials and that was the initial beginning of our home and apartments at 4748 E. 56th Street in Maywood.

For the next five years I contracted in the building business during the days and constructed apartments at night. I then purchased six and one-half acres of ground in La Puente. Nights and weekends I built us a home on this property and we moved there in 1954 for one year. It was too difficult to handle my construction business in Maywood from La Puente, so we moved back.

In 1958 I began construction of our Bowling Alley on the La Puente property and completed it in May of 1959. We then took a vacation to Alaska and moved back to Maywood again.

KENT COUNT DELAWARE WILLS

NEWCASTLE COUNTY DELAWARE DEEDS

September 10, 1723. John Hale(s), of Georges hundred to Stephen Lewis, land in north side of Georges Creek, 250a (250 acres) sold to William Gray, and by his exers (executors) to John Hale(s).

August 22, 1728. John Hales, of Georges hundred, yeoman, to Elias Nandain; "Sutton" on Georges Creek; 300a (300 acres).

MONTHLY MEETING EXTRACTS – SOCIETY OF FRIENDS – DUCK CREEK, DELAWARE

November 16, 1704. The 2^nd meeting of the Duck Creek Society of Friends was on the 16^th of ye 11^th month – January 1705, at which the following names were recorded. Benjamin and John Gumley, Philip England, Robert Ashton, John Hales, Alexander Adams, and 10 others.

May 22, 1706. John Hales representative for Georges Creek at monthly meeting.

March 21, 1711. Certificate of removal for Sarah Hill, from friends in County Antrim, Ireland, received March 21, 1711, by Duck Creek Meeting.

June 7, 1711. John Hales of Georges Creek, and Sarah Hill of same, but late of Ireland. (The certificate is signed by John Hill).

Barthia Hales, daughter of John and Sarah, born August 22, 1716.

Elizabeth Hales, daughter of John and Sarah, born November 17, 1718.

Joseph Hales, son of John and Sarah, born January 27, 1721.

Sarah Hales, daughter of John and Sarah, born February 6, 1723.

August 20, 1723. John Hales appears at monthly meeting at Duck Creek for Georges Creek. (N. B. This is his last appearance. He probably died late in 1723).

July 21, 1724. William Farson and Sarah, the widow of John Hales, declared marriage intentions 1^st time.

August 19, 1724. The same declare intentions 2^nd time. Allowed to proceed.

August 23, 1724. Married August 23, 1724, William Farson of Duck Creek, Kent County, and Sarah Hales, of Georges Creek, New Castle County, Widow. (Signed by John Hales). (Note: This was the widow of John Hales, Sr. The signer was John Hales, Jr.). (No Hales wills in Kent County, Delaware, except Joseph).

September 21, 1741. Ezekiel Nock and Elizabeth Hales declared marriage intentions.

November 18, 1741. The same declaration marriage intentions 2^nd time. Allowed to proceed.

Married March 29, 1748, Joseph Hales and Susanna Farson, widow.

WILL EXTRACT – Robert Atwater of Charing, Kent, England

Will of Robert Atwater of Charing, Esquire. To the children of Joyce HALES and Mary Honeywood, his daughters, wives of Humphrey Hales and Robert Honeywood. His brother’s children. Richard Somer of Canterbury, sometime his servant. Two messuages, lands and tenements in Kenham, his house there in his own occupation, his marsh land called Rowe Marsh in Romney and Walland Marsh to his daughter Joyce Hales and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten. His other messuages and lands in Lenham, Ulcombe and Hedcorne, and lands in Egerton, and a third part of a messuage and lands containing 44 acres purchased of William Gervas in Smarden to his daughter Mary in like manner. Proved 5 May 1565.

(Note: this will places Humphrey and Joyce Hales in Lenham, Kent, England which is located adjoining Frinstead, Boughton Malherbe, and Egerton and is about 7 miles east of Boxley).

IN MEMORIAM

Edna Violet Hales Miller. Edna Violet Hales Miller died July 6, 2002 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. She was born January 13, 1922 at Clarion, Sanpete, Utah the daughter of Joseph William and Annie Christina Hansen Hales. She married James Everett Miller on December 18, 1936.

Our great-grandma was the Greatest! She loved to take us on walks to the park and play with us. Our parents and grand-parents say she used to play with them all the time, too. I guess she has been playing her whole life. She loved bingo and crosswords. In the crossword puzzle of her life a 7 letter word for love would be "Grandma."

She is survived by her husband; two sons: Everett, Twin Falls, Idaho; and Richard, Salt Lake City; four grandchildren, Chad, Todd, Charity, and Jason; three great-grandchildren: Jacoby, Lexie, and Shaedyn; one brother; and one sister. She was preceded in death by her loving parents, one brother, and two sisters.

COLLECTION OF STATE TRIALS

A collection of State Trials and Proceedings Upon High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of Queen Anne to the Present Time, Volume IX. London, 1766.

Trials begin in 1712: Richard Noble for the Murder of John Sayer;

John Matthews for High Treason;

Major John Oneby for the Murder of William Gower;

James Carnegie for the Murder of Charles Earl of Strathmore;

William Hales for false tokens [again!];

John Huggins for the Murder of Mr. Robert Castell;

Thomas Bambridge for the Murder of Mr. Robert Castell [also other trials involving Thomas Bambridge];

William Acton for the Murder of Thomas Bilfs;

William Acton [several more murders];

Richard Francklin for printing and publishing a Letter from the Hague;

John Peter Zenger for printing and publishing a Libel against the Government of New York;

James Annesley for the Murder of Tho. Egglestone;

several trials for assault and for perjury;

William Chetwynd for the Murder of Mr. Thomas Rickets;

Francis Townley for High Treason;

more trials for High Treason: George Fletcher, Thomas Chadwick, Wiliam Battragh, Thomas Theodorus Deacon, John Berwick, David Morgan, Alexander Mac Growther, James Bradfhaw, Sir John Wedderburn, Charles Ratcliffe, Aeneas Mac Donald, others. Text is in pretty good shape, and all trials are fully readable.

The Alma Charles Hales family that lived here are found in The Hales Chronicles as follows:

Born 19 APR 1863 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah the son of Charles Henry HALES and Frances Elizabeth BRUNYER. Married 12 JUL 1886 Susannah Ann Elizabeth HODGSON. She was born 12 SEP 1866 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah the daughter of Allen HODGSON and Susannah Elizabeth KING. Alma Charles HALES died 22 NOV 1932 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah and was buried there on 26 NOV 1932. His wife died 20 JUN 1947 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah and was buried there 23 JUN 1947.

Children:

RESEARCH NOTES.

Source: E.D.P. dated August 26, 1983. The archaeological dig at Hales Hall, near Loddon, is churning up a treasure trove of relics of a bygone age.

Three shoes about 300 years old, and one of which was still whole, were salvaged recently from the depths of the moat, part of which has been dried out to allow the excavations.

The first Hales Hall was built during the 13^th century by Roger de Hales, the nephew of a bishop. Roger left Norwich to build his own empire at Hales.

He married off one of his daughters to a Plantagenet prince and found himself elevated to the ranks of the nobility.

Refer to the original visitation pedigree shown later in this newsletter for this Roger Hales.

Born about 1274 of Norfolk, England or Harwich, Essex, England the son of Ralph de HALES and Demeta le CLAUER. Married about 1299 Alice SKOGAN. She was born about 1277 of Woodchurch, Kent, England.

Children:

M- Edmund de HALES; born about 1307 of Lodden, Hales, Norfolk, England.

F- Jane de HALES; born about 1310 of Lodden, Hales, Norfolk, England.

The more recent Hales Hall was built about the 1480s, enveloping the old hall, by a descent of Roger, Sir James Hobart. For information on this Hales Hall refer to the earlier cited Newsletter.

Source: White’s Directory of Norfolk, 1864. Hales is a scattered village, skirting a green of 66 acres, from 2 to 3 miles S.S.E. of Loddon. Its parish has 325 inhabitants and 980 acres. It was anciently a seat of the Hales family, who had a chapel at the hall, dedicated to St. Andrew. Refer to the earlier cited Newsletter for more information about this chapel.

Stray notes in this directory.

1. Alexander de Hales, styled Doctor Irrefragabilis, who died in 1245, was born here.
2. In 1331, Sir John de Hales was patron.
3. John, son and heir of Sir John, was patron in 1361.

Source: Blomefield’s Topographical History of Norfolk, 1806. Bigot’s Manor, also later called Hales, or Lodden-Hales. Upon the death of Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, this manor came to King Edward I., and was given by King Edward II. to his brother, Thomas de Brotherton (Plantagenet), Earl of Norfolk.

A family who took their name from this town, was early enfeoffed of it, and held it under the Lord Baynard. Roger de Hales and, William, his son, were living in the reign of Henry II. Walter de Hales, in the time of King John; and Sir Roger, son of Walter, in the 34 Henry III (1250). John, son of Sir Roger, in the 22 Edward II (1349). Which Sir Roger, by deed, sans date, confirmed the exchange of lands (between 2 persons) that were held of his fee in Hales; which shows that it was the custom for lords of manors to confirm the purchases. Sir John de Hales, was living 20 Edward III (1347). and by Catherine, (after married to Roger de Wellesham,) was the father of John de Hales, who died s.p. (without issue) in the year 43 Edward III (1259).

On page 355, pedigree number 112 – Gresham.

William Rookwood, Esquire, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hales, brother of Sir Stephen Hales, and had a daughter, Mary (sister and co-heir of William Rookwood, Esquire; whose will was dated 21 October 1474 and was proved 8 November 1474). This Mary was the second wife of James Gresham, of Holt in Norfolk, England, who was living in 1497. This James Gresham was the son of John Gresham, of Gresham in Norfolk, gentleman, and of Holt. Living in 1432, died in 1460.

Another copy of the Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms.

On page 149, in the notes –

February 16, 1688. Will of Mary Hobart of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, spinster, daughter of Sir John Hobart, Baronet, deceased. Mentions my cousin Mrs. Mary Hales, wife of Thomas Hales, Esquire.

On page 198, pedigree of Peter Haydon of Poltimore –

Mentions Joane, daughter of ... Hales of County Kent, wife of William Haydon of Poltimore.

On page 226, will of John Heydon, Esquire of Cadehayes in the parish of Otery

St. Mary, County Devon. Mentions Thomas Hals – relationship not shown.

Page 251. Will of Robert Dynne of Heydon, gentleman. Peter Hales witness to will.

Page 436. 30 December 1586. John Pigeon of Beckham, Gent, to marry Margaret Hales of the same place, single woman.

"Sir Edward Hales, a new proselyte, had accepted a commission of colonel; and directions were given to his coachman to prosecute him for the penalty of 500 pounds, which the law, establishing the tests, had granted to informers. By this feigned action, the king hoped, both from the authority of the decision, and the reason of the thing, to put an end to all questions with regard to his dispensing power. It could not be expected that the lawyers appointed to plead against Hales would exert great force on that occasion: But the cause was regarded with such anxiety by the public, that it has been thoroughly canvassed in several elaborate discourses ... particularly Sir Edward Herbert’s ‘Defence in the State Trials,’ and Sir Robert Atkins’ ‘Enquiry Concerning the Dispensing Power’"

"Before a packed court a carefully prepared case was brought. Sir Edward Hales, a convert to Roman Catholicism, who had accepted a military commission, was sued by his coachman, Godden, for not having complied with the conditions of the Test Act. Hales pleaded a non obstante (notwithstanding), by which the King had dispensed in his case with the obligation to take the test. Herbert, the chief justice, delivered a strongly worded judgement in favor of the defendant, and this was assented to by all his colleagues on the bench except one. The single dissentient, Street, had shown himself so subservient in other matters (to the King James) that his action was regarded as carefully planned to refute the probable suspicion of royal influence."

"Hales’ case was settled in April 1686, and its results were speedily visible. Hitherto the appointment of Roman Catholics had been limited to the army; it was now extended to political, and even to ecclesiastical offices."

"Sir Edward Hales was Lieutenant of the Tower. He was little inclined to treat his prisoners with kindness. For he was an apostate from that church for which they suffered; and he held several lucrative posts by virtue of that dispensing power against which they had protested."

"Sir Edward Hales was Lieutenant during the brief imprisonment of James, Duke of Monmouth, and had him as a lodger. Sir Edward was himself committed to the Tower for treason a few years later." (This was during the reign of William and Mary).

William of Orange is in Britain, the Houses to meet for discussion and business between William and James II.

"The same Gazette which announced that the houses were about to meet contained a notification that Sir Edward Hales, who, as a Papist, as a renegade, as the foremost champion of the dispensing power, and as the harsh gaoler of the Bishop, was one of the most unpopular men in the realm, had ceased to be Lieutenant of the Tower."

"At three in the morning of Tuesday the 11^th of December, James rose, took the Great Seal in his hand, laid his commands on Northumberland not to open the door of the bedchamber till the usual hour, and disappeared through a secret passage; the same passage probably through which Huddleston had been brought to the bedside of the late king. Sir Edward Hales was in attendance with a hackney coach."

Sir Thomas Hales was Vice-warden of the Cinque Ports and Clerk of the Green Cloth, and was given a pension until he could be provided for in office.

Sir Thomas Hales died in 1762.

Original Visitation Pedigrees

As space permits and beginning with this Newsletter I have decided to publish the Original Visitation Pedigrees of the Hales family that I purchased from the British Museum more than 30 years ago.

Many of these pedigrees have been published by the Harleian Society in typescript and in their other works, but some have not.

I have scanned these pedigrees; painted out some of the blotches and marks with white poster paint; re-scanned the cleaned-up version; saved them as jpeg files for use here.

I plan to arrange these visitation pedigrees from the earliest to the latest.

There are variations in spellings in these pedigrees. For example: note on the first pedigree that the spelling of Edmund Hales and Sir John Hales differs from the spelling of their father’s surname, Roger Halys. This Roger Halys is the Roger Hales mentioned earlier in this Newsletter. Note that not all of this Roger Halys or Hales children are included on this visitation pedigree – primarily the females.

There are three lines leaving this page to the left. It is not clear that the earlier or facing page returns the bottom two lines as people named Hales.

(Facing page not in my collection)

Please remind all of your Hales relatives about our web page at:

www.hales.org

It contains all of The Hales Newsletters, both the old and new series, as well as The Hales Chronicles. I would like them to review their information, and if it is not there to provide it to me. I continue to work on the Third Edition of The Hales Chronicles and would like to include them in the planned 2005 publication of it.