I got the following from a relative in Canada:
Dear Steve,
My name is John Haysom. I was born in Portsmouth UK in 1938. I read your family tree research with interest. My Grandfather George, was born in Portsea in 1884 and his father, also George was born there in 1853. That's as far back as I can go. Can you help?
Looking forward to hearing fromm you.
John.
John & Barbara Haysom
Nova Scotia, Canada, B4B 1K1
Here's what I have after some checking back with John.
(24) ??? Haysom (c1825)
Perhaps the son, or grandson, of (22) Henry Pike Haysham (1774), who was born in Swanage and moved to Portsea around 1800. Interestingly, in Dorset his name was spelled Haysham, but in Portsea it was Haysom. Was this simply the clerk using the "usual" spelling?
One of Henry Pike's sons, George Howard, emigrated to America, but he had two others, William (1800) and Henry (1804). William moved to London around 1830, so he's probably out. Henry, I know nothing about.
(25) George Haysom (1853)
A cabinet maker, born in Portsea. In the census of 1881 [this was the only family of this name or anything like it, that were living in Portsea at this time] he was 27 years old, living at No. 45 Havant street, Portsea. His wife was Louisa, age 24, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. John Haysom remembers his grandfather, George Jr., thinking his mother was born in 1853 and resided in St. Georges Square, Portsea. He said her maiden name was Louisa Jane Morey. He said his father was from Britain Street, Portsea, which is just around the corner from St. Georges Sq.
Their children were Georgina, 3, and Lilian A., 8 months. Three years later a son, George, was born.
(26) Georgina Haysom (1878)
(25) George Haysom (1853)
(26) Lilian Haysom (1871)
(25) George Haysom (1853)
(26) George Haysom Jr. (1884)
(25) George Haysom (1853)
The son of George. He was born on 16 June 1884 in Portsea. He married Blanch Gertrude French in about 1910. She was born on 9 January 1884 in Portsea. George died in 1981 in Portsmouth.
There was a George Haysom (1820), age 44, who worked at [or was in] the Kew Lunatic Asylum in 1861. There was also a George Haysom, CC, who lived on Fenchurch street in London in 1908. I don't know where these fit, but here will be good for now.
Author : [City of London] Ornate Invitation Card Title : Banquet at the Guildhall , 1916 Description : [City of London] Ornamental Invitation Card (1916). Invitation to the Banquet at the Guildhall on Thursday November 9th, 1916, Colonel The Right Honorable Sir William Henry Dunn, Kt., Lord Mayor, Major Louis Arthur Newton, C.C. and George Haysom, Esq., C.C., Sheriffs.
"Guildhall Library Committee, 1908. The Rt. Hon. Sir John Charles Bell, Bart., Lord Mayor Mr. George Haysom (Chairman) - from "The Aldermen of the City of London, Temp. Henry III.-1908: With Notes on the Parliamentary..." by Alfred B. (Alfred Beaven) Beaven,
"London: City. - At a dinner of the Library Committee of the City Corporation, held on March 30th, in the art gallery of the Guildhall, the chairman, Mr. George Haysom, stated that the Guildhall Library contained 135,000 volumes and pamphlets, and nearly 6,000 manuscripts, most of them of great value." - from "Library World."
(27) Cyril George Haysom (1912)
(25) George Haysom (1853) (26) George Haysom Jr. (1884)
He was born on 14 Junae 1912 in Portsmouth. He married Mabel Florence Bolt. She was born in September 1910. He died in 1977 in chorleywood.
(27) Unknown Haysom (c1913)
(25) George Haysom (1853) (26) George Haysom Jr. (1884)
(28) John Haysom (1938)
(25) George Haysom (1853) (26) George Haysom Jr. (1884) (27) Unknown Haysom (c1913)
The grandson of George Jr.
John also wrote:
Some 25 years ago, when we were visiting Langton Maltravers in Dorset we spoke to a Walter Haysom - a marvellous old man who was a retired stonemason (we also met his son Trevor, who still operated the quarry). He incidentally was responsible for much of the restoration of the Temple Church in London. By coincidence, he was an amateur geneologist and had a mind-boggling library, which went back to the Rolls of King Henry. Anyway he seemed to think that my branch of the family descended from one of five or six brothers who lived in the Swanage area [probably right]. That one had travelled across the water to Portsea (presumably). And that's about all I know. Walter Haysom sent us to the Dorchester Records Office or Library (I can't remember which). It was there that we uncovered an amazing family tree, researched and produced by a Robert Mansfield Haysom. It began with "John Haysom of Wooland and Ibberton, Co. Dorset. Custodian of the Church Plate 1552 ". It included Sir William Rose Mansfield, GCB, GCSI, DCL, Ist. Lord Sandhurst and later Lady Victoria Alexandrina Spencer, daughter of the 4th. Earl Spencer, marr. 1881. She died 1906. (The current Lord Spencer is of course Princess Diana's brother.). It appears that there were quite a number of Haysoms living in Ringwood, Hampshire in the 17-1800s. I was unable to establish any link between ourselves and this family tree - which is a pity because we might well be related to the future King of England!
Well Steve, that's about that! If you are able to find out anything more about our tree, I would really like to hear from you.
