John Haeles of Staines, yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II. Probably the same person as:
John Hales (sic) of Stanes co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.
Joseph Heal, Distiller, and 17th century member of meeting maybe the same man as Joseph Hale of Staines and Debora his wife.
Richard Heale, Distiller 17th century member of meeting, donated £10 for the building of the first meeting house . Probably the same man as Richard Heales (sic) of Uxbridge co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.Richard Haels (sic) of Uxbridge. Probably the same man as Richard Hale or Haile, married to Debra, collarmaker repeatedly prosecuted for attendance at meeting, mentioned on the indenture for land for Uxbridge meeting dated 1692. 35 Charles II prosecuted for meeting and for allowing a meeting at the George. A lesson for every genealogist in the variey of spellings people used for their surnames in previous centuries.
John Hayward, shoemaker from Uxbridge, father of Rebecca Hayward.
Rebecca Haward or Hayward (1660-1704/5)
Born in Uxbridge, the daughter of a shoemaker, she was married in January 1680 to Francis Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson from South Shields, Durham, at Devonshire House, London, in a Quaker ceremony. She moved to New York City with her husband. In New York, Francis was a merchant and became a freeman of the city in 1683. Together the couple had four chidren: Francis II (born 25 November 1684 at New York City), John, and two daughters named Rebecca, one dying shortly after birth. Francis I died 15 July 1688 and was buried in Long Island, New York. (Details from biographical statement here.)
By a warrant dated 1683, William Penn gave Richardson a lot in Philadelphia. After her husband's death, Rebecca and her two children went to Philadelphia to claim the land on behalf of the children. She met and married Edward Shippen, (1639-1712) a wealthy Quaker, in 1689, who later became the mayor of Philadelphia. Died 1704/5 at Philadelphia. She had at least one child with Edward Shippen, Elizabeth Shippen born 20 Oct 1691 who died on 8 August 1692 at Boston, MA [Shippen genealogy]
Thomas Hubbard, donated £2 for the building of the first meeting house.
James Hutchins, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.
John Hyder, cordwainer and 17th century member of meeting
John Hudson of Uxbridge, bricklayer and builder, mentioned on the 1692 indenture, and in the minutes as the builder of the first meeting house, who contributed funds to the second built in 1755.
Hull Family
The Hull family was large and prolific, with many interests in the life of the meeting and the town for over 150 years. Having experimented with various ways of presenting the information, this overview section includes a generational view of the Hulls (see below) and then their individual entries are in alphbetical order. This information comes from the Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920 by Edward H. Milligan, the article on the history of the Quakers in Uxbridge by L.B. Sutherland published in the local history magazine Uxbridge Record in 1976, and the History of Uxbridge Quakers by Celia Trott, and is therefore not original research. As I confirm details independently, I shall mark these as such, as I have already found some conflicts in the various printed sources.
Generation One
Thomas Hull I (1665-1737)
Generation Two
Thomas Hull II (1696-1778) married firstly in 1724 Jane (1700-1746) then married secondly in 1764 Elizabeth Cook (1712-1783).
Generation Three
Thomas Hull III (1724-1797) married in 1749, Mary Cockbolt (1723-1794)
John Hull (1727-1789) married in ? Rebecca Goring (1730-1787)
Generation Four
No issue of John Hull.
Sons and daughters of Thomas Hull (1724-1797) and Mary his wife:
Mary Hull (1751-1819) married in 1783 John Smith (1758-1831).
Thomas Hull IV (1753-1760), died aged 7 years.
John Hull (1755-1816) married 1780 Anna Ashby of Shillingford (1759-1843)
Joseph Hull (1757-1795) married 1794 Ann Skidmore, but died a year later.
Samuel Hull (1764-1819) married 1789 Felicity Stark (1769-1792), and secondly in 1796 married Ann Fowler (born?)
William Hull (1768-1840) married 1794 Jenny Warner (1769-1845)
Generation Five
No issue of Thomas Hull
Children of John Hull (1755-1816) and Anna his wife:
Thomas Hull VI (1782-1820)
Anna Hull (1783-1843)
Charlotte Hull (1786-1819)
Mary Hull (1787-1846) married in 1808 Richard Fell (1782-1845)
Jane Hull (1798-1842) married on 18 September 1823 John Fell (1786-1865)
Children of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Felicity his wife:
Elizabeth Dymond Hull (1790-1819)
Thomas Hull VII (1791-1819)
Children of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Ann Fowler his wife:
Catherine (1797-1798). Died as an infant.
Samuel Hull II (1797-1880)
John Fowler Hull (1800-1825)
Children of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jenny his wife:
John Hull (1795-1850) married Mary Rutter and went to Cheltenham
Mary Hull (1797-1834)
Rebecca Hull (1798-?) married 1822 John Fowler
Anna Hull (1800-?)
Henry Hull I (1805-1849) married in 1835 Jane Edmonds
Eliza Hul (1807-1841)
Edward Hull (1809-1843)
William Hull II (1814-1855) married in 1851 Anna Wagstaff (1821-1890) of New York.
Generation Six
Children of Mary Hull (1787-1846), daughter of John Hull (1755-1816) and Richard Fell (1782-1845):
Three sons. One died in infancy.
One son was called John Hull Fell (1810-1854) married Elizabeth and had one son Richard. All three died within a few days of each other in Forfar, in 1854.
Anna Hull Fell (1809-1839) married in 1835 Henry Pease from Darlington, later an MP.
Children of Rebecca Hull (1798-?), daughter of William Hull (1768-1840) and John Fowler:
John Fowler (1826-1864) who married Elizabeth Pease of Darlington.
Children of Henry Hull I (1805-1849), son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jane his wife:
Elizabeth Jane (1836-1909) married in 1861 Henry Warner of Ratcliff
Thomas Hull (1838-?) went to Cirencester
William Hull (1840-?) married ? in 186?
Edmund Hull ?
Anna Hull (1841-?)
Rebecca Hull (1843-1877) married 1873 Alfred Neild
Henry Hull (1845-1881)
Mary Hull (1846-?)
Catherine Isabella Hull (1847-?)
John Hull (1849-?)
Children of William Hull I (1814-1855), son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Anna his wife:
William Hull III (1855-1927)
Samuel Hull (1855-1856)
Generation Seven
Children of Anna Hull Fell (1809-1839) and Henry Pease her husband:
Henry Fell Pease (1838-1896)
Children of John Hull Fell and his wife Elizabeth Bowes:
Richard, died 1854, a few days before his father and mother
Mary Jane Fell, Anna Fell and Charlotte Hull Fell
Individual entries
Elizabeth Jane Hull (latterly Elizabeth Warner)(1836-1909) daughter of Henry Hull (1805-1849) and Jane Edmonds(1808-1882), married in 1861 Henry Warner (1837-1896) of London, brassfounder. There were four sons and six daughters. Her daughter Elsie (b1873) married Philp Bastin as his second wife.
Henry Hull (1805-1849) mealman and banker, was the son of William Hull (b1768) and Jenny Warner. He entered the family corn milling business and was also active in the Uxbridge Old Bank, with his cousin, Samuel. He married in 1835 Jane Edmonds (1808-1882), daugher of Thomas Edmonds of High Wycombe. There were four sons, one of whom was born after his death, and five daughters.
John Hull (1755-1816)
was the eldest son of Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt. He entered and extended the corn milling business started by his father. He married Anna Ashby (1759-1843) daughter of Robert Ashby of Shillingford. There was one son and four daughters. He was much loved in Uxbridge, having been a leading light in the Auxiliary Bible Society, having started many schools for industry and the poor, and having many friends in the Society of Friends.
Became president of the free school on the resignation of Thomas Clarke in 1812. Expressed his intention of willing the interest on £600 to the free school and the girls school, and although he did not incorporate this into his will, his widow saw that it was made good. Founded a school in Aylesbury on the Lancasterian model. He was regarded as the father of the auxiliary Bible Society in Uxbridge, formed in 1811. All the local churches participated in this and they were proud to say that none was excluded, and none excluded itself.
Visited Burton with Henry Hull from the US in 1811, to stay at John Yeardleys.
Thomas Scattergood's journal mentions going to Uxbridge to stay with his friend John Hull. The Hulls were also friendly with Elizabeth Fry and her family.
He died in Uxbridge in 1816, and he was eulogised in the 1818 Redford and Riches History of Uxbridge.
John Hull (1795-1850) mealman, corn merchant was born in Uxbridge, son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jenny Warner, daughter of Tomson Warner (1738-1816). He was described as a coal merchant in 1837. He married Mary Rutter, daughter of Joseph Rutter of Tottenham. There were no children but he wrote several improving pamphlets including: The philanthropic repertory of plans and suggestions for improving the conditions of the labouring poor (1835). He died in Cheltenham.
John Fowler Hull (1800-1825) son of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Ann Fowler (1760-1808) seems to have been a most remarkable person. Unlike all his relatives, he didn't go into the milling business or the bank, but studied languages. In the long and very reverent obituary which appeared in the Orientalist, T. Grimes from Coclchester, a long-time friend of John Fowler Hull, says that while still at school he caught the bug of learning languages and used to get up at three or four o'clock in the morning to study.
When he had finished school at the Quaker school in Epping, he was at a loss to know what to do. Sadly, he lost his elder siblings and father in a very short space of time, and so came into a considerable amount of money, which he then decided to use in the pursuit of his love of languages.
He learned 30 languages, including many more obscure ones (for an Englishman of his age) like Bengali, Sanskrit, Malayan, Coptic, Ethiopian, and he corresponded in Latin with his friends. Between 1820 and 1822 he divided his time between Uxbridge and Paris, where he had a number of language tutors. He had the money to travel widely, and he did so, collecting manuscripts and books as he travelled, many of whic he bequeathed to the British Museum. He died in India, on one of his travels to learn languages, and Mr Grimes doesn't seem able to praise the character and the charm of this man highly enough. "However great his atainments in learning were, they were equalled, if not excelled, by a uniformly kind, amiable, and unassuming idsosition, perhaps never surpassed by any other individual. His company was enlivening by a ready and playful wit. His generosity was unlimitedl and being in the enjoyment of a considerable income, he was able to dispense in his bounty with a liberal hand. Few applications were ever made to him on behalf of the indigent, the unfortunate or the deserving without succuss. The poor in his neighbourhood have cause long to remember him, while many charitable institutions have not escaped his notice and liberality...."
Mary Hull (latterly Mary Fell) (b1788)
daughter of John Hull (b1755) and Anna Ashby, married Richard Fell in 1808, of Uxbridge, flour factor. She went travelling in the ministry. She had two surviving children, John Hull Fell and Anna Hull Fell, who married Henry Pease, brother of the first Quaker MP in 1835. Mary's grandson, Henry Fell Pease (1838-1896) became the Mayor of Darlington and a benefactor of Uxbridge Boys School.
Rebecca Hull (latterly Rebecca Fowler) (1798-1842)daughter of William Hull (1768-1840) married John Fowler in 1822, of Melksham, wine Merchant. Her son John Fowler was an inventor and engineer (shown left)who tried to help the Irish during the potato famine, by developing a plough which could drain land for cutivation.
He married Elizabeth Pease of Darlington, daughter of the first Quaker MP, Joseph Pease. The link between the Hulls and Elizabeth Fry was through John Fowler, whose mother-in-law, nee Emma Gurney, was Elizabeth Fry's cousin. There was another connection through the Pease family, because Joseph Pease's neice married a Fry.
The links betwen the Hull, Fowler, Fell, Pease and Gurney family are so many and numerous that many people appear in the family tree more than once, marrying into the connected family in their own right, and having brothers or sisters who also married into the family. As Quakers were only supposed to marry Quakers until 1860, it is hardly surprising that there were multiple connections between the same group of families.
Samuel Hull (1764-1819)
was the son of Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt. With his brothers he went into the corn milling business which was started by his father. He married Fidelity Stark (1769-1792) daughter of Thomas Stark of Fordingbridge. There was one son and one daughter. He married secondly Ann Fowler (1760-1808) daughter of Thomas Fowler of Melksham mercer and clothier. The family lived at Dragonfield, which was later the home of Cecil Sharp.
Samuel Hull (1798-1880) banker, was son of Samuel Hull (b.1764) and Ann Fowler. About 1820 the Uxbridge bank which had been in the Mercer and Norton Families was transferred to the Hulls and the Smiths, another Quaker milling family in the town.
Thomas Hull (1724-1797) mealman, came from Rickmansworth. He was the son of Thomas Hull and Jane Hull. He had a brother, John Hull (1727-1789) who married Rebecca Goring
(1730-1787). As far as we know this John had no children.
In 1750 Thomas (b1724) married Mary Cockbolt, daughter of John Cockbolt of Uxbridge and Mary Cockbolt. They had a big family, si
x sons (one who died young) and two daughters. He came to Uxbridge with a wife and sons, and a letter of recommendation from Rickmansworth Meeting. He settled in Uxbridge as a mealman and corn miller after he got married and he was there when he died in 1797.In 1788-9 when the town failed to raise the money for a plan to widen the high street, demolish the then market house and erect a new one, he lent the town £2000: "for the purpose of pulling down the market house and certain other buildings, widening the road and rebuilding the market house". That market house is the one which stands in the centre of Uxbridge today.
William Hull (1768-1840)
youngest son of the above Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt.
He was a mealman like his father, and with his brothers entered the corn milling business started by his father.
Married Jenny Warner in 1794, daughter of Tomson Warner (1738-1816) of London. He was living at Uxbridge at the time of his death in 1840
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