Thomas HEARN [18036]
 Research Notes:
Thomas was living at Castle Gate St Harwich ref the Will of Capt Thomas Hearn Snr.
He is tentatively taken to be Thomas Hearn III refered to below.
Liveing Archive: 3677 - 3680
Oxford and Cambridge Club
Pall Mall SW1
34 Tite st
Chelsea SW
2 Feb 1928
Dear Mr Liveing
It is most kind of you to give me the copy of the splendid Liveing pedigree. Your nephew also suggested that I should write to his father, who has sent me his copy to look at. It is gratifying to find kinsman who are interested in genealogy, and able as well as willing to help. My great uncle Ralph Cleghorn seized and lost a book containing the Hearn pedigree, which I am reconstructing from family papers, tradition, and the registers. My mother would have been very much interested in your researches, had she been alive - she was the youngest daughter of Thomas Cleghorn, and a fourth cousin of yours. I add a little information for the Liveing pedigree. I have only met the Archie Napier's a few times, but I had no idea that the giants Charles and Sandy were my 5th
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cousins! The "Herne" pedigree, I am afraid, is rather in a tangle! Is it all in one script? It looks to me as if it were compiled at Nayland - the compiler knows all about my great aunts - not so much about the two elder brothers. Now my great grandmother, Mary Ann (Hearn) Cleghorn died, I think at Nayland, in 1840: I don't think Eliz. Hearn Cleghorn married Aggio (not Aggis) before 1846 - and Phillis married James Bruce in June 1856. Could it have been compiled by the widow (Cath Mary) of Edw Liveing, who was 2nd cousin of my great grandmother, and who lived, I believe, at Nayland? It looks to me as if it were confused family tradition - Thomas H. the I married and Ann Clements:
Thomas II married Eleanor (Townsend?)
George Ward married Elizabeth Hearn, 1751.
Joseph Deane married Eleanor Hearn, 1750, & had son William.
(no Sophia appears in Mr Carlyon-Hughes ' very big Deane pedigree)
Mary Hearn married Edmund Hunt, 1763
William Hearn married Susanna Annis, 1756
William Hearn & Elizabeth were the parents of George Poulson H born 1775, and of Maddison Hunt H born in 1777.
George Hearn was brother probably, not father, to most of the above (bap 1735,? buried 1785)
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I knew that Oliver Williams was a cousin of my grandfather's (he belonged to the same stock as Oliver Cromwell) but the pedigree shows me how, if it is to be relied on. My grandfather Cleghorn married Sarah Chisnall of Hadleigh: I wonder if the Chisnall's, or Orford's, come into your Hadleigh notes at all? Your collection of Harwich letters, etc sounds most interesting, and I shall look forward to any scraps of information. Some of it may not be very edifying perhaps - Thomas Hearn III was a terrible fellow, and a great trial to all his relations. "Aunt White" had to retire to Coggeshall to get away from him! When I return from Harwich, I will send you any thing I may happen to find, with the latest accounts of the seven pretenders to be the parents of Sarah wife of Robert Liveing! Mrs Carlyon-Hughes (The Chaseway, Dovercourt) with whom I am
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going to stay, is connected with the Deanes. Her son Basil is writing a history of Harwich, and I am sure he would be most grateful for anything bearing on the subject - social or topographical - especially owners and situation of houses, etc.
I am glad to hear that Bob Brewster is still alive - he was most helpful to me when I was there some years ago.
With many thanks
Yours sincerely
Hedley Hope- Nicholson
Ref: Edward H T Liveing [445].
Other Records
1. Census: England, 7 Jun 1841, St Nicholas Harwich ESS. Thomas is recorded as aged 55 of independant means born in Essex
2. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, St Nicholas Harwich ESS. Thomas is recorded as a lodger unmarried aged 68 of independendant means born Harwich.
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