HEBBORN FAMILY HISTORY & NEWS - December 2001.

22nd DECEMBER 1907.

On this day, Joseph Hebborn [J050] married Alice Harriet Harris at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Oxford. His niece Joan Hebborn fondly remembers Joseph. Her father William Henry Hebborn [J052] was Joseph’s brother, and her mother was Olive Harris. [See gallery]

Joan also has happy memories of her grandfather Joseph Hebborn [H040], who was baptised at St Thomas, Oxford in 1861. He married Alice Green on 12th July 1886. His parents were Joseph Heborne, Hebborn or Ebborne [G007] and Sarah Darling. They were married on 16th November 1851 at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford. Initial attempts to find the marriage failed as Joseph was recorded as ‘Ebborne’. I am very grateful to Fiona Caskey for finding the entry.

Joan remembers her grandfather was a coalman, but once the days work was done, he was always spotlessly clean. He achieved his immaculate appearance despite living in a house without electricity. His wife Alice died at the age of 61 in 1929. Joseph died in January 1935 aged 73. He was still living at 1 Taylor’s Buildings, where he and Alice had lived since at least 1898. Joseph and Alice were buried at Holy Trinity Oxford. [See the picture gallery for a photo of Alice Hebborn nee Green]

This branch of the family proudly remembers that Joseph Hebborn was a Freeman of the City of Oxford, though there seemed to be some confusion as to which one. Reference to the Register of Freeman of the City shows that Joseph Hebborn [G007] was made a Freeman on 29th July 1842. He was sponsored by John Simmons Jnr. having served his apprenticeship as a cordwainer; he was now free to pursue his business within the precincts of the City of Oxford.

This was Joseph Heborne, baptised at St Peter le Bailey, Oxford on 8th October 1820. He was the son of William Heborn [F007] (1784-1858), a shoemaker and his wife Elizabeth Boucher. This shows that father and son followed the same trade. It also indicates that William was almost certainly the child of William and Mary Heborn of Garsington whose family was involved with boot and shoe making.

By the mid 1850’s Joseph seems to have left the leather trade, and emerges as a carter of coal, in which his son and grandson were to follow him. He died in 1881 aged 60 and was buried at Holy Trinity, Oxford on 7th February. Eight years later Sarah was also laid to rest at Holy Trinity.

My special thanks to Joan Hebborn’s niece Fiona Caskey for converting the wonderful photographs to digital images. To Joan Williams for her tireless efforts in researching this branch of the family. To Jenny Hebborn who first set me on the trail of the ‘Garsington Hebborns’. Very special thanks to Joan Hebborn of Cowley, Oxford for her fascinating reminiscences, which are so important in family history. Our insight into the lives of your uncle and granddad are greatly enriched by your memories, and those wonderful photos from your family album.

The numbers in square brackets after names help to identify the person recorded in the Hebborn Family Study. As you will see from this months feature, things get a bit confusing when you have three succeeding generations of Josephs, especially when two married an Alice!
John Hebborn.

See Family Tree Chart  H040.