HEBBORN FAMILY HISTORY & NEWS - February 2002.

18th February 1810

On this day William Heborn [F006], son of John and Elizabeth nee Snow, was baptised at the ancient parish church of St Andrew, Headington, Oxfordshire. William was the youngest of six boys, none of whom lived to be very old. Samuel Hebbon [F001], born 1795 died when he was 4. The next son, John Hebbern [F002] was born in 1796 and lived on 7 years. The third son Joseph Heborn [F003] born 1799 managed to survive 41 years. He married Mary Walker in 1826, and his one known son William Peter Walker Hebborn [G001] was the first of the large Walker Hebborn family living today. My great great grandfather Thomas Heborn [F004] was the next son. He lived for 52 years, but his marriage to Mary Baker produced only one known son, but there are many alive today who can be traced back to him. Then came the second John [this one recorded as Heburn] [F005] in 1805, he died when he was only twenty-two.

William married Ann Patey at Headington on 3rd Nov 1832. Their only son, John Hebborn [G003] was baptised on 5th Apr 1835. Before a year had passed, William died and was buried at Headington on 14th February 1836. The 1830’s were hard years in rural England and Ann would have had to work hard to bring up her young son. John would have been 16 when she was married to Thomas Boffin, a widower, on 4th August 1851 at St Peter le Bailey, Oxford.

John married Thirza Haynes at Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry on 17th August 1856. I wonder if his elderly grandmother Elizabeth Hebborn [E002w] was able to be there. By this time, her husband and all her sons were dead. She died at Headington Quarry 8 months later. The death certificate records her age as 85 and the cause of death is certified as “Decay of Nature”.

John and Thirza’s children were Rosa Elizabeth [H023] (1857) – Mary Ann [H024] (1860) – William Joseph [H025] (1863) – Emily Ann [H026] (1867) and Emma Ann [H027] (1870).  Thirza died in 1872 and was buried on 22nd February at Headington Quarry. John re-married at St James, Cowley on 26th July 1874. His second wife was Mary Moulding who was about 13 years his junior. There were five children by this marriage – Thomas Henry [H028] (1875) – Rose Elizabeth [H029] (1877) – Florence Annie [H030] (1879) – Naomi Lily [H031] (1881) – Charlotte Catherine [H032] (1884) and Kate Frances [H033] (1887).

John was a grandfather many times over before he died in 1902. Mary lived on until 1916 and is buried at Headington.

I am indebted to Brenda Purves, Jenny Hebborn, and Joan Williams, whose research has helped make this article possible.
John Hebborn.

The numbers in square brackets after names can be used to identify persons on Family Tree Charts and Databases.   See Family Tree Chart F006.

See also article of March 2004 “What Happened To William’s Widow”