Tribute to My Mother Edith White

Edith Kate, born 16 August 1924 elder daughter of Fred and Alice White.

She and my father, Maurice Hatley met at Vicker’s Aircraft factory during the war. Edith would come over to Maurice’s work bench and chat with him and they became firm friends. When not at the factory they would walk miles around the beautiful parts of Hampshire, along the Rivers, Test and Itchen or on the hills around Winchester. The couple became engaged. When Edith left Vickers, she went to work for the Corbett family in Itchen Abbas as a nanny and companion. Her next job was with the Chandlers Ford family of Doctor Sibley. Edith loved music and was a keen dancer. She could play the piano and the spoons. Their courtship lasted some ten years.

Before their marriage Edith was taken seriously ill and was sent to Kent to stay with her aunts. Working out in the fresh air on the farms and in the hop fields seemed to restore her health. Thought to be TB, but it was never really explained as to why she was ill. When Maurice’s father’s health started to fail Edith helped to nurse him until his death in 1952.

Edith did learn to drive, but had her confidence shattered after an accident with a cyclist and did not drive regularly after that.

After the war when Maurice left the factory he set up his own business, buying and selling government surplus vehicles, he and Edith travel all over the country bringing them back to the yard at Chandler’s Ford.

Once the children came along Edith became a full time Mother to her two children. Then in the early 1960s we began to keep donkeys and, then ponies, followed by cattle. Edith loved having the animals around, and even though she had not handled them before, she was a natural with them. Then we had the dogs and they played a very important roll in her life. When we moved to Devon in the mid 1960s Edith threw her heart and soul into the farm.

Edith was a quiet and calm woman, who had a hard working fiery man for her husband. The business worries all led to difficult times, but Mother saw us through these times with a calmness and serenity.

Looking back she gave me so much to know how to run a home and family, and cope with being married to a self employed man. Her death in 1985 from cancer was devastating to us all. I feel so said that she has not seen my son grow up and enjoy what would have been her two great grandchildren.

The Hatley family of Shutford in Oxfordshire

William HATLEY was born in 1710 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was buried on 29 May 1780 in Shutford Oxfordshire. The Hatley family of Oxfordshire are of the Catholic faith so not always found to be logged in the parish records. They must have suffered some persecution at times.

• He had a residence in Shutford Oxfordshire.
• He worked as a Husbandsman about 1780.
• He signed a will in 1780 in Oxford Oxfordshire.

William married Elizabeth. Elizabeth was buried on 5 May 1778 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

i. Mary HATLEY was born in 1734 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was buried on 17 Sep 1768 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

ii. William HATLEY was born in 1738 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was buried on 12 May 1812 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

iii. John HATLEY was born in 1744 in Shutford Oxfordshire and died on 19 Jan 1799 in Shutford Oxfordshire aged 55.

iv. Ann HATLEY was born in 1749 in Epwell Oxfordshire and died on 1 May 1805 in Shutford Oxfordshire aged 56.

v. Elizabeth HATLEY was born in 1752 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

vi. Sarah HATLEY.

Second Generation

John HATLEY was born in 1744 in Shutford Oxfordshire and died on 19 Jan 1799 in Shutford Oxfordshire aged 55.

General Notes: Papists.

• He had a residence in Shutford Oxfordshire.
• He signed a will on 13 Jan 1799 in Oxford Oxfordshire. proved 20 Mar 1799

John married Ann ROSE, daughter of Edward ROSE and Elizabeth, in 1770 in Combroke Warwickshire. Ann was born in 1747, was christened on 12 Apr 1752 in Newbottle Northamptonshire, and was buried on 1 May 1805 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

Burial Notes: Roman Catholic. Research Notes: Ann bapt. and parents needs checking
• She had a residence in Shutford Oxfordshire.

i. Catherine HATLEY was born about 1771 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

ii. Horatio HATLEY was born in 1777 in Shutford Oxfordshire, died on 27 Feb 1853 in Shutford Oxfordshire aged 76, and was buried on 4 Mar 1853 in Shutford Oxfordshire.

iii. Lewis HATLEY was born about 1781 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was buried on 16 Oct 1864 in West End Hampshire.

He is know and documented to be post master for West End, but on the birth of his children and his son's marriage certificate he is shown to be a paper maker. There were paper mills in
West End at Gater's Mill (Upmill) and in Durley. His daughter Mary Ann took on the post office after her father.

• He had a residence in Victoria House Swaythling Road West End Hampshire.
• He had a residence about 1781 in Shutford Oxfordshire.
• He owned house in 1799 in Shutford Oxfordshire. Lewis inherited this house in Shutford and 10 guineas in his father's will
• He had a residence circa 1810 in South Stoneham Hampshire.
• He worked as an Agricultural Labourer in 1841 in West End Hampshire.
• He owned 2 cottages in 1845 in West End Hampshire. plots 589, occupied by Charles Dunsford and living in plot 590
• He worked as a Papermaker in 1851.
• He worked as a Post Master in 1859. found in White's Directory
• He worked as a Sub Post Master and Grocer in 1861 in South Stoneham Hampshire.

Lewis married Sarah HOOPER, daughter of Thomas HOOPER and Mary, on 2 Jun 1810 in South Stoneham Hampshire. Sarah was christened on 1 Apr 1792 in South Stoneham Hampshire and was buried on 20 Apr 1862 in West End Hampshire.

• She had a residence in Victoria House Swaythling Road West End Hampshire.
• She worked as a Manager of Grocery Business in 1861.

M iv. John Constantine HATLEY was born about 1784 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was buried on 18 Jun 1822 in South Stoneham Hampshire.

F v. Elizabeth HATLEY was born in 1785.

M vi. Joshua HATLEY was born in 1786.

M vii. Edward Patrick HATLEY was born on 23 Dec 1786 in Shutford Oxfordshire and was christened on 2 Jan 1787 in Brailes Warwickshire.

The Hatley Surname

This is an English habitation surname. It originates from the village of Cockayne Hatley in Bedfordshire, recorded as Hattenleia, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 960 AD or from East Hatley and Hatley St. George, recorded as Hateleia in the Cambridge Inquisitions of 1080. The three villages are close together on a piece of raised land, the first part of the name is said to have derive from "hatt", meaning the top of the hill, with "leah", a fenced area suitable for farming.

The first recorded spelling of the name in parish registers is thought to be that of one John Hatley. He married Agnes Barlow at Grantchester, in Cambridgeshire, 23rd Jan 1541. Other early mentions of the name are Arnold de Hateleia 1198 Bedfordshire Fleet of Fines and Agnes de Hatleye 1275 Subsidy Rolls Worchestershire.

On the whole the name is spelt Hatley, but I have found the following variations, Attlee, Hadleigh or Hadley, Hateley.

Introduction

Good day m’dears.

The reason for doing a blog is so that I can share my genealogy research. It seems a shame to leave it sat on the hard drive going nowhere, and it would be wonderful if I can find answers to the many questions and gaps I have.

I also have a passion for sheepdogs. We have had Border Collies for many years and now have two Australian Kelpies. So will use the blog to help these wonderful dogs get recognition and the right kind of home this busy little dog needs, too many are ending up needing re homing.

My Hatley family came to Hampshire from the Shutford area of Oxfordshire, a Catholic family. I hope to put a chart on here to describe this family and my research.

The Gibbins name is my husband’s, all from Devon. I want to get this tree back further, but am stuck with being unable to find the parents and christening, c. 1756 of one George Gibbins of Bickleigh near Tiverton. To try and find this man I have started to work on a One Name Study of Gibbins and all its many spellings variations in Devon before 1760. This has led me, with help of my very good friend Elizabeth Howard, to glean notes on many interesting Gibbons families, some out side the county, like the musical Gibbons, Orlando and Edward, the ancestors of the Historian Edward or Edmund Gibbon. I also have notes on Heraldry.