John Hays Family of Southwark

Sarah Applegath m. (1) Thomas Hays (d. c. 1735) 

                                                        m. (2) Capt. Thomas Hill[s] (d. 1774, lost at sea

I. John Hays (13 October 1729-April 1774) married Elizabeth Judge Hays (c. 1730-buried 5 August 1812) on 18 March 1750.   

                              Joanna Judge  (Elizabeth's sister) married  Benjamin Seymour (b. c. 1725)

                                            Benjamin Seymour (b. c. 1775 – 15 March 1817) married

                                            Naomi Seely (b.c. 1777); they immigrated to America in 1793

1. Joanna Hays (1754-1805) m. John Dunkin (1753-1827) on 11 July 1774, [See entry for their family below.]

2. Sarah Hays (1755-1836) m. Thomas Hills (c. 1753-1803) on 6 August 1776 at St. John, Horsley Down.

Most likely Thomas Hills is the brother of William Hills, who attended the Ryland Academy in Northampton with John Dunkin, Jr., in the late 1760s. Thomas and William were the sons of William Hills of Gainsford Street (d. 1756), who was probably a brother of Capt. Thomas Hills, the second husband of Mary Hays's grandmother, Sarah Applegath Hays. 

a. Sarah Hills (born in July 1777 and baptized 4 August 1777 at White Row, Spitalfields) married William Wheeler at Islington on 21 April 1808

b. Elizabeth Hills (baptized 29 October 1778) died young.

c. Elizabeth Hills (baptized 23 March 1779) 

d. A son, unnamed in the church record book, baptized 23 April 1782

e. William Hills (baptized 21 April 1784) married Emma Dunkin (his cousin) in 1810

f. Thomas Hills  (baptized 14 June 1786)

g. Mary Hills (born 22 September 1792-1832; baptized 23 November 1792) m. Ambrose Lanfear (15 May 1787-30 October 1870, in New Orleans) (son of Ambrose Lanfear, Sr., from his first marriage, and step-son of Elizabeth Hays Lanfear) on 28 September 1826 at Islington.

3. Mary Hays (1759-1843) never married.

4. Elizabeth Hays (Lanfear), sister  (c. 1765-1825) m. Ambrose Lanfear (d. 1809) at Maldon, Essex, on 14 March 1804.  

                 Elizabeth Hays Lanfear's stepsons:

                           a. Ambrose Lanfear (1787-1870) m. Mary Hills (1792-1832)    

                           b. Joseph Lanfear  (b. 1792) 

Elizabeth Hays Lanfear's children:

a. John Hays Lanfear (22 April 1805-16 August 1817) (unmarried)

b. Francis Lanfear (19 September 1806-22 June 1830) (unmarried)

5. John Hays (1768-1862) m. Elizabeth Atkinson Breese (c. 1781-1832) on 4 May 1812 at St. Bride, Fleet Street, London.

                  John Hays's stepchildren: 

                           a. Clara Breese m. Frederick Salmon on 24 June 1830

                           b. Elizabeth Breese (1803-05), 

                           c. Hannah Bancroft Breese (b. 1805)

                           d. Elizabeth Bancroft Breese (b. 1810)

John Hays's children wth Elizabeth Breese:

a.  Elizabeth Hays was born on 4 February and baptized on 6 March 1813, at St. Alphege, Greenwich, while living at the Paragon, Blackheath, to Hays, once again listed as “Merchant.”  

b. Anna Hays was baptized at St. Alphege, Greenwich, on 21 May 1814, and born on 17 April 1814, to Hays, then living at the Paragon, Blackheath, and listed as a “Merchant.” 

c. Henry, was baptized/christened in the Parish church of St Alphege, Grennwich, on 3 May 1817, with the address listed as Paragon, Blackheath, and parents as John and Elizabeth Mary Hays, Gentleman. Birth was on 24 March 1817. 

d. Susanna Hays was born on 20 September 1818 and baptized at St Alphege, Greenwich, on 22 October 1818, while the Hayses were living at the Paragon, Blackheath, with Hays listed as “Gentleman.”  

e. Matilda Mary Hays was born on 8 September 1820 and christened on 7 October 1820 at the Old Church, St. Pancras, London, with Hays listed as living in Doughty Street. 

f.  Albert Hays was baptized in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham, current Borough of Merton, on 24 July 1823, having been born on 22 June 1823. Hays still listed as “Gentleman.”  His address is listed as “Mitcham,” but he had recently moved his family into the impressive home and grounds of  Norwood Lodge. 

6. Thomas Hays  (1772-1856) married Elizabeth Dunkin (John Dunkin’s half-sister) (c. 1775-1832) in 1796.

a. Christopher Dunkin Hays, born 19 April 1800, Southwark.

b. Elizabeth Clulow Hays, born 7 October 1801, christened 11 November 1801, St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey

c. Mary Dunkin Hays, born 25 March 1803, christened 23 April, St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey

d. Thomas Hays, born 10 December 1804, christened 9 January 1805, St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey

e. Marianna Hays, born 14 July 1807, christened 31 May 1808, St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey

f. Joseph Judge Hays, born 26 May 1806, christened 31 May 1808, St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey

g. Henry Francis Hays, born 6 August 1819, christened 6 October 1819, St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch

7. Marianna Hays (1773-97) married Edward Palmer (1770-1831) on 4 June 1796 in Southwark. Died in December 1797 in her 25th year.

The "Memoir" of Mary Hays by E. Kell in the Christian Reformer (1844) says that when John Hays died in 1774, he left behind "a widow and seven children." Heretofore, only six children have been identified. This genealogy includes Marianna Hays, Mary Hays's previously unknown youngest sister, with whom she lives for about a year after her marriage in 1796 to Edward Palmer and who cares for her during her fatal pregnancy that year.  Some of the individuals above can be found in the Biographical Index.