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George Hayden

Male Bef 1776 - 1859  (> 83 years)


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  • Name George Hayden 
    Birth Bef 1776  St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 1859  Springfield, Washington, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 5 siblings 
    Person ID I5118  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
    Last Modified 1 May 2016 

    Father William Hayden,   b. Abt 1742   d. 10 Apr 1794, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Thompson 
    Family ID F4665  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nancy Doncaster,   b. Bef 1794 
    Children 
    +1. John Thomas Hayden,   b. 1822   d. 31 Dec 1901, Penick, Marion, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F2763  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2015 

    Family 2 Mary "Polly" Elliott,   b. Between 1769-1774, St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1818, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Marriage 7 Jul 1796  Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Hayden,   b. 1798, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Joseph Hayden,   b. Abt 1800, Washington County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1883, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 82 years)
    +3. Eleanor Hayden,   b. 4 Jul 1803, Nelson County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 May 1880, Daviess County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    +4. George Samuel Hayden,   b. 15 Nov 1810, New Hope, Nelson, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 May 1876, Daviess County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Family ID F2627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 May 2016 

  • Notes 
    • Emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky in 1788. [www.stmarysfamilies.com, citing Hayden/Rapier and Allied Families by Mary Louise Donnelly.]

      Laura Hayden notes that, compared to other Haydens of this time and place, there appear to be unusually long spans of time between the births of George and Mary Hayden's children. We suspect this means we don't have a full record of all of them.

      The 1820 census enumeration of George Hayden's family lists two "Free White Persons - Males - 16 to 25", and two "Free White Persons - Females 10 to 15", none of whom can be accounted for by George and Mary's known children. This is specifically relevant to our belief that George and Mary were the parents of Joseph Hayden b. ~1800, who would account for one of the missing males aged 16 to 25; for more on that, see Joseph's own page. It could also account for another son named Clement, unless Clement is just Joseph Clement or Clement Joseph. We have no theory of the identity of the missing daughters aged 10 to 15, who would have been born between 1805 and 1810.

      The book History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. And an Outline History of Kentucky (Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1883) states that George and Mary Hayden's son George Samuel Hayden (1810-1876) was "the youngest" of "a large family". In fact, we believe he was the youngest of George and Mary's children, and that George's several further children were the offspring of a second wife named Nancy Doncaster or Duncaster. But at any rate, three children - Elizabeth, Eleanor, and George Samuel - don't constitute "a large family" by the standards of the time. So we're strongly inclined to believe that George and Mary had more children than those for whom records have survived.

  • Sources 
    1. [S132] Linda Reno, 2 Jan 2008, post to MDSTMARY-L.

    2. [S10] Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, compiled by Jordan Dodd, on ancestry.com.

    3. [S1290] 100 Years of Marriages, 1792-1892: Washington County, Kentucky by Phyllis Brown. Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research, 2012.