George Hayden

Bef 1776 - 1859  (> 83 years)

• Name	George Hayden
  Birth	Bef 1776	St. Mary's County, Maryland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1859	Springfield, Washington, Kentucky   [2]
  Person ID	I5118	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	William Hayden,   b. Abt 1742   d. 10 Apr 1794, Washington County, Kentucky (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 (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 d. Bef 1818, Washington County, Kentucky (Age ~ 43 years)
  Marriage	7 Jul 1796	Washington County, Kentucky   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Hayden,   b. 1798, Kentucky + 2. Joseph Hayden,   b. Abt 1800, Washington County, Kentucky d. Bef 1883, Kentucky (Age ~ 82 years) + 3. Eleanor Hayden,   b. 4 Jul 1803, Nelson County, Kentucky d. 7 May 1880, Daviess County, Kentucky (Age 76 years) + 4. George Samuel Hayden,   b. 15 Nov 1810, New Hope, Nelson, Kentucky d. 4 May 1876, Daviess County, Kentucky (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F2627	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2024

  
  

• 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

  [S132] Linda Reno, 2 Jan 2008, post to MDSTMARY-L. [S258] Hayden/Rapier and Allied Families: Colonial Maryland, Kentucky, U.S.A. by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: MLD Genealogy Company, 1991. [S10] Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, compiled by Jordan Dodd, on ancestry.com. [S1290] 100 Years of Marriages, 1792-1892: Washington County, Kentucky by Phyllis Brown. Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research, 2012.