Thomas Hazard, Sr.

Date and place of birth have also been erroneously reported to be circa 1584 (particularly 1584) at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.

family tradition

From the book Recollections of Olden Times

"When," says Gibbon somewhere in his "Rise and Fall"--I write without the book--"we see a long list of ancestors so ancient that they have no beginning, so worthy that they ought to have no end, we feel an interest in all their fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm or harmless vanity of those who are allied to the honors of the name."

I have before me a neat quarto volume of seventy-two pages, printed at York, England, "H. Southeran, book-seller, Coney street, 1858," entitled "Outlines of the History and Genealogy of the Hassards and their Connections." The work is by "John Hassard Short, Esq., of Edlington Grove, County Lincoln," who assumed the surname of Short to entitle him to the Edlington estate.
In this preface, which is addressed to "My Dear Children," the author says: "The origin of surnames is various; many are taken from trades and professions--many are mere nicknames--probably the best are from the places in which families resided and where they possessed property. It seems that the Hassards, or Hazards, took theirs from the place in which they first settled in England. The Manor of Haroldesore, in the parish of Ingleborne, in the county of Devon, is in old deeds called the Manor of Hardiswardshore, otherwise
Hardwardshore, otherwise Hasworth, otherwise Hazard. Lyons, Magna Britannia, Devonshire. From this place they apparently branched off. One purchased lands in Derbyshire and Notts, in the reign of John, A. D. 1199, whose pedigree--as I have had the labor of collecting it from the 'Rotuli Hundredorum,' 'Chancery Suits,' and wills in the record office of York--I insert. The other--our branch of the family--removed to Bristol."

Accompanying the book is an elaborate genealogical chart, bringing down the senior male members of the family in regular unbroken succession for twenty-one generations. Under the caption of "History and Lineage," the compiler says:

"The family of Hassard, Hassart, or Hazard is of Norman extraction, and of considerable antiquity. At the time of the Conquest they were living on the borders of Switzerland, and distinguished by the ancient but long extinct title of Duke de Charante. Two bearing this title visited the Holy Land as crusaders. ..."

sources

1. Nottingham Parish Registers: Marriages, Volume 1. By William Phillimore Watts Phillimore. Page 15. "Thomas Hassard and Margarit Pawmer, 22 May 1589."

links

• http://www.potterama.net/private/Genealogy/d53.htm
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...