John Hawarden

First found in Cheshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Hawarden. At the taking of the Domesday Book in 1086, a census by Duke William of Normandy after the conquest of England at Hastings in 1086, Hawarden was a small village on the border of Cheshire and Wales but actually in Clwyd. Hawarden Castle was later occupied by William Gladstone, Prime Minister of England.

This interesting surname, having long associations with the north-western English county of Lancashire, is of Anglo-Saxon origin. A Coat of Arms granted to the Hawarden family of Lancashire in 1665, is a shield divided quarterly black and silver, with a cross flory counterchanged and a bordure ermine, the Crest being a stag's head ermine, horned gold, emerging from a gold ducal coronet. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Hawarden, which was dated May 1st 1543, a christening witness at Farnworth near Prescot, Lancashire, during the reign of King Henry V111, known as "Bluff King Hal", 1509 - 1547. On February 3rd 1545, Francis Hewerdyne was christened at Ingleby Greenhow, Yorkshire, and on January 21st 1550, Elline, daughter of John Hawardeyne or Hawarden, was christened at Farnworth near Prescot, Lancashire.