Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
John Hales
1694 - 1756 (~ 62 years)-
Name John Hales Christened 25 Mar 1694 Yalding, Kent, England Gender Male Died 29 Jul 1756 Boxley, Kent, England Buried 2 Aug 1756 Boxley, Kent, England Person ID I1875 Petersen-de Lanskoy Last Modified 27 May 2021
Father Jacob Hales, b. Abt 1671, of, Kent, England , bur. 4 Nov 1741, Yalding, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) Mother Elizabeth Penny, c. 5 Dec 1675, East Malling, Kent, England , bur. 6 Jun 1752, Yalding, Kent, England (Age ~ 76 years) Married 10 Nov 1692 East Malling, Kent, England Family ID F811 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary Foster, c. 22 Dec 1700, Lynstead, Kent, England , d. 1 Jul 1737, Boxley, Kent, England (Age ~ 36 years) Married 7 Apr 1724 Frinstead, Kent, England Children 1. Thomas Hales, c. 3/03 Mar 1724/5, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 10 Apr 1788, Frinstead, Kent, England (Age ~ 63 years) 2. John Hales, c. 19 Jun 1726, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 12 Oct 1762, Boxley, Kent, England (Age ~ 36 years) 3. Richard Hales, c. 31 Dec 1727, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 8 Jun 1728, of Boxley, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years) 4. Stephen Hales, c. 1 May 1729, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 25 Apr 1783, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 53 years) 5. Lawrence Hales, c. 28 Oct 1730, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 8 Dec 1791, Newington, Kent, England (Age ~ 61 years) 6. Henry Hales, c. 9 Jul 1732, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 5 Jun 1734, Boxley, Kent, England (Age ~ 1 years) 7. Elizabeth Hales, c. 24/24 Feb 1733/4, Boxley, Kent, England , bur. 8/08 Mar 1733/4, Boxley, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years) 8. Mary Hales, b. Abt 1737, Boxley, Kent, England Last Modified 28 May 2021 Family ID F810 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Sarah Foreman, b. of Sutton Valence, Kent, England, d. 9 Oct 1754, Boxley, Kent, England Married 21 Jul 1738 Rochester St. Nicholas, Kent, England Last Modified 28 May 2021 Family ID F1153 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parish map of Kent with origin dates on file.
2. The Hales Newsletter, Summer 2004 Vol. 8 No. 2 [See much more lengthy citation with father Jacob Hales]:
"Our Hales family appeared in East Malling on January 10th, 1692. That was the day that Jacob Hales married Elizabeth Penny... Jacob was not in the parish overseer's accounts for 1700, 1715 or 1728, yet we know the couple had money, for Elizabeth received an inheritance of £40 when she married. Jacob may have been a tradesman.
Two of Jacob's sons returned to Boxley: John and Jacob. It may be that they returned to the Hales home that was left when the property was purchased in Yalding in the 1500s, or perhaps some relatives were still living at Boxley or there was some Hales property there.
John Hales of Boxley, son of Jacob of Yalding, would have been 30 when he married Mary Foster at Frinsted in 1724. Based on the headstone inscription at Boxley, Mary was born in 1700 and would have been 24. While it is stated that this Mary Foster was "of Frinsted," I have not been able to discover a Foster family there. However, about three and a half miles to the east of Frinsted lies the parish of Lynsted. In the records of Lynsted there is a Foster family which lists the death of Mary, daughter of William Foster of Frinsted in 1699. Other members of this family are also referred to as being "of Frinsted." The next year this family named another daughter Mary when she was christened in 1700. I believe this is the Mary Foster that married John Hales.
While the parish churches of Lynsted and Frinsted are only three and a half miles apart, the actual farms where they lived might be somewhere in-between and they may have attended both the Lynsted and Frinsted parish churches.
Most likely John Hales of Boxley had a reason to be in the Frinsted area. It may have been because he had an ancestor or other relative there to visit. The reason is yet to be found.
Jacob Hales of Boxley, son of Jacob of Yalding, followed his brother John to Boxley and married ten years later. Neither of these two sons named a son Jacob (or James – the Latinized form of Jacob), and both called their firstborn girl Elizabeth. This probably indicates something of their relationship to their father. The oldest daughter is named after their mother, but the oldest son is not named after their father."
MARRIAGE:
1. John Hales widower from Boxley married Sarah Foreman widow from Towne Sutton (now called Sutton Valence) by licence at St. Nicholas Church Rochester on the 21st, July 1738.
DEATH:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website: noted as age 62 at time of death.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website.
2. Parish records of East Malling, Yalding, Frinstead, and Boxley by correspondence; Research done by Raymond E. Stokes, record agent of Cobbam, Kent, England for the Hales Genealogical society, Kenneth Glyn Hales, sec.; Monumental inscriptions of Boxley dated 1912 by correspondence; August 1972. (1951 Chateau court, Walnut Creek, CA 94598) 2. Correspondence form England, 1 Feb 1951; Frinstead P.R.; Bishop Transcript of frinstead and Parish registers of Boxley by correspondence Gen. soc. FS.; submitted by Gen Soc ECS/DMA, Elizabeth R. Izatt, 293 E. 3rd So., Logan, UT 3. Added by: Robert L. Hales, 266 So. Main St., Nephi, UT of 5 Jul 1962.
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