Hackney Family Tree

Joseph HackneyA, was born 26 October 1651 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. He died 9 December 1737 in Old Street, London. Old Street runs from Goswell Road and Aldergate to Shoreditch and King's Land Road. It is south of the area of greater London called Hoxton, and west of Bethnal Green. Old Street passes near St. Luke's Hospital (which is now the Bank of England's Printing Works) and St. Giles Cripplegate. The old Quaker burial ground of Bunhill Fields (began use in 1665 and disused since 1852) is near.[1]

Joseph married Elizabeth JENNINGS, daughter of William and Sarah (__) Jennings, on 17 February 1674/5 in Leighton Monthly Meeting, Hempstead Parish, Herts. Elizabeth was born ca. 1654 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She died 17 April 1731 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. The LDS lists a number of microfilms of cemetery and Church of England records for Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans in Herts., but I have not had an opportunity to study them.[2]

Elizabeth (Jennings) Hackney's brother was Samuel JENNINGS, a merchant of Burlington, New Jersey, who signed his will 24 July 1708. It was proved 18 October 1709. In it Samuel mentioned his sister Eliza. Hackney, and his daughters Sarah, wife of Thomas STEVENSON; Anne, wife of William Stevenson; and Mercy, wife of John Stevenson. He also named grandchildren (all under age): Isaac PENNINGTON, son of Edward, deceased; Jennings and Elizabeth, the children of William Stevenson; Thomas Stevenson, son of John; and Anne and Sarah, daughters of William. Legacies for them were left in the hands of Philadelphia merchants Samuel CARPENTER and Richard HILL. He also mentioned "cousin" [i.e. niece and nephews] Susannah (Hackney) FOX, John Hackney, Samuel Hackney, and his friend Thomas ELLWOOD of Hunger Hill near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and brother[-in-law?] Isaac MARRIOT (husband of Joyce OLIVE, the sister of Samuel Jenning's deceased wife). His executors were his three daughters and their husbands.[3]

I found no Hackneys in Besse's Sufferings for London/Middlesex or Hertfordshire (spelled by Besse "Hartfordshire"). This doesn't prove that the Hackneys were not Quakers, only that they had no brushes with the law that Besse recorded.[4] Obviously both Joseph and Elizabeth were Friends when they married in 1675.

Joseph was said to have been a wealthy wool merchant in Cheapside, London.

Children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Jennings) Hackney:

John Hackney1, b. 12 Nov. 1676 in Hemel Hempstead; immigrated to the new world and stayed.

Susannah Hackney, b. ca. 1677 in Hemel Hempstead; m. 20 May 1695/6 George FOX, son of James Fox and Elizabeth (RECORD) Fox, in Burlington, West Jersey. George was b. 1675 in Plymouth, Eng. They gave their first intentions to Burlington Meeting Third Month [May] 4, 1696, O.S., and they were married there on the 20th.[5] They had 7 children listed in Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1911), 317) [cascgs]

Samuel Hackney, b. 20 Aug. 1678 in Hemel Hempstead; d. 5 May 1755 in St. Luke's Parish, Middlesex, Eng.; m. Mary __. Samuel immigrated to the new world, but then returned to England in 1717.

Joseph Hackney, Jr., b. 15 July 1680 Hemel Hempstead; d. 12 Sept. 1736, St. Luke's Parish, Middlesex, Eng.; m. 1705 Mary (__) Freeman, the widow of John FREEMAN, when Mary was about 40 years old. Joseph remained his entire life in England. He was a linen dyer in London, and at the time of his death his nephew John OWEN was his apprentice. In his will Joseph mentioned no children of his own and his nephew, John Owen, had some behavior requirements in order to inherit the linen dyer business when Joseph died. A short time later, John Owen, his father and Sarah were in London and listed as linen dyer. So it looks as if the son did not inherit the business, but rather Joseph's sister Sarah and her husband John took over the business. John Owen, Sr., was an executor for the will and Sarah and John were beneficiaries after the death of Joseph's wife Mary.[5a]
Sarah Hackney, b. ca. 1682 in Hemel Hempstead; m. 17 Sept. 1706 in Wood-End, Herts. John OWEN. They inherited Sarah's brother Joseph's linen dyer business in London after the death of Joseph and his wife Mary. Sarah and John had a son, John Owen, Jr., who was an apprentice with his uncle Joseph Hackney at the time of the latter's death.

Edward Hackney, b. ca. 1684 in Hemel Hempstead; d. 1 Aug. 1709 in Hemel Hempstead; unmarried?

Circumstantial evidence supports the idea of Joseph and Elizabeth (Jennings) as the parents of our John, if for no other reason that they were Friends, and therefore more likely to have their children go to the Quaker settlement on the Delaware River. However, there was another John Hackney, born 26 November 1675 and baptized two days later at St. Mary Magdalene in Woolwich. The original church was built some time before the 12th century (possibly even as early as the 9th century), but because of its proximity to the Thames, the sandy soil was washing away, sometimes exposing bones in the graveyard. In the 1730s it was torn down and a new one built on higher ground. Note that this is the church in Greater London rather than one of the same name in Kent. The baby John was the son of Joseph and Mary (__) Hackney. [Facsimile of the holograph composite register, London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Baptisms July 1670-May 1694 . . . p. 97/MRY, Item 001, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812, accessed 3/28/2013 on ancestry library via ProQuest.

source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/griffith/Hackney.html

Last Will and Testament of Samuel Jennings

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730. Part ICalendar of New Jersey Wills.
Page: 259
Name: Samuel Jennings
Date: 24 Jul 1708
Location: Burlington
merchant; will of. Sister Eliza. Hackney. Daughters--Sarah, Anne and Mercy, who are the wives of Thomas, William and John Stevenson; grandchildren--Isaac, son of Edward Pennington dec'd, Jennings and Elizabeth, son and daughter of William Stevenson, Thomas, son of John Stevenson, Anne and Sarah, daughters of Thomas Stevenson, all under age, and the legacies left to them to be placed in the hands of Samuel Carpenter and Richard Hill of Philadelphia, merchants; cousin Susannah Fox, John Hackney, Samuel Hackney, friend Thomas Ellwood of Hunger Hill near Amersham, Co. of Bucks, England, brother(-in-law?) Isaac Mariot. Real and personal estate. Executors--the three daughters and their husbands. Witnesses--Tho: Gardiner, Thomas Raper, Daniel Smith. Proved 18 Oct 1709.
Lib. 1, p. 226