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LEONARD HAZELDEN'S CHILDREN
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Leonard
was baptised on the 30th June, 1833 at Framfield although it is thought that
he was actually born in Nutley, Sussex.
Some time before 1869, he emigrated to the USA where he met and married
Betsey Halvorsen who was of Norwegian origin.
They settled at Stony Run in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
Leonard and Betsey had five children, all born in Minnesota:
1. Margaret was born in 1869 and she married Raphael Sunde.
2. Emma was born in 1871 and married Peder Sunde in 1888. Emma died in 1895
of typhoid fever.
CHILDREN
John 1889-1969. Has grandson Bill Sunde who lives in Texas, USA.
Lenora 1890-1983
Albert born 1892
William 1895-1975
3. Eleanor was born in 1872 and she married Andrew Ivorson. They lived in
the Roslyn area and they were members of
Hope Lutheran Church. Eleanor died in 1932 from Hodgkins Disease.
CHILDREN
Irvin
Oscar - died in infancy
Laurence
4. Leonard 1874-1910
5. Sven Augustus born 1877
At the forming of Stony Run Township on 26 September 1871, Leonard was
elected as both the Township Clerk
and also as a Justice.
Yellow Medicine County entered into existence on 1 January 1872 with the
first meeting of its three County Commissioners,
one of whom was Leonard. He was also instrumental in setting up a school in
a claim shanty and he was elected the teacher.
The school ran for four months with about seventeen pupils, ages ranging
from 10 years to 25 years.
Leonard's main occupation was farming.
In 1882 Leonard and family moved to South Dakota where he became a land
owner.
They settled in Nutley Township, the name being suggested by Leonard. It
still exists today.
Page from "History of Day County - Nutley Township"
On 25 February 1885 a post office was
established and named "Leonard", its namesake was the postmaster.
It was renamed Nutley Post Office in 1886.
There is also a lake in Nutley Township named after Leonard, "Hazelden
Lake". It is situated on farmland which was inhabited
by the Hazelden family around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
No trace of Betsey can be found on the 1990 census and it is believed that
she had died.
Leonard married for a second time to Agathe Rohrer between 1895 and 1900 who
was of Swiss origin.
Leonard died in Dodge County, Minnesota in 1905 and Agathe died on 28 June
1931 in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
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Maria
was born on the 21st February, 1838 at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At the age of 13 years she was a servant in Berwick but still living at home
with her father and siblings.
Her son Alfred was born illegitimately in
1867 at Uckfield in Sussex and on the 10th November, 1878 she married
Richard Brockwell at St Thomas' Church, Bethnall Green. Witnesses to the
marriage were Joseph and Margaret Offord, parents of Alfred's wife. They
lived at 6 Croxted Lane, Streatham, Surrey and both Richard and Alfred were
coal Porters.
Maria died at Wandsworth in 1891.
For census purposes, Maria's son Alfred appears to have used the surname of
his step-father but his birth name appears on his marriage certificate. On
this document Richard Brockwell appears as Richard Hazelden.
Alfred married Mary Ann Offord on the 30th January, 1893 at St Matthew's
Church, Brixton.
Alfred and Mary Ann had five sons all born in Brixton:
1. Alfred born 1898. He was a Prisoner of War in WW1. He has one daughter,
Josephine who married Tony Schofield.
They live in Knaresborough, Yorkshire and have one son, Matthew, who is
married with two children.
2. Leonard 1901-1971. He married Agnes Kaye and they had one son Richard who
married Pauline Conroy.
They live in Upperthong, Holmfirth in Yorkshire and have sons Sean and
Nathan.
3. Edward third son of Alfred and Mary Ann. Last known to be working for
Vickers Aviation at Weybridge in Surrey.
4. Arthur James 1907-1975. One son Glen who is married to Margaret.
Arthur was Mayor of Huddersfield 1970-71 and he was also a Justice of the
Peace.
Plaque in Huddersfield Town Hall
5. Willie was the fifth son of Alfred and
Mary Ann. Had son Robert who is married to Brenda Shaw.
They live at Leymoor, Huddersfield and have one son Jarrad.
These five sons of Alfred and Mary Ann were sent to live with Alfred's
cousin Elizabeth Matley (nee Williams) in
Marsden, West Yorkshire after Mary Ann died young.
They travelled alone by train with their names pinned to their coats.
Elizabeth and her husband Bruce brought them up alongside their own two
sons.
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William
was born in 1845 in Berwick-upon-Tweed. He married Emma and they had two
sons:
William born 1876
James born 1878
Like his older brother Leonard, William along with his family emigrated to
the USA sometime between 1878 and 1880.
They too settled at Stony Run in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, in fact
they were neighbours of Leonard and family.
William was a farmer.
William purchased land in Minnesota but they did not stay there long, in
1882 they also moved to Day County where
they purchased further land.
William died in 1883, a victim of a snowstorm for which South Dakota was
famous.
This is recorded in the "History of Day County".
An account of William's demise in the snow from "History of Day County"
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James Davidson
was born in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1847.
He married Margaret Offord at Lambeth in 1882. She was the sister of Mary
Ann Offord who was married to James' nephew,
Alfred Hazelden.
In 1891 they lived at 3 Croxted Lane, Streatham and James was a chimney
sweep.
James and Margaret had three children, all born at Hern Hill, Surrey:
Margaret born 1884
Philadelphia born 1886
James born 1888
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