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The Hayward family from the West Country Counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset, came to prominence during the Stuart period and via the marriage of Captain Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward to the widow Maria Elizabeth Wiltens Andree (nee Lemmers) in 1805. It was through this marriage that the Hayward family became involved in the ownership and management of a number of plantations in Surinam.
The Dutch Lemmers, Wiltens and Andree families had a long connection with plantation ownership and management in Surinam. As early as the 1730s Lemmers family owned Alkmaar plantation. Johann Frederick Andree (d1794) owned FredericksLust in addition to owning/running a large business which managed plantations on behalf of absentee owners. The two brothers and step-sons of Johann Frederick Andree, Martinus Pieter Wiltens Andree (d1797) and Gerard Adrian Wiltens Andree (d1793) established the adjacent plantations of Pieterszorg and Andreesgift which were merged in 1793 and together comprised almost 1000 acres. Additional to their involvement in plantations, members of the family were active in the colonial administration,
After the death Martinus Pieter Wiltens Andree in Suriname, his widow Maria Elizabeth Wiltens Andree (nee Lemmers b.1768-1823) took her children to England where she subsequently met and married Captain Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward (1778-1827) in 1805. Through this marriage, the Hayward family became involved with the slave dependent Surinam plantations and Isaac Hayward toiled for the rest of his life to make the plantations profitable.
For many years the families in England were dependent upon remittances from Surinam and there were many obstacles negotiated in ensuring the plantations remained productive and shipped produce to Europe. The papers of the Hayward Family (2011.0031) include correspondence with the Dutch Wilens Andree Family in their shared interests in the plantations in Surinam as well as disputations over various inheritances. The complex legal situation created by various wills involving the plantations and Maria Elizabeth Lemmers’ children to her first husband, meant that the plantations were always under some form of legal contest or dispute as parties sought to obtain their boedel (inheritance). This situation was exacerbated by marriages and premature deaths amongst the Wiltens Andree children; widows and children created additional parties with interests in the boedel. Husbands of the Wiltens Andree daughters became active players in the proceedings. In the case of Elizabeth White (nee Wiltens Andree, 1785-1823), there was an acrimonious split with her husband, Anthony White, over his attempts to gain control of her property and his early mismanagement of the plantations may have triggered Captain Isaac JT Hayward’s move to Surinam and assumption of control over the plantations.
After the death of Captain Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward, his son Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward II (1806-1879) sought a share of the estates for himself and his brother John Frederick Hayward (b.1808). This led to legal proceedings against the surviving half siblings and other family members. The legal proceedings concluded in an appeal to The Hague in the Netherlands and created a significant family split. No longer recognised by his uncles, Isaac Hayward II departed for Australia and the goldfields in 1852, bringing this line to Victoria.
Within the Hayward family many generations share the same name, where possible these have been identified, i.e. Captain Isaac Johnson Thomas, and his son Isaac Johnson Thomas (Jnr.). Individuals in this party are listed in alphabetical order where known dates of birth and death are included. Within correspondence the same person may sign themselves, Wiltens Andre, Andree Wiltens, just Andrée or just Wiltens. The most common form has been used.
Correspondents or significant persons within (2011.0031), (2013.0039) and (2013.0056) include:
• Anna Van Byland (1726-1801)
• Anna Maria Catharina Wiltens Andree (1792-1857)
• Charles Wiltens Andree Hayward (1866-1950)
• Drinkwater Scott Thomas Hayward (1769-1848)
• Edward Wylde (1791-?)
• Elizabeth White (nee Andree Wiltens) (b.1785-1823)
• Frederick George Hayward (1884-1974)
• Isaac Johnson Thomas (Captain) (1778-1827)
• Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward (II) (1806 -1879) - immigrated to Australia in 1852 with his wife Eliza (nee Beaven) and 5 children
• Jochaim Cooper Hayward (Dr.) (1782-1812)
• John Frederick Hayward (1808-1835)
• Johnson Frederick Andree Wiltens (1822-1912)
• Magdalena Gertruyda Jowanna Wylde (nee Wiltens) (1796-1816)
• Maria Elizabeth Hayward (nee Lemmers) (1768-1832)
• Martinus Peter Wiltens Andree (1798-1828)
Additional Hayward family material see also: (1976.0080), (2009.0032), (2011.0099), (2012.0267).
Additional individual biographical records exist for:
• Isaac Johnson Thomas Hayward (III) (1837-1905) |
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Plantation owners, Businessmen, Landowners, Merchants |
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