There is a township in Northumberland, England, near Alnwick,
and Warworth Castle, now called Hazon (or Hazen). In early records
it was written Heisende, and philiolgists beleive it was derived
from Hegges ende (softened into Heies ende), meaning end of the
hedge. To this day there are miles of hedge by the roadside in
the township.
From this town, the surname was derived. Hugh of Heisende [in
the Latin form, Hugo de Heisende] made an agreement 8 Sept. 1202
regarding 100 acres of wood in Heisende [Feet of Fines, John Northumberland,
case 180, file 2, no. 8]; a Hugo de Heisende is also found in
1256, in an Assize Roll of Northumberland, and in another Roll
in 1277 he appears as "Hugo Heisand [Surtees Society Pub.
88: 64,387].
Men removing from the town and settling elsewhere, during the
period when surnames were coming into use, would be called "de
Heisende" - from Heisende- to identify them by their place
of origin, and their offspring would become plain Heisende. The
name seems to have worked down through Yorkshire, south into Linconshire,
all on the eastern coast of England. Many records have been found,
in both printed and documentary sources, of the occurrence of
the name. It has been decided not to include full mention of these
records, partly because of space limitations, and even more because
no descent or generation sequence can be established, so that
the sporadic occurrance of the surname, variously spelled, is
of importance solely as indicating the continutity of appearance
of the surname in the northeast counties. It cannot be proved
that all who bore the surname in this region were of the same
blood, since more than one family deriving from the town of Heisende
may have adopted the name.
In Northumberland, more than a century after Hugh de Heisende,
we fine Will Haysand mentioned in 1376 [De Banco Roll, Michaelmas
Term, 49 Edward III]. In 1455 one Willaim Haysand of Newcastle,
Northumberland, claimed part of the manor of Dopmanford, co. Huntingdon,
being son of Hugh, son of Thomas (born in Haysand, Northumberland),
son of William Haysand, brother and heir of Gilbert Haysnad who
married the heiress of Dopmanford and died without issue [De Branco
Roll, Easter Term, 33 Henry VI, memb. no. 128]. Before 1399 John
of Gaunt granted the leper hospital at Warenford to a hermit named
Richard Hayzaund [John Crawford Hodgson, History of Northumberland,
1:251].
In Yorkshire is found the will (in Latin) of Willaim Hassand of
Watton, dated 11 August 1484, which mentions his father and eldest
son, both named Thomas [Reg. Test. Edor., 5:243]. John Hasande
late of Watton died 22 October 1515; and John Hassand of Kirkburne
died interstate before 13 April 1559 [Act Book for the Deanery
of Harhill and Hull with Beverley].
In 1535 Richard Hasande was bailiff, paid for collecting the rents,
in the Deanery of Ludburghe, Lincolnshire [Valor Ecclesiasticus,
4:59]. He may be the Richard Hassand with whom the proved ancestry
of Edward Hazen beginning in the section. The known ancestors
of Edward Hazen were husbandmen of the better class, of sufficient
substance to make wills. The family was not armigerous, and no
Hazen coat of arms is known.
NOTE: There are similar sounding names in Dutch (Haas) and
German (Haassen) with a Jack-Rabbitt on a family Coat of Arms,
there is no family connection. So don't be fooled by misleading
family Coat of Arms. Hazzan is the Hebrew spelling which means
a cantor, one who crys out the truth. Hazen is a common first
name in Isreal. Jews were not allowed to be armigerous. All the
Hazen's in America and Canada are decended from Edward Hazen who
came from Cadney, Lincolnshire, England to Rowley, Massachusetts
in 1638,. There is two recent arivals from England who are related
to the family back in England. Where the family name is still
spelled Hason.
What are the reasons for concluding that Edward Hazen of Rowley,
Massachusetts, the founding ancestor of the American family, was
the same "Edwardus Hasson filius Thomae" who "fuit
baptizatus 24 die Decembris 1614" as entered in the registers
of Cadney, Lincolnshire?
1. The surname was not a very common one in England, and a great
deal of reasarch in Northumberland and Lincolnshire has not disclosed
any other Edward Hazen of suitable age.
2. No other history has been found for Edward Hazen (baptized
24 Dec. 1614), who was living in 1628 when his father made a will.
no record of burail has been found in the search of many parish
registers of Lincolnshire. In July 1641, Parliament passed an
act that every clergyman should take a census of males over eighteen
in his parish, presenting to them for signature a paper upholding
the protesant faith. This "Protestation Roll" is very
complete for Lincolnshire. It shows at Cadney, William Hassen,
first cousin of Edward; at Great Limber, Richard Hason, Edward's
brother;and at South Ferraby, a Thomas Hason, servant to William
Bromby. Edward does not appear in this Roll, indicating that unless
he had died without record, he had left Lincolnshire before 1641.
3. The date of birth is about what we should expect for Edward
of Rowley, and makes him in his sixty ninth year at death.
4. The names which Edward of Rowley gave his children are very
significant. The first child was Elizabeth, named after his mother,
and also his grandmother who lived until he was fifteen years
old. The next child, Hannah, was named for Edward's wife. Then
came Johnn, the eldest son, which was the name of Edward's grandfather
and elder brother. The next child, Thomas, was named after both
grandfathers, Edward's father and Hannah's father both bearing
the name of Thomas. The next son, Edward, was named for himself,
and the youngest, Richard, for Edward's brother of that name.
The names of the other children, who were daughters, are not significant,
since Edward had no sisters for whom they could have been named.
5. Other settlers in Rowley were from Lincolnshire, and after
Edward Hazen married Hannah Grant, her sister Anna married Robert
Emerson, who was, like Hazen, a native of Cadney.
Source "The Hazen Family in America" by Prof. Tracy
Elliot Hazen, PH.D., 1947, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Published
by Dr. Robert Hazen, M.D. ("Published as a loving tribute
to my brother Tracy Ellliot Hazen"), Thomaston, Connecticut,
The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, New Haven, Connecticut.
1175 pages. Reprinted by Higginson
Book Company - Publishers, Printers, Booksellers that
Specialize in Genealogy and History.
Also see "The Hazen Family, Four American Generations,"
by Henry Allen Hazen, A.M., New Haven Connectucut. The New Englnd
Historical & Genealogical Register (Boston, 1879), microfilm
American Periodical series reel 1057, volume 33, April 1879, page
229.
Some years ago, Mr. Stanley S. Hazen is up dating and making corrections
to Tracy Elliot Hazen's Book "The Hazen Family in America."
His address is: Stanley S. Hazen, Post Office Box 6282, Charlottesville,
Virginia 22906-6282, (804) 963-9090.
Pictures of Hason , near Alnick,
Northumbria (Northumberland), England and of the Hazon
Mill (disused) on the Hazon Burn, near the Hazon Castle
or Hason Manor House. Read a History of my branch of the Hazen Family written for a family reunion
in 1906.
Copyright 1996 by T.R. Hazen
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