Medieval English families on the internet: H

Hall

• Two Torches at Keighley (Andrew Booth)
  A 16th-century dispute over land, concerning the Hall family of Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with the texts of wills, inquisitions post mortem and equity pleadings

Hammond

• Hammond Genealogy Homepage
  Includes extracts from 16th-century Hertfordshire Feet of Fines, and references from Westmill, Hertfordshire

Harcourt

• Harcourt Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Errand de Harcourt (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Harris

• Harris of Essex, England (Noël Robertson)
  Various extracts concerning the Harris family of Essex, mainly from the 16th century. (Note that the surname "Harris" must be different from the medieval "de Heriz" discussed in some of the sources.)

Hasthorp: see Asthorpe

Hastings

• Andrew Lancaster Hastings families in the 12th century: what is known and what is not (this site)
  Detailed discussion of Hastings families in England in the period following the Norman conquest.

Hatcliffe

• Outline of the Hatcliffe Family 1184-1671 (Sid Hatcliffe)
  Originally from Lincolnshire; see also a visitation pedigree and other material on the same web site

Hatton

• Hatton of Hatton, and Vernon and Dutton of Hatton (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hchatton.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned chart pedigree from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Hawkins

See also Worth

• Hawkins of Plymouth and The Hawkins Dynasty (Pat Patterson)
  16th century; extracts, respectively, from Chapter 2 of J.A. Williamson, Hawkins of Plymouth: a new history of Sir John Hawkins and of the other members of his family prominent in Tudor England (1949/1969) and Chapter 4 of M.A. Lewis, The Hawkins dynasty: three generations of a Tudor family (1969)

Hawley

• Hawley (David Blackwell) [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Brief notes; Lincolnshire, 14th-15th centuries; extract from The American Ancestors of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)

Hayward

• Rowland Hayward (Pat Patterson)
  Biographical account, with extracts from records, of a 16th-century Lord Mayor of London, originally from Shropshire

Hebden

• Hebden Family (John Hebden)
  Notes on Hebden families from Yorkshire and elsewhere, mostly collected by John Hebden and David Jackson.

Hedges

• The Hedges of Stafford/Prince William Counties Virginia 1660-1980 (Robert Hedges) [not available, 9 June 2011; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2009]
  The sections on "Research in England" include numerous notes of medieval occurrences of the surname Hedges and variants.

Hellesby

• Hellesby of Hellesby (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hchelles.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned chart pedigree from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Hereford

• William fitz Osbern (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Hereward

• David Roffe, Hereward 'the Wake' and the Barony of Bourne: a Reassessment of a Fenland Legend [Lincolnshire] (David Roffe, Publications)
  Text of a paper published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 29, pp. 7-10 (1994)

Heveningham

• Heveningham Family of Suffolk, Norfolk and Staffordshire (Rosemary St Leger-May) [not available, 19 April 2015; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from July 2009]
  Includes detailed information on the Heveningham family of Suffolk, and later of Norfolk (15th century) and Staffordshire (16th century)

Hinton

• Hinton Family (Ashley A. Howell)
  Narrative pedigree, from the 11th century onwards, from secondary sources; originally of Hinton Woodford, Northamptonshire. Formerly at http://www.oedgs.com/hintonancestors.htm - these pages have been taken offline pending the setting up of a new website

Hobkin: see Worth

Hockin

• The Hockin Family of Gwithian, Cornwall (Kathie Weigel, Cornish Genealogy Database)
  Annotated pedigree, 16th century and later.

Hodsoll

• Wills and other records relating to the family of Hodsoll (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of an article by James Greenstreet, published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 14, pp. 223-240 (1882), including some 16th0-century material

Holand

• The Alleged Gresley-Swinnerton Marriage: A Closer Examination (Nathaniel L. Taylor; PDF file)
  Discussion of the identity of Alice, wife of Sir John Gresley of Drakelowe, Derbyshire, and of the wife of Sir Thomas Swinnerton (d. 1361).

Holme

• Indenture of John Holme of Holme and Elizabeth, his wife, 1432 (this site)
  Photograph and translation.

Hoo

• Charter of Sir William and Alice de Hoo for Sir Roger de Pedewardyne, 1366 (this site)
  Photographs, transcript and translation.

Hore/Hoar

• The Medieval Ancestry of Hezekiah Hoar (Lyon J. Hoard and Ken Smallbone) [formerly at http://pages.prodigy.net/hoard/HezekiahHoar.htm; not available, 3 July 2002; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2001]
  History and heraldry of the Hore family of Rushford in Devon (12th-14th century)

Houby/Juby

• The Ancient History and Armorial Bearings of the Family of de Huby/Juby (Bernard Juby) [not available, 9 March 2019; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2012]
  Brief notes and a pedigree, Leicestershire and East Anglia, 12th century and later

Howard

• Receipt issued to Bartholomew Kempe on behalf of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, 1544 (this site)
  Photograph, transcript and translation.

Hulbert

• English Hurlbut Ancestors, including The Hulbert Family, 1305- (Henry Carlton Hulbert/Arthur C. Hurlburt)
  Various counties; as the web site notes, the evidence for the connection to emigrants to America should be treated with great caution, owing to its association with the genealogical forger Gustave Anjou

Huntingfield

• Huntingfield Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 12th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Hussey

• The Hussey Millennium Manuscript Section Index (Gowen Research Foundation)
  A collection of detailed notes on Hussey families, from the 11th century onwards; the medieval and early modern English material is in the items numbered up to about 10. There are some odd statements about the Norman origins of the family, and it looks as though material from much later pedigrees is included, as well as record evidence, so this should be used with care

Hutchinson

• The Hutchinson Ancestry (David Blackwell) [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Brief notes; Lincolnshire, 16th century and later; extract from The American Ancestors of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)