EARLY HINDS FAMILY HISTORY
The first record found for any Hinds is a marriage
banns for John Hinds and Elizabeth Russel. The
marriage which took place 14 February 1792 is recorded
in the Faldingworth, Lincolnshire, England, parish
records.
The Faldingworth Parish records indicate that
Elizabeth Russel, daughter of William and Susanna
Russel, was baptized 4 January 1772. Baptisms for
three other children of William and Susanna Russel are
also listed. According to the parish records William
Russel was buried 17 December 1781. No other
information about Susanna was located.
Baptism records for nine children of John Hinds and
Elizabeth Russel are recorded in the Faldingworth
Parish records.
Robert was baptized 7 July 1793
Mary was baptized 20 December 1795
William was baptized 13 May 1798
Catherine was baptized 19 April 1801
Elizabeth was baptized 19 September 1803
John Hinds Jr. was baptized 15 December 1805
George was baptized 4 April 1808
Thomas was baptized 17 December 1811
James was baptized 12 July 1815
Three additional records:
Boston Parish records indicate William Hind and
Elizabeth Wells were married 27 July 1818. This could
possibly be William, son of John Hinds and Elizabeth
Russel.
Faldingworth Parish records indicate William Dunnil
of Selby, Yorkshire, and Catherine Hinds were married
26 January, 1821, with the consent of John Hinds, her
natural father.
Faldingworth Parish records indicate George Bayles of
Welton by Lincoln and Elizabeth Hinds were married 21
May, 1821.
One interesting note - both Catherine and Elizabeth
were married by license rather than church banns.
According to a Lincolnshire researcher this is an
indication that the family had money and/or the family
wanted to keep the marriage a private affair.
On 27 May 1822, the ship Thames arrived safely in New
York having departed from London, England. Included
on the manifest were John and Elizabeth Hinds, along
with Robert, John Jr. and George Hinds. Also on the
list were George and Elizabeth Bayles and their infant
daughter, Sarah.
Why did John and Elizabeth Hinds and at least four of
their children decide to immigrate to America? No one
knows for sure but it is important to understand that
of the 68 or so passengers on the ship, at least 42
people representing seven families, all came directly
to Claridon Township, Marion County, Ohio.
The seven
families were not all from the same parish, but from
several parishes in somewhat close proximity. There
is one possibility. The Methodist Church was just
getting started in that area of England. At the time
if you were not a member in good standing of the
Anglican Church, you were considered a second class
citizen.
Did these seven families decide it was time
to go to the New World where everyone had the freedom
to worship in the Church of their choice?
Some more questions. Why did Catherine and her
husband decide to remain in England while Elizabeth
and her husband chose to immigrate? Mary, William,
Thomas, and James are not on the ship manifest.
Thomas appears to have been left off the list but he
did make the trip. Nothing is known about the other
three. Robert, the eldest son is on the list but no
record of him appears in Marion County. There were
many deaths in the first five years of life on the
frontier. Perhaps he, too, succumbed.
How did all these people get to Ohio? According to
Dorothy Strawser Klehm, Thomas' great-granddaughter,
they walked from Sandusky pushing and pulling a cart
of their belongings. Since it took the Bayles, and
presumably all the others, only five weeks to get to
Claridon from New York, it is assumed they took
advantage of that part of the Eric Canal that was
finished.
That meant they had to have taken a boat up
the Hudson River to Albany. There they would have
boarded a canal boat and traveled as far as they could
on the Canal. The rest of the way had to have been
overland to Erie. Then they probably caught a boat on
Lake Erie that would have taken them from Erie to
Sandusky. And how many days would it have taken to
walk the almost 90 miles from Sandusky to Claridon
Township?
Frontier life in Ohio in the early 1820's was not
easy. Land had to be purchased. Trees had to be
girdled. Crops had to be planted. Shelter was
critical. Most settlers tried to arrive in their new
location in late winter so they would have eight
months to prepare for the winter. If these families
arrived on July 4th, how did they manage to get
through the first winter? Those first few years must
have been a very difficult time. But most of them
survived.
John Hinds died 15 April 1834 and his wife, Elizabeth
died 1 March 1855. Both are buried in a small family
cemetery close to the Whetstone (now Olentangy) River
just north of the village of Claridon.
Catherine and her husband, William Dunhill, and their
adopted daughter eventually came to Marion County.
Their daughter, Rebecca, died 6 November 1862, and
Catherine died 22 November 1868. Both are buried in
the Thew Cemetery (sometimes called the English
cemetery), Claridon Township, Marion County. Shortly
after Catherine's death, William disposed of several
pieces of property and evidently left the state. Note
the spelling of Dunnil as used in England was changed
to Dunhill here in America.
George and Elizabeth Bayles had nine children, three
of whom served in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Several children migrated to Pulaski County, Indiana.
George and Elizabeth went out to visit and both died
there. George died 9 November 1853 and Elizabeth died
31 March 1864. They are both buried in the Buck
Cemetery, Van Buren Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
One son stayed in Indiana, all the other living
children returned to Marion County, Ohio.
John Hinds, Jr. married Maria Wade 11 September 1833
in Marion County. They had five children. John died
28 February 1874, Maria died 27 January 1879. Both
are buried in the North Canaan Cemetery, Canaan
Township, Morrow County, Ohio.
George Hinds married Elizabeth Martin 6 November 1834
in Crawford County, Ohio. They had ten children.
George died 14 March 1875, Elizabeth died 17 January
1869. Both are buried in the Thew Cemetery.
Thomas married Ann Bostock 14 November 1839 in
Richland County, Ohio. Ann was another passenger on
the ship Thames but her family did not settle in
Marion County. They had two children. Ann died 27
October 1845. Thomas then married Rebecca Ann
Carpenter 12 October 1848 in Marion County. They had
eight children. Thomas, Ann, and Rebecca are all
buried in the Thew Cemetery.
The above information was contributed by
Nancy Earl of Marion, Ohio
The following 200 plus years of information is provided by: W. E. "Gene" Hayes, GGGrandson of John Hinds,Jr.
John Hinds, Jr. was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to America in 1822. John married, in this county, in 1833, Maria Wade, the daughter of Zebulon and Susannah (Mann) Wade.
John and Maria would have 5 children John W., Joseph "Joe" Dunhill Hinds William Wade, Susan, and Robert. We know that Robert died February 18, 1872 and Susan was the wife of J. W. Curtis, died February 23, 1861.
John Hinds died February 28,1874 and his wife Maria died January 27, 1879.
Joseph "Joe" Dunhill Hinds, (Claridon Township) of the firm of Marggraf & Hinds, was born in Marion County September 10, 1852, the son of John and Maria (Wade) Hinds.
Having obtained a fair education in the district school, Mr. Joseph D. Hinds commenced to learn telegraphy in I867, which business he prosecuted for five years. After being inactive several years, he then engaged in farming four years in Union County, Ohio.
March 31, 1881, Joseph D. Hinds married Mantie B. Rogers, a daughter of Rowland H. and Mary J. (McKinney) Rogers.
They would have two children, Rowland R., born January 25, 1882 and Margaret M. Hinds, born May 30, 1888.
Margaret M. Hinds (1888-1981) would marry a (9th / generation) Orville Stanley Waugh (1896-1961)
The timeline of these to ancestors can be followed at THE WAUGH FAMILY HISTORY site.
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