Haskell Journal, issue 20, Fall 1988
Richard and Dorothy Hascall
by Iris M. Green, BA
Tax records suggest that William Haskell was a blacksmith by trade. He was a blacksmith by trade and was a churchwarden, the principal lay officer of the parish, of the Charlton Musgrove Parish in 1627/28. According to church records, he was buried on 11 May 1630 in the church cemetery (that is now the front yard) of St. Stephen's Church in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England. The original grave may have been marked by a stone laid flat, but no evidence of the marker or burial site remains.There is no certain record of William's parents and siblings other than he had a brother, Mark, who was about ten years older. Mark remained in England, married a woman whose first name was Melior, and moved from Charlton Musgrove to Penselwood, the next parish east, in 1635. Mark's niece, Cecille, who also remained in England, stayed with them in Penselwood until she married 30 July 1637. Mark was born between 1565 and 1568.
References
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
by Ira J. Haskell, Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA, 1943;Haskell Journal, Issue 32, Summer/Fall 1992
Chronicles of the Haskell Family: The English Background and First Generation
by Mrs. Marion S. Anderson, published as a preliminary extract of a larger work
Page 526
_____William Haskell was from a branch of the Haskell family that lived in the northernmost part of Dorsetshire -- in Motcombe, a sub-parish of Gillingham, which had a nearby protected forest and a manor described during the reign of Elizabeth I as "...Her Majesty's Park and Forest of Gillingham". The Gillingham/Motcombe Haskell's were a separate branch who were blacksmiths. Both William , born about 1578, and his older brother Mark, born about 1568, worked as underkeepers of game at separate locations around Gillingham and were joint tenants in Motcombe, as shown in the manor surveys from 1600 to 1610. During this time they paid an extra property tax for "forges" indicating that they made their primary living at the family trade of blacksmithing.
After the death of Elizabeth I and the accession of James 1, Gillingham was deforested and laid down to pasture, becoming "...one of the richest expanses of grazing land in the west of England." The resulting economic changes apparently forced Mark and William to move elsewhere. About 1610 William moved to Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, some 30 miles from Motcombe. There he assumed a copyhold (or other type) of tenancy to which Elinor, his wife, may have had inheritance rights. Mark followed shortly after and in a 1618 deposition describes himself as '...of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, yeoman age 50... ". The probability is that William was also a yeoman. In 1621 Mark and William paid taxes and tithes as joint tenants. In the mid-1620's both Mark and William served terms as overseers of the poor for the parish. On the overseer's accounts Mark's "signature mark" is shown as "M M" and William's mark "W W".
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 34, Spring 1993
Richard Window, William Haskell and subsequent owners of a 1651 grant of land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts
page 560
_____In 2013 DNA reseach was conducted on 3 descendants of William Haskell; Roger [Tom Haskell], William [Carey Haskell] and Mark [Dick Haskell]. This test confirmed that they were descended from William.
Peter Haskell of England took the same DNA test. The result indicated a very high probababilty (98%) that these 4 people share a common ancestor within the past 13 generations.
A review of past studies indicates that the common ancestor is William Hascall who died before 1514 in Fontmell Magna. .
A review of past studies provides this likely lineage.
1) Willam Haskell (1575-1630) married Elinor Foule 1610
2) William Hascall Jr. (1540-1575) married Elizabeth Rake circa 1564
3) William Hascall married Joan Foyle circa 1539
4) William Hascall (1490-1542) who lived in Fontmell MagnaReference Haskell Journal, Issue 93, Spring 2014
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_____Haskell surname data in court and parish records that go back to the early Sixteenth Century provide the earliest evidence of Haskell residence for key Dorsetshire manors of Fontmell Magna in 1513, Motcombe in 1520, Melbury Abbas in 1523, and Cann in 1523. At the time, Haskells were living in these parishes, but nowhere else in all England, substantiating the claim that all Haskells have a single geographic heritage. From these key manors in Dorsetshire, the Haskell family spread to other villages in Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, and then to other countries: USA in 1635, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in 1850, and South Africa in 1898.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 12, Autumn 1986
Origins of the Haskell Family: Earliest Parish Recorded Dates of Haskell Family Residence in Towns and Counties of Great Britain
compiled by N. H. Haskell and W. A. Haskell
Page 2
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William and Elinor [Foule] Haskell had seven children. NOTE: the children's birthdates given here are baptismal dates as recorded in the Parish Registers of St. Stephen's Church, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset. According to common practice at the time, children were baptised as soon as possible after birth.
Elinor/Ellin Foule's maiden surname is variously reported as Foule, Frowde, or Cook.
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Elinor's place and date of birth are not known. Her birth date is estimated based on the date of her marriage to William and the baptismal dates of their seven children that are recorded in the Charlton Musgrove Parish Registers.
_____Sometime after her husband William's death in 1630 and whether in England or New England is uncertain, the widow Ellin/Elinor married as her second husband and his second wife, one John Stone. Stone had two sons, John and Nathaniel, by a previous marriage. The date when Ellin/Elinor and the Haskell children, Roger, Willliam, and Joan, and Stone and his two sons emmigrated from England to Massachusetts is unknown. The only possible clue found thus far is:
"9 April 1635, In the Elizabeth de London prd Mr. William Stagg bound for New England The underwritten names have brought Cert. from ye Minister of Hauckust in Kent (Attestation from two Justices of the Peace, being comfortable to the Church of England) that they are no Subsedy Men. "
Among the names listed, John Stone age 40 yrs. In any case, the family was certainly in New England by 1636 when Roger Haskell was granted twenty acres of land in Salem.
The Stone family settled on the Basse River side of Salem, MA, the part that is now Beverly, then known as Cape Ann side. Here Stone kept a ferry between 26 December 1636 and 25 December 1639 (Perley, 1:405). Stone received ten acres of land in Salem in 1636 and an additional thirty acres on 1 January 1638 (Perley, 1:457). Doubtless, the younger Haskells, Roger, William, and Joan, were among the seven members of Stone's family in 1637 when he was granted an additional acre of land in Salem (Perley, 1:460).
Roger Haskell made his will on 27 May 1667 and in it he referred to John Stone as his father-in-law, a term once synonomous with step-father, which certainly adds credence to the belief that Stone was indeed Elinor (Foule) Haskell's second husband (ECQCR III:427,428). Although Elinor's name is conspicuously absent from the records she was mentioned in the court records in November 1660 when she was called, "Ellin, wife of John Stone Sr." (ECQCR II:252). Neither Elinor nor John's death dates are known however, Elinor apparently died between 22 November 1662 when John referred to "Elinor my now wife," in a deed and 1667 when her son Roger made his will (ECQCR III:427, 428). In a letter dated 19 March 1926, the late Charles Banks alluded to a will made by Mrs. Elinor Stone, in which she made bequests to her sons, Roger, William, and Mark Haskell, but if such a document ever existed it did not survive in the records. John Stone died between 8 April 1669 when he acknowledged a deed to William Dodge (Essex Co. Deeds, 3:61) and 1677 when his son John and wife were called John Stone Sr. and wife Abigail.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 32, Summmer/Fall 1992
Chronicles of the Haskell Family: The English Background and First Generation
compiled by Mrs. Marion S. Anderson and published as a preliminary extract of a larger work
footnotes
Sidney Perley, History of Salem (Salem, MA:Sidney Perley, 1924) I, 456; hereafter cited as Perley.
Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, (Salem: Essex Institute, 1913); hereafter cited as ECQCR.
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William and Elinor [Foule] Haskell had seven known children. The children's "birthdates" are baptismal dates.Probably in the spring of 1635 or 1636, John Stone, Elinor, and three of her Haskell children (Roger, age 21, William 16, and Joan 6) sailed from England (most likely from Bristol) and settled in the "Basse River" section (Cape Ann side, now Beverly) of Salem, Massachusetts. John Stone engaged in farming and fishing but also operated a ferry across the Basse River between the two settlements. It is not known with any certainty whether John Stone's sons of his earlier marriage accompanied their father to New England.
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Only some of the Haskell children made the passage from England to Massachusetts with their mother and stepfather. Cecille, age 19, stayed with her uncle Mark and his wife Melior, who removed, by September 1635, to Penselwood, the next parish east of Charlton Musgrove. On 30 July 1637 Cecille married Edward Cobe of Wincanton at the Penselwood parish church. Of Dorothy, who would have been 12 years old, or of Elizabeth, who would have been 7 in 1635, no record other than their baptismal dates has been found either in England or in The New World.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 34, Spring 1993
Richard Window, William Haskell and subsequent owners of a 1651 grant of land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts
except from page 560
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The youngest son, Mark remained in England, and did not immigrate before 1644.
June 5, 1616 is her baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
Cecille Haskell remained in England after the departure of her mother, step-father, and her two brothers, William and Roger, to Massachusetts. She married Edward Cobe of Wincanton, Somerset, on 30 July, 1637, at Penselwood. It is assumed she and her husband remained in England but there is no known further record of her life.
November 16, 1623 is her baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
She might have died young. There is no further information.
Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
April 30, 1628 is her baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
She might have died young. There is no further information.
Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
March 1 1628/29 is her baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
Joan Haskell, in the company of her two brothers, William and Roger, her step-father and mother, John and Elinor Stone, and perhaps two sons of John Stone's previous marriage, sailed from England probably in the spring of 1635 and settled in the "Basse River" section (Cape Ann side, now Beverly, MA) of Salem, Massachusetts.
The only mention of Joan is in the Will of her brother Roger in 1667,
"I likewise give to my sister Joane a heifer as soone as the calfe is taken of"