Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 4 # 1, Page 6
HENRY AND THE HASKELLS OF WYLYE
by Muriel Smith
[William, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Stone) Haskell]The children of Henry and Mary Ann were not content with Wylye and agricultural labouring. William, whose first wife (Augusta Gray) died after the birth of their third child, became a coachman, and that was how he came to Hampshire after marrying my grandmother, Bertha Toogood of Mere, in 1899. He was coachman to the Vicar of North Baddesley, near Southampton, where his elder children were born, including in 1906 my mother's sister Doris who now lives in Bournemouth. William and Bertha then moved to nearby Chandler's Ford, where my mother Sylvia May and her sister Kathleen were born. William went into business, first into market gardening and then as a haulage contractor. His horse and cart eventually became a fleet of lorries and he was joined in the business by his son Leonard Charles. Bertha was kept busy looking after their five children and running a sweet shop which was next to their home and the business premises.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 3 # 2, Page 12Herbert George Haskell, b. 9 March 1908, Devizes, Wilts. died 1 July 1989 at his home in Gillingham, Dorset. He was the son of George and Annie Lillian (Way) Haskell and brother of Lillian Edith Irene Haskell, descendants of the Wylye, Wilts., family who originated in Donhead St. Andrew. He became a professional photographer and for many years maintained a studio at Portsmouth, Hants., before joining the P & O (the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) cruise ships on the Scandanavia and Maderia runs as official photographer.
He married 27 April 1937 Irene Hirst of Doncaster, Yorks, who predeceased him. He served throughout WWII in the RAF in both North Africa and Italy. At the close of the war he joined a chemical firm doing research in photography and on retirement a few years ago settled in Gillingham, not far from his family origins.