The Family of Susanna Walter and George Philip Hayes
A genealogical account of the family of Susanna and George Philip Hayes
Chapel, Somerton
Susanna Walter was the daughter of , Somerset, England.
Susanna Walter aged 20 is listed in the 1871 census in Babcary described as a governess and living with Ann and
Walter Walter and brother Gaius. That year she was the informant (present at death) on the death certificate of her grandmother
Lucy Penny who died in Babcary and was subsequently buried in St Michaels, Somerton. Susanna was a beneficiary in Lucy's will.
In 1881 she was governess in the household of the Hill family, farmers in Tarrant
Hinton, Dorset.
Giving her name as Susan and without noting that her father was deceased she married
George Philip Hayes (b.1858 Yeovil; died 1920 New Forest) in the Wesleyan Chapel, Somerton in October 1886,
witnessed by her brother Jacob and George's sister Ellen Elizabeth Hayes. George was a draper and clothier
from Ashcott, Somerset, the son of John Hayes (1830-1917) a candle manufacturer and his wife Elizabeth
(1831-1913). George and Susanna had children including:
- William Hugh G. Hayes (1888-1954; died Islington)
- Ivy Marian (1889-1979; died West Somerset)
- Walter Benson (b. 1890)
In 1891 they were living in High Street, Glastonbury and the household included Albert Walter
(12) a visitor born in Wales (Susanna's brother David's son). Perhaps coincidentally one of the boarders and drapery
assistants was Julia Richards (25) from Pontypridd.
In 1901 Susanna, George, Ivy and Walter were living in King Street, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. By 1911,
they had moved to High Street, Rickmansworth, William had returned and Walter had left. Susanna died in Watford District
in June 1913.
William Hayes married Emily Arbery in Yeovil in June 1914 and had children including:
John Hugh G. Hayes (born 22nd November 1914; registered March 1915; died May 1984 in Sedgemoor),
William R. Hayes (b.1916) and Maxwell Phillip Hayes (1919-2003; died Ashford, Kent).
Walter Hayes may have married Alice Lyon in Barton upon Irwell (Lancashire) in December 1913
and had children including: Walter Hayes (b.1915), John Hayes (b.1921), and Margaret Hayes (b.1923).
John Hugh Hayes married Dawn Lloyd Weston (1917-2005) in Upton in 1946.
Benson Hayes married Laura E. Urquhart in New Forest district in September quarter 1917. They had
no children.
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