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96 69. —The following briefs are copied out of the Register of Hartburn Parish, in the co. of Northumberland:—

70. —Can anyone give information regarding a family of Haydon, living at Crediton early in the eighteenth century. The head of the family was, I believe, a serge weaver, whose Christian name was Nathaniel, and who is buried in the parish church. He had several children; the son of the eldest, Rebecca, born in 1737, married the daughter of the Rev. John Rudall, Vicar of Crediton. This Rebecca Haydon married one Harvey (?) who was Paymaster Sergeant of the Devon Militia in 1796. He got into trouble during the war with France whilst Purser of H.M.S. Arethusa, and changed his name to his wife's maiden name in order to escape, and from him I am descended. What I want to know is the name of this man and to obtain information as to Rebecca's parents and ancestors. I know there were Haydons in Crediton in the sixteenth century, possibly younger branches of the Cadhay family. I also know that Nicholas Haydon (1620-1676), the eighth son of Nicholas Haydon of Cadhay, married Anne Trosse of Exeter, whose mother was named Rebecca, and that he called his eldest daughter after her. As this name had never before appeared in the family, it seems a fair inference that my Rebecca came from the daughter of Nicholas.