Haggerston Park
Haggerston Station, ca. 1932
Epiphany in a Haggerston Church
This interesting surname is of English locational
origin, from one of two places named Haggerston. The Haggerston, in
Middlesex is recorded as "Hergotestane" in the Domesday Book of 1086,
and translates as "Heregod's stone", with Heregod being possibly an old
English pre 7th century baptismal name. The second Haggerston, this time
in the county of Northumberland is recorded as "Agardeston" in the Pipe
Rolls of the county for the year 1196. In this case the first element
is probably French and derived from the word "hagard" meaning wild or
strange. The seal of Hugo de Hagarstn is appended to a charter of the
lands of Balesdom to the monks of St. Cuthbert of Durham, in the 13th
century. Examples of the name recording in surviving church registers
include: on February 16th 1595, Robert Haggerstone, who was christened
at Holy Island, Northumberland, and Jeane Haggerstone, the daughter of
Nicholas Haggerstone, who was christened on November 10th 1611, at St.
John's, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. The first recorded spelling
of the family name is believed to be that of Elizabeth Haggerston, who
married Edward Harrison, on July 25th 1574, at Berwick upon Tweed,
Northumberland. This was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st of
England.
From a clergy Hugh Wilkinson
Goodhart (1885-90) – he ran the Parish Church
Youths' Institute here, before succeeding Samuel Stone (who wrote The
church's one foundation and other hymns) as incumbent in Haggerston. Stone wrote that his nerves were too worn out for
Haggerston any longer -
http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/ant/mickspea.xml;query=
Reference code: GB-0033-MSP
Title: Mickleton and Spearman MSS
Dates of creation: later 13th century to 18th century, mostly later 17th century
Extent: 103 volumes & 3 rolls
f.15r-119r
Chronological sequence of document transcripts and summaries Edward II
to James I.
f.113-114
Letter from W. Smyth, recorder of Barwick, sending a copy indictment
(not present) to [Richard Neile] bishop of Durham about Agnes Haggerston, aged 12 or 13, and asking for her to be pardoned, Durham 29 October 1618.
http://www.myetymology.com/encyclopedia/Edmund_Halley.htm
Edmund Halley or Edmond Halley ( 29 of October of 1656 -
14 of January of 1742 ). Son of an accumulated
soap manufacturer, was born in
Haggerston, near London in 1656. To the 17 years moved to Oxford.
From very young it felt a great inclination by the mathematics and interested in the
investigation of skies in the real astronomer, John Flamsteed (1646-1719). In 1676 published in " Philosophical Transactions" a
dissertation
on the theory of planets, and in the same year moved to the island of
Santa Helena to observe stars of the austral sky and to make a catalog
of the same: one took clocks, micrometers and a great refractor
telescope of 7.3 meters in length that used with great benefit, in spite
of the bad atmospheric conditions; the result was " Catalogus stellarun
australium", published in London in 1679, work that tabula
the position of 341 austral stars.
Friend of
Isaac Newton
(1642-1727).
Haggerston Catechism
Composed by Fr HA Wilson in the years around the War and published in
seven parts in later years. They aren't very common as they were printed
on floppy paper, and having bought the sections that survive in
reasonable numbers I'm now down to the rarer ones;
Fr Wilson's catechism classes was that they
comprised a two-year introduction to the Christian faith for children,
spread out over a full 120 sessions. There was an assumption, probably
in those days not completely unrealistic, that children would be there
on most of those weeks. They also must have been pretty attentive for
any of it to go in.
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