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(children of Joseph & Ellen)
Joseph and Elizabeth had five children:
From L to R:
Constance, Edith, Harry, Joseph Henry, William, Elizabeth (née Swinnerton), Douglas.
William was born in 1876 and was educated at the Middle school Newcastle. He afterwards made a study of languages and at nineteen became foreign correspondent to Messrs Black of Sheffield.
A year later he became a foreign traveller for Twyfords Sanitary potters at Cliffe Vale
Cliff Vale Potteries, occupied by Twyfords
At the age of twenty three joined the firm of George Howson and Sons Ltd, Eastwood Sanitary Works, as a foreign traveller. He became a director of the firm shortly after the First World War.
During the 1914-18 war, Arnold Bennett who was an old school friend, asked him to assist in his work for the government in promoting good relations between Britain and France and he was stationed first in Limoges and later in Paris . Bennett had a great admiration for William’s accomplishments. He could speak nine languages and was well known in most of the capitals in Europe.
Arnold Bennett - the famous writer
In 1904 he married in Ohio USA Eliza (Lida) Brice Wright, daughter of Judge Silas H Wright of Ohio, whom he met while studying languages in Germany. They lived at “ Fairmont”, Sandy Lane, Newcastle. They had no children.
During the 1920’s, family gatherings took place in the garden at Fairmont where William and Lida entertained his brother and sisters and their families on summer afternoons.
1925 - From L-R:
Top: Sarah Eliza Hawley, William Hawley; Coralie Hawley, Lida Hawley, William Beck, Harry Hawley,
Front: Constance Beck, (née Hawley),Elizabeth Hawley (née Swinnerton), Edith Edge (née Hawley)
William maintained an interest in his old school, later Wolstanton Grammar, and was one of the oldest old boys who regularly attended sports days, speech days and dramatic productions. Through his extensive travels he was well informed on many subjects but what endeared him to his friends was the charm and simplicity of his personal character and his kindly smile.
St. Giles Church, Newcastle
He was a sincerely religious man but through his wife was the first generation to move away from Methodism and he was a sidesman at St Giles church Newcastle for over thirty years. He died in 1946 following a stroke suffered while on holiday in Minehead.
WILLIAM SWINNERTON HAWLEY 1876-1948
Douglas was the youngest son and after a period living in Burton on Trent died young.
Constance was educated at the Orme Girls school and later became a teacher in Nottingham. She married William Beck, a bank manager and lived in Nantwich. She had a son William and a daughter Edith.
Edith married William Edge , a Newcastle chemist and lived on the Marsh in Wolstanton. In later years she married for a second time Colin Maclean and lived in Rhos on Sea where she died in 1961.
Harry was born in 1879 and trained as an electrical engineer, working in 1901 on the electrical tramway system in London. In 1904 he emigrated to New Zealand where he worked as an Electrical engineer at the hydro- electricity station at Okere Falls, near Rotorua. There he met and married Coralie , the widow of Alfred Wells – Ashcroft, Rector of Derby Tasmania.
On her mother’s side Coralie was descended from Kennedy Murray, one of the earliest Tasmanian pioneers, and Ann White who was transported on the second fleet in 1790. Coralie’s cousin was Lt Colonel Harry Murray VC the most decorated British and commonwealth soldier in the First World War.
Harry and Coralie Hawley moved from New Zealand to Queenstown, Tasmania where their son Douglas was born in 1916. Coralie already had a son Vernon (Bill)aged five, from her first marriage. Harry worked as an electrical engineer at the Mount Lyell copper mine.
In 1920 Harry decided to return to England taking his wife and family with him. They settled in Whitfield Avenue, Newcastle and later in Basford. Harry set up an Electrical supply company at the LMS Wharf in Stoke. He died in 1949 aged 69.
Harry’s son Douglas was educated at Newcastle High School and in 1934 joined Spode as a trainee. He studied ceramics at Stoke Technical College and before the war travelled as a salesman in the UK. During the war he was a Captain in the RASC serving in France and Germany. He returned to Spode after his war service and became Export Sales Manager, travelling the world.
DOUGLAS HAWLEY GREETING PRINCESS ALEXANDRA
ON THE SPODE STAND AT THE STOCKHOLM EXHIBITION 1962He spent one year as Sales Manager for Crown Derby before going back to Spode and then in 1968 moving to Wedgwood as European Sales Manager. At Wedgwood he was very successful at building up sales in Europe before his retirement in 1980.
During his long and happy retirement he wrote a detailed book on his experiences in the pottery industry from 1934 to 1980.
DOUGLAS HAWLEY RECEIVING THE SILVER MEDAL OF HONOUR OF THE
CITY OF PARIS IN RECOGNITION OF .......
‘THE LONG –STANDING EFFORTS
MADE BY MR HAWLEY TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF
GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRITAIN’
In 1952 he married Kathleen Litherland, eldest daughter of Albert Litherland, Chief Engineer at Wood and Sons for over fifty years. Douglas died in 2003.
Their son Julian was born in 1955 and he also worked in the ceramic industry for the first eight years of his career.
Sources: compiled from family documents by Julian Hawley. Additional information: Victoria History of Stafford vol VIII
Julian Hawley's relation to Elias is:Elias 1764-1828
Joseph 1794-1863William 1816-1876Joseph 1841-1918Harry 1879-1949Douglas 1916-2003Julian 1955
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updated 1 September 2005
