Feb 2000.

Letter from Anne Baulne, Duncan BC, February 2000 concerning the family of her grandmother Gladys Margaret Haine.

May 2000.

Letter from Shirley Haine. I am sending you a copy of a tree that I got my mother to make for me (she died in 1978) - you might find it of interest, but there are no dates given

Apr 2000.

Biographies received from Charles Hawkins of Pliny, Milner, Pliny’s parents and grandparents. Revised versions sent Nov 2004.

June 2000.

Find information about the family of Jane Haine and William Henry Cole in Australia

June 2000.

Find will of Douglas Wood.

July 2000.

Visited Kingsley Padfield

August 2000.

Letter from Barbara Lowrie, granddaughter of Arnold Evans Olver.

Sept 2000.

Attend the Haine Reunion in Ohio, USA. What a fantastic occasion - everyone so welcoming.

Dec 2000.

From Tricia Haine, Blue Tides Beachfront Retreat Bed and Breakfast, New Zealand: David Hi, your wonderful book arrived at Mothers yesterday. She rang and I drove over to see it. Well done it's wonderful !!!!!!!!!, what a huge job it has been, but what an amazing result!

2000.

By email Dean Haine, Michael Haine (Warks), Michael Haine (David, thank you for the excellent book. I was staggered at the extent and excellence of your research. I must be honest I would have liked to see the Australian side of the tree better represented.), Robert Haine

New cousins emerged: Karen DeBartolo, Lisa Hoffman, Susan Haine.

Jan 2001.

The Road to Union was screened on CBC, Canada as part of the People’s History series. Mercy Coles, diarist, one of many family member who accompanied delegates to the historic Quebec Conference of October 1864 was portrayed by an attractive actress. Found on the National Archives of Canada website Oct 2003.

Feb 2001.

Letter from Bill Collett, Snitterfield, Warwickshire.

April 2001.

Met Janet Hall. She showed me a photograph of Martha (nee Haine) as an old lady with grandchildren. There was a pretty young woman who we think must be Elizabeth Haine Padfield, who predeceased her mother.

May 2001.

I visited Birtsmorton Court.

July 2001.

Hi David, At last I have found how to contact you again. The family book you sent my Mum is so wonderful, I would like to again thank you for all the work that went into it, it is such a treasure. A week ago I took my Mother to New Plymouth to visit the elderly Aunts, my father’s (Bob Haine) sisters. Lass and Madge are now 89 and 86, both still living in their homes but with help. We had a gathering of as many family members as were able to come and we showed them your book.They were all overwhelmed and thrilled to see all the details. The tree and book references were pored over for hours and a lot of remembering was done. There have been some great old photos come to light as well. Over time I will try to peace together all the things that are being remembered so that we have some sort of a story to the lives of the Evan generations.

August 2001.

Acquired volume of the diaries of Josiah Jackson, having spent an unproductive afternoon in Bruton in April/May trying to track down the 'author' (and a copy of the book). He has a long grey beard, you'll find him on a bicycle...

Sep 2001.

Kingsley Padfield. I was most interested in Autograph book and old photos you have recently received, if there is any chance of you scanning any relevant photos for me I would gladly cover your expenses. Those quotes from my mother were priceless and very typical, both she and my father had a keen sense of humour.

Sept 2001.

Met Norah Massey (86) and Geoff Green (81) in Dorset and on the Dorset-Somerset border, September 2001. Geoff was my closest farming relative. He died two months later. Norah Massey passed me a set of photographs and the 1823 grammar book of Joseph Haine (1811). Geoff passed me a box of photographs and the autograph book of Gussie Creed.

Nov 2001.

Received email from Caroline Olver Fawcett.

Aug 2002.

Emails from Eleanore Dempster with more information about Arthur William Haine (E27) with email photographs. Notable ones: George Edward Haine, Arthur Douglas Bell.

2003.

Discovered that one of the Millears was married to a former Governor of the State of New South Wales, Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin

2003.

Find out about the message from beyond the grave of Nellie Shearman, also that her stepfather was first married to a daughter of Richard Haworth, the Salford mill owner.

Oct 2003.

Find that a life of Randall Swingler (B40) was launched in Clerkenwell Green this month.

November 2003.

I found Augustus Lewis living in 1920 with his niece Ida, by now married to G W Taylor a life insurance agent and living at 6352 Washington Boulevard, St Louis. I noted that Ida’s age had been under-represented and that the Taylors had a German chauffeur who lived with the family. I got lucky with the Washington University website, it appears the Catholic Student Center is now based at 6352 Washington Blvd, and the website gave a full biography of Ida Taylor, mentioning that her brother was founder of TUMS.

2004.

Find considerable information about the family in the online attestation papers and certificates of medical examination for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force and the Ellis Island Database.

2004.

Found that Ellen Jacobs became pregnant and remarried to a dentist. The family lived at Fremantle with the three youngest Jacobs children and two new children of her own. Ellen was a private governess and ten years later her youngest daughters were with her as assistant teachers.

2004.

Freebmd.rootsweb.com. Finding the name of Mary Rebecca Palmer’s first husband, her second husband was Francis Martin Haine (E49).

2004.

More data concerning their being an earlier brother for E59, Edmund Robert Haine, with the same name.

2004.

Found various biographies of Methodist ministers, Who’s Who in Methodism 1933: Charles Penney Hunt, Ernest James Padfield, Albert Haine Creed, McAulay William Powell. Also the obituary of Ernest James Padfield.

Mar 2004.

I read about Mr Tory in a photocopy of the book of Pimperne. Mr Tory said that he would put every son into a 1000-acre farm and that every daughter would marry a 1000-acre farmer. One of his daughters married William Taylor, grandson of Sarah Parsons later Haine. Mr Tory’s ambition was achieved.

Mar 2004.

Letter from Phil Ramsay, Walnut California following my letter to his cousin Merideth in Dorset. It emerged that Jonas Maby junior died 1894 at Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire and that Patience died with her sons in Cheltenham in 1923 age 86. Patience was of a very competent and business-like stock, also a determined and prolific woman, though petite in build.

Apr 2004.

The emergence of the Maby tree, first mentioned in Margaret Haine’s letter (1950), a poor copy seen in Phil Ramsay’s correspondence and now known to be with the Doel family at Lacock, Wiltshire.

May 2004.

A newspaper cutting filed with the Padfield Journal had been transcribed: “Pilton - Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Meeting held in newly renovated Wesleyan chapel. Mr and Mrs Haine provided tea. Mr Haine as the brother-in-law of a West Indian Missionary fittingly occupied the chair.” This admission was completely new. I discussed the conundrum with my cousins, over from the States, as we sat with my co-researcher Hanna, in London. We had to conclude that the most likely candidate for the hitherto unknown ‘West Indian Missionary’ was James Edney, husband of Elizabeth Haine. Elizabeth being the older sister of William and Susannah and the only one of the dozen Haine children whose fate remained unknown.

Dec 2004.

I double-checked the will of Sarah Haine formerly Parsons and was intrigued by the mention of her daughter Ann Taylor nee Parsons as of course there was a woman of this name (wife of Thomas Taylor) based in Pimperne. It turns out this is the same one. The connection with the Taylors got more and more complicated. William Haine's stepdaughter Ann Parsons married Thomas Taylor, his half-brother Jonas Maby married Thomas’s sister Patience Taylor and his niece Annie Look Haine married Job Corry son of the Taylors' aunt Patience Taylor. In addition Annie and the younger Patience were the nieces of Sarah Look, William Haine's first wife, who was also his cousin. Plus there is the connection with the Cole children who grew up in Australia: the boy married William Haine’s daughter Jane while the girl married his stepson, George Parsons.

2005.

Summary of various deaths in the family not recorded in the first Haine Book: John Priday Haine 2002; Hilda Hunt 2000; RN Padfield 1998; Creeda Padfield 1999; Horace Godfrey 1998; Richard Leonard Creed 1998; Millis Steeds 1997; Edna Florence Lukehurst; Victor Duffett 2000, Gordon E Creed

Jan 2005.

2005.

Find Arnold Olver sailing from Liverpool in 1907, going to stay with his brother in San Francisco. Find both brothers in the 1920 census for California.

2005.

Keyed in information about Alfred Jacobs’s family, from wills obtained a few years before from Los Angeles.

Feb 2005.

Emails from Richard Corry and Joyce Sturt with quote from Joyce’s father’s diaries.

Thanks to all the new contributors