Extracts from the family Bible of John Lucius Hedley — marriages and notes, 1802–1924
Book 1, Page 635 ·1802–1924
Transcription
A page of family-Bible extracts in faded ink, headed “(2)” within a small circle at the upper right.
Extracts from family Bible of John Lucius Hedley, brother of my grandmother, Maria Ann Hedley.
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On blank page in beginning of book is written: “The Altar bloomed June 14th, 1846 in Broad Street near Friend Street” —
[Pencilled annotation in parentheses, by Minnie P. FitzSimons in 1924:] (They owned and occupied then the house now owned by J. B. Bryant — on Broad St.) — Minnie P. FitzSimons. 1924.
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Married —
John L. Hedley to Sarah J. Bryant Nov. 9th 1826.
Married —
Benjamin J. Whaley to Sarah Jane Hedley May 10th 1849.
John Lucius Hedley, the son of the Rev.d Dr. John Hedley, D.D. was born in Newick Town near London, England. May 26, 1802.
AI Notes
A page of handwritten notes in flowing ink (now badly faded, with heavy bleed-through from the verso), headed ‘(2)’ within a circle at the upper right — so this is the second sheet of a multi-sheet memo by the same hand; the first sheet was not preserved in the album. The page records extracts from the family Bible of John Lucius Hedley, brother of Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons’s grandmother Maria Ann Hedley. A 2026-05-18 re-pass using background-flattened high-resolution crops resolved the long parenthetical 1924 footnote (see body) — the earlier transcription read ‘This house and surroundings then [the house?] now owned by J. B. Bryant — on Broad St.’; the corrected reading is ‘They owned and occupied then the house now owned by J. B. Bryant — on Broad St.’, i.e., the Hedleys owned and occupied the house Bryant occupies in 1924.
The ‘Altar bloomed’ entry is the Bryants’ Bible note marking the day of John L. Hedley’s marriage to their daughter Sarah J. Bryant in June 1846 — but the marriage entry below it gives 9 Nov 1826. Either the wedding was 1826 and the 1846 ‘Altar bloomed’ note records a 20th-anniversary remembrance, or the dates are differently anchored. The cursive consistently reads ‘Hedley’; the family memorandum on book-002/pp031–032 also uses ‘Hedley’ (Mr. Hedley, the English schoolmaster grandfather). The writer’s reference to ‘my grandmother Maria Ann Hedley’ identifies the writer as a Hedley granddaughter — Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (Minnie Sr.) is the granddaughter who would so identify Maria Ann Hedley.
The Hedleys are the compiler’s mother’s maternal line. Maria Ann Hedley (sister of John Lucius) married Mr. Mauger and then Edward Perry and finally Col. Wm. Fuller, becoming the grandmother of Minnie Perry FitzSimons and the great-grandmother of the compiler Amy. The transcriber ‘Minnie P. FitzSimons’ is Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons, the compiler’s mother, working from the original Hedley family Bible in 1924 — ten years before her own death.