Hedley family Bible record (page 2 of 3): marriage of Rev. John Hedley and deaths in his family, transcribed by Minnie P. FitzSimons, 1924
Book 1, Page 636 ·1832–1924
Transcription
The second sheet of Minnie P. FitzSimons’s 1924 Hedley Bible transcription, in brown ink on laid paper. Headed “(3)” within a small circle at the upper right. The page is folded vertically. Below the death register, two parenthetical entries appear in slightly fresher ink, bracketed in the left margin by a vertical pencilled note (rotated to read with the head tilted left): “Sisters of John Hedley.”
…and came to Charleston with his parents in his infancy. The Rev. John Hedley was married to Miss Sarah Russell in St. Mary’s Church, London. He was the son of Roger Hedley of Callowhill, Northumberland — Eng.
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Deaths.
The Rev. John Hedley D.D. about 68 yrs. — father of John L. Hedley — died on the 9th of February 1832. Buried in St. Michael’s Church yard.
William Hedley, aged 28 yrs. 6 mo. & 28 days, brother of J. L. Hedley, died on the morning of the 19th of December 1832. Buried in St. Michael’s Church yard.
John Lucius Hedley died on the 3rd day of January 1853, after having sustained three strokes of paralysis, at his residence on 15 King St., in the 55th year of his age.
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[Two parenthetical entries follow, bracketed in the left margin by a rotated pencil annotation:] Sisters of John Hedley.
(Eliza Steele, née Hedley, buried in St. Paul’s Church yard.)
(Maria Ann Fuller, née Hedley, buried in Church yard of Baptist Church in Barnwell, S.C.)
[Pencilled at the bottom of the page:] Inserted by Minnie P. FitzSimons. 1924.
AI Notes
Continuation of Minnie P. FitzSimons’s 1924 transcription from John Lucius Hedley’s family Bible — second sheet, headed ‘(3)’ within a circle at the upper right; continues from p635. The page opens mid-sentence (John Lucius Hedley “and came to Charleston with his parents in his infancy”), then completes the parental record with Rev. John Hedley’s marriage to Sarah Russell at St. Mary’s Church, London, and his patrimony as the son of Roger Hedley of Callowhill, Northumberland. The remainder of the page is a chronological Deaths register — Rev. John Hedley (1832, St. Michael’s churchyard, Charleston); his son William Hedley (also 1832, also St. Michael’s); and John Lucius Hedley himself (1853, after three strokes of paralysis, age 55, residence 15 King Street, Charleston).
Two parenthetical entries are added at the foot in a slightly fresher ink, with a rotated pencil margin note in Minnie’s hand bracketing them: “Sisters of John Hedley.” — establishing that Eliza Steele (née Hedley) and Maria Ann Fuller (née Hedley) are John Lucius Hedley’s sisters. Maria Ann Fuller is the compiler Amy’s great-grandmother — sister to the John Lucius Hedley whose Bible is the source of these extracts, wife of (in succession) a Mauger, of Edward Perry, and of Col. Wm. Fuller. She is buried at the Baptist Church yard in Barnwell, S.C. — a different burial place from her brother’s St. Michael’s, Charleston, consistent with her late-life remarriage to a Beaufort/Barnwell husband.
A 2026-05-18 re-pass normalised the body to the album’s standard blockquote transcription style for consistency with p635 and p637.