Memorial to Henry & Alice Hawley, once in St Lawrence’s Church (Yale CBA)

The Local and Global Impact of the Hawley family of Brentford
Monday 16 September 7.30pm

In this illustrated talk Sarah Barber of Lancaster University will be sharing her recent research into three generations of the Hawleys of Brentford and their colonial rule in the East and West Indies.

This will be an in-person event at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4, and it will also be offered via Zoom. The Zoom will open at 7.15; the meeting starts at 7.30.

There is no charge to join this event but if you want to join on-line, please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor at: https://buytickets.at/brentfordchiswicklocalhistorysociety/1393554. Your ticket will provide the Zoom joining details.

The Hawleys were prominent local citizens who at one period owned Brentford Market.

Brentford Market Place, early 19th century

After the talk, Prof Sarah Barber supplied links to some of the sources she had used.
Richard Ligon’s pamphlet, The True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados, first published in 1657 by Humphrey Moseley in London, is available as a Gutenberg Project etext – this has a version of the original illustrations, including the map.

There is a generally available database produced by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, called the JCB digital map collection (there are other available databases through this portal which are well worth a look). From the main page type the word ‘Barbados’ into the search box to reveal a number of different types of sources, including a copy of the map that appears in Ligon and copies of Frere’s History of Barbados of 1768 which describes Henry Hawley as of ‘arbitrary and violent disposition’.

The pamphlet published in Barbados in 1741 as Some Memoirs of the First Settlement of the Island of Barbados is reproduced by Archive.org.
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