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The Beginning The name of Hathaway was derived from the residence of its first bearers at hathway, meaning "the heath-way" or "the road by the heath," in England. It is found on ancient records in the various forms of Heathway, Haythewy, Hatheway, Hatheway, Hathwaye, Hathweye, Hathwey, Hathway, Hadaway, Haddaway, Hadeway, Hathawaye, Hathawey, Hathaway, and others, of which the last spelling mentioned is that most generally in use in America today. Families bearing this name were resident at early dates in the English Counties of York, Oxford, Hereford, Warwick, Gloucester, Worcester, and in the city and vicinity of London. They appear to have been, for the most part, of the British landed gentry and yeomanry. |
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Early Days & Coat of Arms One of the earliest lines of the name in England was that of Nigel de Hathewey, who resided in Hereforshire in the early thirteenth century, between the years 1216 and 1271. He was the father of William and Juliana, of whom the first had a son, also named William. The double "d" found in Haddaway was pronounced by the Celts as the "th" sound we use today. The arms are: Haddaway, Scotch, Ar. 3 hunting horns, vert stringed sa. The crest borne is: An ostrich, wings addorsed; in mouth a horseshoe, ppr. Motto: Nil desperandum. The latin motto means "Never despair." |
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Rowland Haddaway & the Kentucky Clan Rowland Haddaway, the immigrant, arrived in the colony of Virginia some time before 1650. On January 25, 1659, Rowland Haddaway testified at court in Lancaster County, Virginia, that he was aged about 45 years or thereabouts and nine years before he together with Tomas Gaskin, Richard Budd, Abraham Moone and John Dennys had viewed certain lands at Fleet Bay to some of which they took title and this land adjoined a creek which they named "Haddaway's Creek." Sometime late in 1661 or early in 1662, Rowland Haddaway left Virginia and went to Maryland. His will, executed October 6, 1667, said he was "aged about sixty years or thereabouts." Two sons, Peter and George Haddaway, are mentioned in this will. The Kentucky Haddaway Clan's (descendant from Peter Haddaway, the son of Rowland Haddaway, the immigrant) ancestral home was the patented land known as "Lancashire." This home was acquired when Peter's son Thomas Haddaway married Elizabeth Lurkey or Larkey (daughter of Thomas Lurkey) on July 10, 1716. The property still remains within the descendants of this couple, but the surname controlling the property now is Johnston. Lancashire is located east of Wittman, Talbot County, Maryland, at the end of Pot Pie Road. The property borders on the right bank of Harris Creek just south of where the Northeast and Northwest Branches meet. The oldest part of the house at Lancashire is believed to have been built circa 1783. This brick structure is a one-and-one-half story and was the home of at least three generations of William Haddaways. |
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Moving In The Kentucky Haddaway Clan began with the emigration of the family of John Newnam Haddaway and wife Henrietta Kemp Lloyd around 1881 to 1883. John's father, Charles William Haddaway, and mother, Arianna Amanda Newnam, were the main reasons for their oldest son's emigration because Charles William had accepted employment as a farm superintendent near Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. John Newnam's mother actually died in Kentucky, but his father returned to Maryland where he died at the home of his oldest daughter and son-in-law in Oxford. Charles William Haddaway was a trainer of trotting horses and was well known all over the country among the breeders and lovers of good horses. There were at least two immigrations of Haddaways to Talbot County, Maryland, from England. The first occurred in the 1600's and the second occurred in 1800. Talbot County is still Haddawayland because the largest concentration of Haddaways in the world is there. |
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| --- Charles Montgomery Haddaway, III | ||
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