Meet the family
Discover biographies, family connections and the records behind each life.
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Hawes Family Archive
Every family has stories worth keeping. This is a place to discover ours: the people, places and moments that connect the Hawes family and its wider branches across the generations.
Explore biographies, photographs, letters and historical records, or follow the interactive tree to see how everyone fits together. Whether you are a relative, a researcher or simply curious, you are welcome here.
Discover the archivePeople & generations Photographs & memories Music & correspondence A London neighbourhood Homes & places From the family collection
Stories, faces & places
Choose a starting point, and see where the family story takes you.
Faces from the past
Explore portraits, wedding photographs and everyday moments preserved by the family.
Browse the photographs →Maria & Mendelssohn
Read the family-held letters and discover further correspondence published in 1886.
Explore the letters →Life on the Strand
Follow the family through the homes, theatres and businesses of a remarkable musical neighbourhood.
Read the Strand feature →Where their lives unfolded
Discover the streets and places that shaped the family, with maps, pictures and historical records.
Explore homes & places →Eric & Kathleen’s wedding
Look more closely at a treasured group photograph and the relatives gathered together.
Explore the wedding photograph →The interactive family tree
People, relationships & generations
Travel across generations from left to right. Each connecting line represents a parent–child relationship recorded in the family records. Select any person to explore their place in the wider family.
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Family member
Choose someone on the tree
Select a relative to explore family relationships, events and historical records.
Family connections
Select a relative to see their parents, spouse and children.
Explore a person’s biography for sources, family records and research notes. Details of living relatives remain private.
Help the archive grow
Share a piece of the family story
Do you have a photograph, a memory, a letter or a missing family connection? Contributions from every branch of the family are welcome, whether you have one small detail or years of research to share.
- Photographs and documents: email scans or clear photographs of portraits, letters, certificates and other family records.
- Stories and corrections: share memories, identify a face, or suggest an addition to a biography.
- Links and sources: include web addresses, archive references and where you found the information.
- Family trees: attach a GEDCOM file (.ged) exported from your family-history software, with source references where available.
Please include names, approximate dates, places and how you are connected. For photographs, tell us who is pictured and who should be credited. Share only material you have permission to contribute, and remove private details of living people from tree exports.
Contributions are reviewed before being added to the archive. You can tell us how you would like to be credited or ask us to keep your name private.
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Subject: Hawes family tree
A shared family project
A growing archive, for all of us
This collection brings together family photographs and memories with letters, census returns, parish registers and other historical records. It follows the Hawes family and the branches connected through marriage, giving each person a place in the wider story.
There is still more to discover. Sources and open questions are explained in the individual biographies and document pages, so you can explore both what we know and what remains to be found.
We protect the privacy of living relatives and distinguish documented evidence from family recollections.