Author: Hayter, William
Biography:
HAYTER, William (b 1797: ancestry.com)
Hayter is a rather elusive figure but the poem “Occasioned by the Death of My Sister” in his modest collection of 1820 makes it possible to identify his family. John and Susannah (Eldridge) Hayter were married in the established church in 1792 but both William, the eldest of six, born on 16 Jan. and baptised on 19 Mar. 1797, and his sister Mary, born on 2 Nov. 1799 and baptised on 16 Feb. 1800, were baptised at the Lady Huntingdon Chapel of Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, London. However, when Mary died in 1814 she was buried in Westminster Abbey. William may have been the man of this name who married Catherine Tanner (1790-1845) on 11 Jan. 1815 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, although in that case he would have been still a minor. That couple had two sons, the first baptised at St. James, Clerkenwell, in 1818 and the second born in Lambeth in 1830—with the father’s occupation given as “butcher” in both cases. He died before 1 Apr. 1845, the date on the death certificate of “Catherine Hayter . . . Widow of William Hayter, Butcher” at Walworth. (ancestry.com 2 Apr. 2022; findmypast.com 2 Apr. 2022; GRO death cert. [Catherine Hayter]; contributions by AA)