Harry & Minnie Hawes

Harry & Minnie Hawes

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Researcher Joan West

Harry George Hawes born 1905 was the son of George & Anne Hawes.

Minnie Annie Ward was born in 1911

Harry and Minnie married in 1940

Harry and Minnie had 3 children as follows :-

Hazel V Hawes born 1941

Malcomb G Hawes born 1945

Brenda Hawes born 1947

Harry Hawes inherited Woodbyne Farm from his parents and with his wife Minnie proved to be a very good farmer.

1980 Death of Harry Hawes.

Ted Janes, editor of Hallmark, wrote "Mr Harry Hawes, Woodbyne Farm, Lacey Green, a farmer and staunch member of the Methodist Church.

I remember when I first had a car, hardly knowing the front from the back, it was Mr Hawes who kindly stopped to find out my trouble, and proved I had run out of petrol and kindly filling my tank from his own supply.

He always struck me as a very tidy man, who particularly liked to keep the hedges of his farm fields as neat and tidy as his own garden. I would think in his later years of illness those hedges worried him.

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After Harry's death, Minnie let the land to R M West & Son

After Minnie's death R M West and Son purchased the estate from her daughters.  The Wests only wanted to keep farming the land and intended to sell the house.  However, at that time Paul & Trisha Johnstone (John and Joan West`s daughter and son-in-law) were wanting to move out into the country so they took over the house with the intention of doing it up and modernising it.   This proving impossible they applied to pull it down and replace it with a house that looked exactly the same from the front. Permission granted they built their new house themselves with the help of family and friends and the farm buildings became Woodbyne Fitness Gym.