David Hazlewood

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OBITUARY. - The Reverend David Hazlewood, Wesleyan Minister, died at Maitland, on the 30th October, aged 36, after a lingering illness of a pulmonary character. The deceased was born at Fakenham, in Norfolk, England January 8th, 1820. His father was a gentleman's bailiff. At a very early age the deceased was employed as a shepherd. His mother kept a village school, which afforded young David almost the only means of instruction he ever had.
At the age of fourteen he joined the Methodist Society, and remained a constant member of it until the end of his life. The Methodists are peculiarly distinguished amongst religious bodies by the care they manifest in placing all their available talent in a situation where it may operate to advantage. They accordingly soon perceived that David Hazlewood had talents of a peculiar order, and which qualified him to perform certain duties necessary to the success of missionary enterprise.
About fourteen years ago he arrived in this colony, and became a local preacher among the Methodists. He had previously acquired a knowledge of Latin, Greek, and French, which of course paved the way for the acquirement of other languages. He was finally called to the ministry and sent as a missionary to the Feejee Islands. His province in the missionary field was that of a translator. He studied the Hebrew in Feejee in order that he might comply with the requirements of the Bible Society, and then translated the whole of the Old Testament into Feejeean, and also revised the translation of the New ; he also compiled a Grammar and Dictionary of the Feejeean language. He was engaged for many months past whilst residing in this town, in revising his translation of the Old Testament and had death terminated his valuable life. We cannot allow a great man like this?albeit his virtues were of the quiet order?to pass away from us without passing notice imbued with sorrowful regret. He has accomplished a great work, and future generations of men in the islands of the Pacific will regard him with a veneration.
We understand that the deceased in addition to the languages already mentioned was acquainted with the Tongese and the Maori and that from the shortness of his life and the unremunerative character of the work to which he was devoted, has left but a scanty provision for his family. Should this be the the case it is the duty of the Christian public to see that of the descendants of Mr Hazlewood do not experience want.--Hunter River Journal. NEW SOUTH WALES. (1855, November 30). Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser

Reverend Hazlewood was the first person to convert the Old Testament from the Hebrew into the Fijian Language. He served as a missionary in Fiji and is very famous within the Wesleyan Church. Many students in the UK study his work. Fiji did not treat his family well, three of the four children he had with second wife Sarah died as infants. It seems a shame that the Reverend died so young, at only 35, as he achieved so much in such a short time. His original translation which was later revised before publishing is now being reprinted by Andrew Thornley, a Fijian Methodism historian from Sydney.

There is a diary in existence, see details below, the transcript is held by the State Library of NSW.
Diary of Reverend David Hazlewood (transcription of 1841-1850 journal made in 1994 lby Daphne Penalver):
Reverend David Hazlewood [1820-1855] arrived in Sydney from England in 1842. In 1844 he left as a missionary to Fiji, arriving there after a four month stay in Tonga. He stayed in Fiji until 1853 when he returned to New South Wales in failing health and died at Maitland in 1855. A skilled linguist, his publications include "A compendious grammar of the Feejeean language; with examples of native idioms" [1850] and" A Feejeean and English dictionary; with examples of common and peculiar modes of expression, and uses of words."..[1850].
--Thanks to Sandra Stevens for assistance with this information

Some extracts regarding David taken from the book below chronicling missionary experiences in Australia and Fiji.

MISSIONARY TRIUMPHS AMONG THE SETTLERS IN AUSTRALIA AND THE SAVAGES OF THE SOUTH SEAS
A Twofold Centenary Volume
BY JOHN BLACKET
Author of 'The History of South Australia,' 'Not Left Without Witness; or, Divine Truth in the Light of Reason and Revelation,' 'A South Australian Romance,' 'Social Diseases and Suggested Remedies' (being a Criticism of some Socialistic Theories), &c., &c. Ton&on

CHARLES H. KELLY
25-35 CITY ROAD, AND 26 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C
First Edition, 1914
THE NOBLE BAND OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE WORKED AND TO THOSE WHO ARE NOW WORKING IN THE FOREIGN MISSION FIELD

THE FOUNDING OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN FIJI
We now turn our attention for a few minutes to an oasis in the dark and dreary spiritual desert this was the island of Ono, in the Fijian group. Work was begun in this island by a converted Tongan. A number of natives accepted the gospel. These were much persecuted by the heathen ; but their numbers increased, until they felt that they were able to defend themselves against the attacks of the heathen party. They took up arms against them, and the heathen fled before them to their stronghold in the mountains. The Christians followed them, and took the town. Scarcely any one fell on either side. Instead of killing the vanquished the native Christians ran up to them, fell on their necks, and wept over them. Such a thing had not been known in Fiji. Aforetime they would have been killed and eaten. This treatment made such an impression on the minds of the heathen that they decided to accept the gospel at once.
When Richard Lyth left Somosomo for Lakemba the gentle and scholarly David Hazelwood joined Thomas Williams in that dark and discouraging field. When Somosomo was abandoned David Hazelwood was sent to Ono. It was like a translation from midnight darkness to noonday. In a communication to the Methodist Missionary Committee in London Mr. Hazelwood said: 'The last time I wrote you was from Somosomo, a land of darkness and the shadow of death, where eminently Satan's seat is; a land of thick darkness, bordering on the regions of eternal night; where heathenism in the form of savage cannibalism, with all its horrors, lifts up an unblushing countenance. I am happy now to write to you from a place on which "the Light of the World" has poured His enlightening rays, and I trust for ever dispelled the gloom of heathenism! I could almost beg and entreat : never send me again to a heathen land.... What is not Christianity able to effect! I have seen its effects at home; I have seen them in the colony (New South Wales); but I have never seen its effects so general on a people as on the people of Ono.... As compared with Somosomo, we have removed from the verge of hell to the precincts of heaven.'*
The following are a few testimonies given by the converted Fijians at Ono in connexion with a lovefeast presided over by David Hazelwood: 'One great thing I know is my sins; another is the love of God. It is a new thing for me to love men.... I know this is the effect of the love of God.' Another (a woman) said: 'My child died, but I loved God the more; my body has been much afflicted, but I love Him the more. I know that death would only unite me to God. In this testimony we hear again the voice of Paul: 'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors.'Another convert said: 'I am a very bad man; there is no good thing in me; but I know the love of God. There are not two great things in my mind; there is only one the love of God for the sake of Christ'
David Hazelwood soon had to pass through deep waters. His youngest daughter died of dysentery, and the father had to read the burial service over his own child. A fortnight later his wife was confined, and three days after passed away. The Rev. Thomas Williams arrived just in time to save his afflicted brother from the sore trial of reading the burial service over the mortal remains of his own wife.
In 1885 Thomas Williams, one of the pioneer Methodist missionaries, revisited Fiji. What a marvellous transformation greeted his glad vision 1 Said he: 'I passed a night at my old and horror crowded station Somosomo, where, with the brethren Lyth, Hunt, Cross, and Hazelwood, and our noble wives, I endured sufferings of no ordinary kind. But they are passed, and on the ground where I once walked amongst the slain, amongst open ovens and devil temples, I have addressed a neatly attired and attentive audience. I witnessed strange scenes here from the year 1843 to the year 1849, and those which are daily passing before me are by contrast equally strange. Jehovah hath confounded the gods of the heathen, and gotten to Himself a glorious victory. Hallelujah!'

David married Jane McIntyre on 25 Feb 1844 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Jane was born in Aug 1812 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom; died on 23 Feb 1849 in Nadi, Ba Province, Fiji. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Sarah Webster on 9 Jun 1851 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Sarah was born on 10 Dec 1819 in Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom; died on 9 Sep 1903 in Epping, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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IN MEMORIAM MISS SARAH HAZLEWOOD.
The decease, on the 16th May last, of Miss Sarah Hazlewood, revives missionary history. For Miss Hazlewood was the eldest child of Rev. David Hazlewood, of Fiji fame. Her distinguished father was married on February 8, 1844, to Miss Jane McIntyre, by Rev. J. McKenny, in the old Princes Street Chapel. He was ordained the same day as the late Rev. John Watsford. These two missionaries went to Fiji together, and arrived in Viwa on the 10th August, 1844. Miss Sarah Hazlewood was born on December 22, 1844, at Somo-somo, Fiji.
The Rev. D. Hazlewood made a definite mark on Fiji missions, for it was he who compiled the excellent grammar and dictionary which has been used ever since by Government officials and missionaries alike. No subsequent attempt has ever superseded it. Mr. Hazlewood also was the first to translate the Old Testament (with the exception of Pss. 1-28) into the native tongue. This translation was probably used in the first printed bible, though the latter departed considerably from Mr. Hazlewood 's work. Miss Hazlewood inherited all her father 's missionary zeal. Her ardour displayed itself in wide sympathy for the work of God either abroad or at home. She was well-known as the matron of the C.M.M. Hojne for the Sisters.
On her retirement to Epping she continued to subscribe liberally from her slender resources to Foreign and Home Missions, besides numerous charities. Towards the end of her life she became very frail, but she had much peace of heart. Her decease came suddenly, as she could have wished, at the residence of her half-brother, Mr. D. Hazlewood, who is the last surviving member of the missionary's family. At the grave-side, the Rev. W. Deane (who married a granddaughter of the Rev. John Watsford) com-mitted the remains to the ground. The Revs. J. W. Collier and G. Cranston (Presbyterian) also took part. There were representatives of six missionary families present to pay their last respects to a worthy daughter of a singularly useful and devoted missionary. IN MEMORIAM (1925, June 27). The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954), p. 13.

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Died:
Measles

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IN MEMORIAM DAVID HAZLEWOOD.
An Appreciation by Rev. W. Deane, M.A.
On July 20, at Epping, there passed away one whose name recalls fragrant memories in Methodist mission history. The writer refers to David Hazelwood, son of the missionary of the same name, who worked in the early days of cannibal Fiji. The latter was distinguished as the compiler, of the standard dictionary of the Fijian language. Though he died at the early age of 36, he was enabled to accomplish a work that has stood the test of time, and is still the reservoir for all who wish to make themselves proficient in the sonorous Bauan tongue. The debt that we owe to this assiduous missionary the Methodist Church can never repay. The Church will always remember the earnest application which gave Mr. David Hazlewood a good working knowledge of Hebrew and Greek, and of the science of language, preparatory to his making the dictionary. His intimate knowledge of the Fijians also fitted him eminently for his epoch making work. The Fijian Government, in more recent years, invited the late Rev. W. A. Heighway to revise the dictionary, a herculean task which he began, but was not permitted to complete. It is unlikely now that Hazlewood 's work will ever be superseded.
Mr. David Hazlewood, of Epping, was justly proud of his father's reputation. Born in the year of his father's death, viz., February 11, 1855, he grew up in the Methodist Church, honouring his descent from Hazlewood, the missionary,' with a blame less character and reputation.
Giving himself to horticulture, he founded the well-known firm of Hazlewood Bros, at Epping, which extends its operations far beyond this State. The writer frequently visited him, and found him to be a man of remark able generosity, and yet one who would on no account have his name published. He gave symtematically to missions in the city, charitable institutions, and the trust funds of the church at Epping, and always with the stipulation that no word was to be said about it. To know him was to give complete respect to one who was above reproach.
Of late years his actual attendance was transferred to another church, but he never forgot the church of his distinguished father, and was always interested in 'its progress. In honouring him, therefore, the Methodist Church honours itself. His family has left its mark on the community in various ways.
Three of the sons were soldiers ? Rex (A.I.F.), Arnold (Original Anzac, three times wounded), and Len (killed at Fleurbaix, 1916). A son George is an orchardist at Bathurst, and a daughter Nell (Mrs. E. Ray) is the wife of a well-known orchardist in the same district. Two brothers (George and Harry) carry on the horticulture business at Epping. Dorothy is the wife of Professor W. L. Waterhouse, at Lindfield, and Mary is the wife of Mr. Stan Carr, at Chatswood South, both prominent workers in the Methodist Church. Louise is unmarried, while Curtis died in infancy. Mr. Hazlewood married Miss S. L. Hodgson at Sydney on the 25th February, 1879, and this excellent lady survives him. IN MEMORIAM (1932, August 6). The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954), p. 13.

David married Sarah Louise Hodgson on 25 Feb 1879 in Redfern, New South Wales, Australia. Sarah was born on 28 Aug 1857 in Sunny Corner, New South Wales, Australia; died on 20 Mar 1939 in New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Stanley Carr on 10 Jan 1902 in Epping, New South Wales, Australia. Stanley was born on 12 Mar 1872 in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom; died on 15 Aug 1958 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Hester Mary Tindall on 16 Jan 1911 in Wynnum, Queensland, Australia. Hester was born on 11 Oct 1885 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia; died on 30 Sep 1986 in Dundas, Western Australia, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harry married Hannah Ray on 3 Dec 1913 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia. Hannah was born on 15 Jan 1884 in Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia; died on 11 Feb 1973 in Epping, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Annie Belton on 13 Oct 1917 in Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia. Annie was born on 9 Oct 1891 in Longwood, Victoria, Australia; died on 1 Aug 1966 in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rex Hazlewood?s father, David, was a keen amateur photographer and fostered the same passion in his son. Rex spent two years in country New South Wales as student pastor and took numerous photographs of the areas around Yeoval, Manildra and Molong, where he was based.
He also began taking photographs of churches of his own and other denominations in the suburbs of Concord and Epping. His ministry ended in late 1911 when he began working as a professional photographer.
On his return to Sydney in 1911, he took many photographs of the areas around his family home in Epping ? including several series of the new developments in the north western suburbs, government works and the newly-built Central Markets (now Paddy?s Markets) in the city.
His photographs recall the farming days of Sydney?s outer suburbs, including fruit-growing in Epping and timber-hauling in Carlingford. Some time between 1911 and 1916, Rex Hazlewood began to identify himself as a professional photographer and he appears to have gained several contracts to record the progress of large government building projects. He was the first to record the construction of the Commonwealth Government?s first wireless station at Pennant Hills, then the State Brick Works and Timber-Yard, and later many other industrial sites in the Strathfield-Ryde district.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916 and left for England in 1917. During WWI Rex served in the first AIF. He served at the Western Front, and at the end of 1918 he was appointed an official war photographer until his return to Australia in 1919.
After the War, he recommenced his professional career, setting up a studio at Epping. His subsequent work included over 2,000 colour photos taken on an extended trip to Europe and Britain. When he died in March 1968, his photographic collection passed to his family, who donated over 1,000 of these, mainly glass-plate, negatives to the Mitchell Library.
In 1995 his son Laurance published a monograph on Hazelwood, inspired by the many researchers, especially local historians, using his photographs. As well as a biography and the reproduction of a selection of his early photographs, it includes an index to the photographs in the Mitchell Library.
--Pittwater Online News

David married Emma Roberta Kendall on 19 Jun 1920 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. Emma was born on 20 Jul 1895 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia; died on 12 Jun 1973 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katie married Edwin Ray in 1913 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. Edwin was born on 13 Jan 1882 in Central Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia; died on 14 Aug 1958 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hamilton married Muriel Annie Smith on 9 Oct 1920 in New South Wales, Australia. Muriel was born on 12 Mar 1891; died on 14 Aug 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Walter Lawry Waterhouse on 6 Sep 1924 in New South Wales, Australia. Walter was born on 31 Aug 1887 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia; died on 9 Dec 1969 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Leonard Hazlewood was hit by a shell while in the trenches. Badly wounded in the chest, he died while being taken to the dressing station by stretcher. The Hazlewoods were a prominent local family. Leonard's brother Rex was an official photographer during the war. (The surname is misspelt 'Hazelwood' on the memorial.)

Died:
World War I - Battle of Pozières

Killed in Action - Hit by a shell while in the trenches and badly wounded in the chest, he died while being taken to the dressing station by stretcher.

Louisa married George Busby Body on 10 Nov 1939 in New South Wales, Australia. George was born on 30 May 1893 in New South Wales, Australia; died on 9 Aug 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hazel married Albert Stanley Jones on 3 Jun 1937 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Albert was born on 14 Mar 1908 in Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia; died on 24 Jan 1946 in Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kelvin married Gwynneth Adeline Rishworth on 21 Feb 1941 in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. Gwynneth was born on 11 Feb 1912; died on 20 Apr 2007 in Rosanna, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rodney married Viola June Herbert on 12 Sep 1942 in Epping, New South Wales, Australia. Viola was born on 28 Jun 1917 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; died on 4 Aug 1984 in Denistone East, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Neroli married Hedley Arthur Miles on 28 Sep 1946 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Hedley was born on 4 Apr 1920 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia; died on 3 Jan 2006 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; was buried in Calivil-Pompapiel Cemetery, Calivil, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Thora Christina Jean Schutt on 22 Nov 1938. Thora was born in 1914 in Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia; died on 3 Apr 1987 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Rhoda Alice Fenn on 16 Sep 1971. Rhoda was born in 1909; died on 27 Jul 1973. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Loris married Lionel Alan Ruffles on 2 Sep 1944. Lionel was born on 8 Sep 1919 in Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia; died on 11 Mar 2005 in New South Wales, Australia; was buried in Palmdale Lawn Cemetery, Palmdale, Central Coast Council, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

? married Barry Booth on 2 Dec 1951 in Epping, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ? Moncrieff. ? was born in 1928 in New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Gordon Henry Edgecombe in 1945 in New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On 24 February 1942 Hudson AM563 took off from North Coates on an anti-shipping patrol. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. The aircraft was lost and one crew member became a Prisoner of War. In 1948, Pilot Officer Knight, the only survivor, recorded that the three missing crew members had lost their lives at sea.

Pilot Officer Knight reported that ?the aircraft hit the mast of a ship and burst into flames after crashing on an ice floe. A portion of the aircraft in which Knight was sitting broke away from the burning portion and he managed to make his escape on to the ice, from which he was rescued. The burning portion of the aircraft broke through the ice and sank quickly. Pilot Officer Knight stated that he heard nothing from the other crew after hitting the mast and although the boat that rescued him made a search for other survivors their efforts were unsuccessful. Later the crew of the ship stated that they only saw one figure on the ice floe before the aircraft sank, and coupled with the fact that the weather was bitterly cold, any person thrown out beyond the limit of the search would not have survived. Pilot Officer Knight is certain that he was the only survivor.?

Died:
World War II -
Killed in Action