The Haskins Line – Lower

1. Cecil Frederick HASKINS, 17 Aug 1894 - 21 Jan 1959 (the day after Zena's birth)
   SEE THE UPPER HASKINS LINE BACK TO 1706
   SEE THE MIDDLE HASKINS LINE 1840-1940
   While serving in the Marines during WWI, Cecil was stationed at Rosyth, Scotland (across the Forth Bridge from Edinburgh).
   Recommended for a VC after an action at Zeebrugge, but the Sergeant got it instead.
   m1. 27 Apr 1917 Isabella Stenhouse DAWSON 1890 - 23 Oct 1934, in Charlestown, just west of Rosyth on the Firth, children 1-5, and lived in Scotland 1917-34 (age 23-40).
   Came back to Portsmouth on the death of his wife in 1934, bringing the children with him.
   He then signed the second child into the Marines, and sent the youngest three to an orphanage in Scotland. When the third and fourth turned 14 signed them up to the Marine Musicians not just for the basic 4 years to 18 but for another 10 years as well.
   Here's a poignant photo of the 5 children, in Portsmouth in November 1934, just after their mother's death.
   In 1934, bought 54 Welsh Rd, Gosport.
   At least 1938-46, he worked in the government munitions factory in Gosport.
   At Christmas 1939, he was on the SS San Aberto, a tanker going to South America for tar. It was torpedoed and broke in two. He and a few others stayed on half of it for 5 days. During rescue by an RN vessel, he had to jump into the water, his lungs filled with water, and he suffered from that thereafter. Margaret, then 21, heard Lord Haw-Haw announce that the ship had gone down with all hands.
   m2. 1942 Mrs (Hilda) Earnshaw of Scotland nee Treacher?
   Sold Welsh Rd and bought another house in Gosport with Hilda.
   At the end of WWII, briefly in Australia and responsible for ammunition provisioning to RN vessels; and Peter met up with him.
   On his death, the assets passed to Hilda and her children.
1. Margaret Anne HASKINS b. 20 Feb 1918, d. 21 Jun 2007
   At Cleveland Rd in 1935 when Ken was born, and nursed and godmothered him.
   m. c. 1944? William (Ted) CRACKNELL b. ?, Exeter
   Margaret spent a lot of time 1934-58 trying to keep the (effectively orphaned) siblings together.
   (Ted was in the RAF, as a rear-gunner on Blenheims, later Wellingtons. In the BEF and escaped through Calais; later flew out of Elgin in Scotland. Survived 6 forced landings and an explosion immediately after take-off. Sole survivor when he parachuted into the North Sea. Re-posted to RAF land forces, he found himself in a Commando group that did one of the famed 'heavy water' raids in Norway – and survived that too!).
   1946-58, they lived in a council-house in Exeter, with Ted working for the Council as a painter and decorator.
   In 1958, they migrated to Australia on the Orsova. They didn't qualify for an assisted passage because of Heather's thyroid condition, but they won 500 quid on the pools.
   1958-c.68 in Adelaide, c.1968-1982 in Dandenong (Melbourne), then back to Exeter 1982-88 with Heather (briefly) and the grandchildren, Brisbane 1989-.
   Margaret worked in Melbourne for John Martin's Dept Store, was trained in garment fitting, and lectured doctors on bra-fittings for women who had had mastectomies (and the importance of it), incl. mention in a book on the topic.
   Ted worked as a painter and decorator for the Council in Adelaide.
   January 2007 photo LtoR standing: Roger, David, Ted; sitting Margaret, Peter and Leonie's two (taken by Leonie), Gold Coast, Queensland. (Peter and I had a day-trip up from Canberra)
   Margaret died 5 months after that visit (and Peter 8 months after that)
   1. Heather CRACKNELL 1945/46 - 9 Nov 1982 (Hodgkin's Disease)
      m. 1967 - c. 1981? Ross KELLY b. 1944-2005 (lymphatic cancer).
      Lived in Adelaide and Melbourne, then Exeter Jun-Nov 1982.
      1. Andrew KELLY b. 1968, Adelaide?
         m. ?
         Lived in Adelaide?, Melbourne, Exeter and Brisbane, gearbox repairer
         1. xx
         2. xx
      2. David KELLY b. 1970, Adelaide? Melbourne?
         m. Leonie (Lee) ?
         Lived in Adelaide?, Melbourne, Exeter, Brisbane, Ballarat
         Production Manager for Laminex
         January 2007 photo David standing second from left and his and Leonie's two children (taken by Leonie), Gold Coast, Queensland
         1. Ben b. 2003?
         2. Lauren b. 2005?
      3. James KELLY b. 1976, Melbourne?
         m. ?
         No children?
         Lived in Adelaide?, Melbourne, Exeter, Brisbane
2. Frederick HASKINS 1920 - Oct/Nov 1991
   Had rheumatic fever as a child
   When his mother died in 1934, when he was 14, his father signed him up in the Marines. Photo in 1940 (at 20, left, with his brothers Adam, and Peter sitting).
   In April 1941 he was lined up for HMS Hood, but was hospitalised. As a result, he was given a medical discharge instead of going down with her
   Then worked in the government munitions factory in Gosport
   Was later in Southampton
   Had his heart-valves replaced c. 1950 by some from a pig. (They did 40 years' sterling service, and the doctor presiding over his death asked to send Fred's heart back to the doctor who did the operation. The family agreed)
   m. ? Eileen ? b. ?
   no children
   Freda said they were into spiritualism in the 1980s, Peter said he was a medium
3. Adam Dawson HASKINS 19 Feb 1922 - Nov 1988
   Marine Musician
   Photo in 1940 (at 18, right, with his brothers Frederick, and Peter sitting).
   m1. 1942-1963 Joyce WILSON 1921-?, children 1-2
   m2. late Maisie ? - 17 Jan 1990
   Later ran a grocery and paper shop in Copnor Portsmouth
   Lived with his elder brother Fred for a time after his divorce
   Freda said Adam and Maisie were into faith healing in the 1980s
   1. Derek HASKINS b. 1945
      m. 1969 Eileen KEO(U?)GH b. 1946
      Kidderminster, 20 miles SW of Birmingham
      Headmaster, Bewdley in the Cotswolds, retired 2006
      1. Elaine HASKINS b. 20 Feb 1972 (Adam's 50th)
         m. Jamie FOX
         Live in Birmingham
         1. Madeleine Fox-Haskins b. Oct 2003
         2. Amelie Fox-Haskins, b. May 2006
      2. Steven HASKINS b. 1975
         m. Lynne Warren, Apr 2001
         Live in Bath
         1. Abigail Lily Haskins, b. Oct 2005
         2. ?
   2. Maurice HASKINS b. 1947
      m. 1968 Ann Elizabeth GRIST b. 1946
      No children
      Hairdresser, Little London, nr. Bishop's Stortford, Essex
4. (Peter) Cecil Joseph HASKINS b. 7 Jan 1925, d. Feb 2008
   1925-34 Rosyth, 1934 Portsmouth, 1935-39 Orphanage.
   Photo in 1936? (at 11, but in uniform?).
   1939-42 (14-17 yrs) Marine School of Music (Deal in Kent, then the Isle of Man).
   Photo in 1939 (at 14, and definitely in uniform).
   Photo in 1940 (at 15, with his brothers Frederick left and Adam right).
   1942-45 HMS Indomitable in the North Atlantic and the Med, then to the US. He was in Australia at the end of the War, was offered a position as oboeist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, but was unable to force the Marines to release him because of a contract signed by his father in 1939, which he was powerless to revoke [cf. RN slavery].
   In 1955 (age 30), he finally escaped from Marine Musician service.
   m. 1956 Jean Mary MARSHALL b. 1932
   1956-1985, music teacher and Youth Orchestra Impresario, Hertfordshire
   Retired initially to Grantham Lincolnshire, later to Swanley in Kent, and finally to Somerset, but not the one in the UK and instead east of Cape Town ZA
   January 2007 photo on a day visit from Canberra to Margaret & Ted in Queensland
   Peter died from a tumour in his back in Feb 2008
   1. Zena HASKINS 20 Jan 1959 - 2005
      m. 1983 Steven John HARROLD
      Dublin and Vienna (senior exec. with Coca-Cola)
      Zena suffered successive bouts of breast cancer and d. 2005
      1. Charlotte Emelline HARROLD b. 27 Nov 1988
      2. James Joseph HARROLD b. Jun 1992
   2. Christopher Graeme HASKINS b. 1962
      m. Jun 1987 Anne Georgina DEWSBURY (double-barrelled their name)
      Ashton, nr. Waltham Abbey Essex (senior exec with Pepsi-Cola)
      1. Amy Samantha DEWSBURY-HASKINS b. 16 Jun 1990
      2. Oliver DEWSBURY-HASKINS b. ? Jun 1992
5. Grace McNicol(l?) HASKINS b. 28 Dec 1927 or 1928
   m. 6 Apr 1947 John Alex (Jack) CLARK b. 1923
   Live in Exeter
   1. Gloria CLARK b. 1 Jan 1949
      m1. 1968-1980 Barry HOSEGROVE b.?, children 1-3
      m2. 1981-2007 Mike BENNETT b.?, child 4
      near Exeter
      1. Darrin HOSEGROVE b. 1969
         m. Kate Smales, Jul 1993
         chef
         1. Chloe Rose Hosegrove b. Jul 1995
      2. Natalie Dawn HOSEGROVE b. 1972, a twin
         Nursing in Cheltenham
         m. Simon EDWARDS, Aug 2000
      3. Diana HOSEGROVE b. 1972, a twin
         m. Andreas ADAMOU, Aug 2003
         In medical insurance, in Exeter
      4. Michaela Gemma BENNETT b. 13 Feb 1982
   2. Linda CLARK b. 18 Nov 1952
      m. 1970/76 Kenneth George BRAMBLE b. ?
      ex-Marine, worked for Jaguar
      Coventry?
      no children?

This a page within Roger Clarke's Family Web-Site

Peter Haskins provided a lot of this information to me in Canberra (on two hand-written scrolls) when he visited us in the early 1990s. It was captured into this form in 2006-07. Some of it came from my father Tony Clarke, Peter's first cousin. Some more came from Derek Haskins in 2007 (Anne's and my second cousin). And some from genealogical research by Anne Kratzmann in 2008

Contact: Roger Clarke

Created: 22 December 2006; Last Amended: 23 October 2008