The Chronicle de Havilland (1895)

Date: 1895 [unknown]
Surnames/tags: de_Havilland Haviland

Contents 1 About 1.1 Bibliographic Reference 2 Where to Find 2.1 Digital & Xerographed Copies 2.2 Original Print Copies 3 Author 4 Sources 4.1 Footnotes 4.2 Documentation

About

A Chronicle of the Ancient and Noble Norman Family of De Havilland (usually referred to as The Chronicle de Havilland in short) is the earliest surviving authoritative publication on the genealogy of the Guernsey de Havilland family, including the Haviland descendants in England (but excluding the American and Canadian descendants of William of Newport).

Written anonymously by John V.S. de Havilland based on an earlier work (now apparently lost) by Thomas Fiott de Havilland, the 1895 copy of the book was privately published (as most genealogies were and are) posthumously by Aaron Walter Haviland of Plainfield, NJ and Charles Haviland Mekeel of St. Louis, MO, who were Half 1st Cousins of one another, and 8th Cousins of the late author.

Bibliographic Reference

de Havilland, John von Sonntag. A Chronicle of the Ancient and Noble Norman Family of De Havilland, originally of Haverland, in the Cotentin Normandy, now of Guernsey. The Mekeel Press, 1895. (See Archive.org.)

WikiTree Bibliographic Syntax

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* {{Blue|Secondary: }}de Havilland, John von Sonntag. ''[[Space:The_Chronicle_de_Havilland|A Chronicle of the Ancient and Noble Norman Family of De Havilland]], originally of Haverland, in the Cotentin Normandy, now of Guernsey.'' The Mekeel Press, 1895. (See [https://archive.org/details/chronicleofancie00havi Archive.org].)

The "{{Blue|Secondary: }}" is optional, but it can help you organize your documentation between Primary (produced at the time of the event) and Secondary (produced after the time of the event and therefore more prone for error) using color, like this:

• Primary:A Census Record
• Secondary:A Genealogy Book

WikiTree Footnotes Citation Syntax

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<ref name="deHavilland.Chronicle.#">de Havilland, ''Chronicle'', p. #</ref>

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Where to Find

Digital & Xerographed Copies

• Archive.org has a great searchable digital version, which can be searched online and downloaded as PDF or text.
• Abe Books has bound xerographed reprints that can be purchased.

Original Print Copies

Original copies of the Chronicle de Havilland are extremely rare. Surviving copies are in very poor condition, and not many of them were printed. A few major libraries have copies. The New York Public Library only has it on microfilm, and the Boston Library has one reproduced from the original plates and rebound. Possibly one exists at the Priaulx Library on Guernsey. One original copy is owned by Christopher Sirmons Haviland, which was formerly owned by Charles Cobleigh Haviland (b. 1859), who inherited it from his father Dr. Alfred Haviland (b. 1824) who mentioned this volume in a letter to Daniel G. Haviland ^[1]. Josephine C. Frost, the author of The Haviland Genealogy, had five copies of the original, which she was selling for $15 each in 1914 along with her Haviland Genealogy book. The fate of those volumes is not known. ^[2]

Author

The Chronicle, as it is known today, was originally written by Colonel Thomas Fiott de Havilland, the builder of Havilland Hall on Guernsey. It probably focused on the Guernsey de Havilland branches from which he descended. It is not clear whether his book was ever published or what ever became of it, but it fell into the hands of John Haviland, son of John Haviland the famed Philadelphia-based architect. The son, John, was a genealogy enthusiast and had developed negative opinions about what he called was a "corruption" of the spelling of the surname of "de Havilland" into "Haviland," and so he had his name legally changed back to "de Havilland." He expanded Thomas's book. The copy that has survived was published posthumously in 1895.

John V.S. de Havilland was a Professed Knight in the Order of Malta and a York Herald in the College of Arms (one of the very few American-born individuals to acquire this role).

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ Frost, Haviland, p. 494.
2. ↑ Frost, Haviland, Insert.

Documentation

• Secondary:Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy : Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688 : with special records of the allied families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Co., 1914.
• Secondary:de Havilland, John von Sonntag. A Chronicle of the Ancient and Noble Norman Family of De Havilland, originally of Haverland, in the Cotentin Normandy, now of Guernsey. The Mekeel Press, 1895. (See Archive.org.)