Seneca Hadzor and Ruth Bankes

From the County Down Vestry Records.

The earliest record of the Hadzors in Downpatrick dates back to 1704, when Seneca Hadzor was a churchwarden at the Downpatrick Church of Ireland. He married Ruth Bankes at Lisburn Cathedral, County Antrim in 1702, and hence may not have originally been from the Downpatrick area. 

Whatever branch of the family they were from though, the Downpatrick Hadzors had at some point nailed their colours to the Protestant and new English cause. The recorded children are almost all daughters, who married on into other families, and by the nineteenth century, the Hadzor name and their Anglo-Norman origins had faded into the background. 

From the perspective of this family history however, it is Seneca Hadzor and Ruth Bankes who mark the start of the direct line down through to Hetty Jane Owen, the wife of Charles Albert Eldridge.