The Children of Lieutenant John Hadzor

The four children of Lieutenant John Hadzor and Susanna O’Eana were:

i. Betsy Hadzor
ii. Mary Hadzor
iii. Rose Hadzor. Rose died in 1816 and is recorded in Blackwood as having married a Thomas Potter. He was born in 1743, died in 1785, and was buried in Killinchy (Blackwood).
iv. John Hadzor 

Downpatrick Church of Ireland Parish Church (St Margaret’s). Frequented by the Hadzor and West families.  

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It should be pointed out in passing that the names and spellings of names vary throughout the records. In particular, Susanna seems to be used as an alternate version of Juana. In this story, we have kept to ‘Susanna’ throughout, and regardless. 

With that in mind, the only one of the children for whom further information is available is John Hadzor junior, who followed his father into the medical profession, studying at Edinburgh University, an opportunity that his father had no doubt spotted whilst serving on the garrison at Edinburgh Castle. John Junior's thesis is still in the archive of the University and was grandly entitled Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de ventriculi inflammatione.  

He graduated as M.D. in 1753, and died in Downpatrick in 1763. He was buried at Downpatrick Parish Church on the 11th April.

No more is known of the line of Lieutenant John Hadzor, beyond what can be gleaned from his final will and testament.