1848 April 5: living with his new wife, Frances Ann in Tresithick, Feock, Cornwall. First child, Wilhelmina Fanny Haslam, born. Registered May 1 1848. She later lived at King’s Rd. Brownswood Park, North London where she is recorded as head of the household, also the Secretary of the British Women’s Temperance Association.
1848 July 20: Baldhu Church consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter (Bishop Phillpotts) and dedicated in honour of St Michael the Archangel.
1849 December: publishes The Cross and the Serpent.
1849 December 25: birth of first son, John Horsley Haslam, registered February 1 1850. Born at the Baldhu Parsonage, Kea, and later ordained into the Church of England.
1850 November 7: reads notes respecting Tintagel Castle at the Royal Institution, Truro.
1851 February 25: birth of son William Doidge, who becomes an eminent surgeon.
1855: leaves Baldhu for Plymouth.
1851 February 25: birth of son, William Doidge Haslam, registered March 20. Born at Baldhu Parsonage, Kea, he becomes an eminent surgeon.
1851 Census: living in the Vicarage with wife, four children and four servants.
1851 October 19: converted by his own sermon while preaching at Baldhu.
1852: birth of son, Thomas Aitken Haslam, who studied at the Church Missionary College, Islington. From 1878 to 1886 Thomas takes at least two posts in Canada. Returns to England to be curate in charge of St James, Bath.
1853: birth of son, Robert Taunton Haslam. [No more information at present.]
1853: preaching engagements Dorset, including Portland Prison
1853: early October, gives lectures on John Bunyan at the Town Hall, Fowey, Cornwall.
1854: speaks at Golant, near St Austell.
1855: birth of daughter, Margaret Haslam. She married John Grayhurst Hewatt on October 10 1883. Moved to Canada.
1855: leaves Baldhu with six children, wife and three servants.
1855: feels God’s calling to move on from Baldhu. Invited to take charge of a new parish in Plymouth, but Bishop Phillpotts after accepting his resignation of Baldhu, refused to allow WH to take up the Plymouth post.
1856: residing at St Veep, Cornwall
1856: Bishop Phillpotts allows him to become perpetual curate at Carnmenellis, probably after helping out on the retirement of the Vicar. (See church baptism register for details of this.)
1857: takes a new charge as a curate at St John’s church in the town of Hayle, Cornwall, being promised a new church by the rector. Works among the dockers and factory workers.
1857: birth of son, James William Barnabas Haslam who studied at the London College of Divinity. 1883: priest London Railway Chapel. 1887: Chaplain at Sukkur, Sindh Province, Pakistan). 1892: St Andrew, Lahore. 1897: Jhelum (Punjab province, north-eastern Pakistan).
