The Halstead Olympians

 So far we have been able to track down two Halstead's who have taken part in the Olympic Games over the years

In recent time Laurence Halsted has fenced for the British fencing team and competed in both London (2012) and Rio (2016) 

In older time the only one that I can find is Nellie Halstead 

She was born in 1910, the daughter of CHarles HALSTED and Florence Ann BURSTON and lived to the age of 81. She was at one time known as "Britain's greatest woman athlete"

 She competed in the 1932 games in Los Angeles and was part of the bronze medal winning team in the 4x100 metres relay.

Rather than copy what other have written about her it is easier to provide the links to their websites

Wikipedia

Playing Pasts

 The Olympedia

If you any more then please let me know and I will add them to this page

Regards

John Hanson FSG, Researcher, the Halsted Trust

New version of website

It has been nearly 4 years in the making but the new website is not far away 

We are in the last stages of testing (hopefully all will go well) 

The database has grown considerably over that time and now contains nearly 41,000 people 

The biggest increases have been in the number of entries for those overseas 

Some time has been spent in sorting out the entries for Australia and New Zealand - not easy when neither has census records 

 But the biggerst increase has been in the entries for North America - both Canada and the USA 

So keep watching this space

You never know what is next in your inbox

When running a large one-name study you never know what may appear in your inbox next. 

It can sometimes go for weeks between enquiries and of course the occasional "Just wanted to say thanks for all the work you must have put in" 

But last Friday I got an email where the title simply said "Enquiry from Uruguay" 

This instantly got me wondering as there are not many that went to Uruguay - Argentina (next door of course) is a different matter. 

The enquiry was from a journalist and a member of the History Society of Club Atlético Peñarol. He was researching the early members and founders of the club. He said "One of them was a man Halstead, in the records from 1891-1896 appears as R. Halstead, suposedly a cricket player. In newer records, from 1901 and beyond, another appears as J. H. Halstead." 

He had found the research website and thought that the R Halstead could be Richard Lucio Halstead (1864-1917) and the second John Henry Halstead (1859-1941) - quite likely as both had connection in South America, travelling there frequently. 

With passenger lists prior to 1890 bit surviving tracking people going to South America in the 1880's in not easy and no inbound to there either. Richard was certainly there before 1890 and John Henry went in 1899. Both had connections to the railways as had their father Joshua Halstead (whose death I still can't trace). 

I was able to provide him with the details of the brothers, their journeys and deaths, as well the details of the other family members who went to South America. He promised to keep me informed on how things progressed and also sent me this newspaper snippet from 1899