Patrick (Patricio) Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn

Son of Charles Bush Hearn and Rosa Antonia Cassimati, born on the 27th of June 1850⁴ in the island of Leucadia/Lefkas/Levkas/St Maura, Greece

Married Alethea (Mattie) Foley on the 14th of June 1874 in Cincinnati. The couple parted in 1875. Mattie remarried - John Kleintank in 1880

Married Setsuko Koizumi in January 1891

Children

Kazuo, born November 1893

Buried

Journalist and author, recognised as providing an deep insight into the Japanese character.

Landed in Dublin with his mother  on 1st August 1852

Died on the 26th of September 1904 (in Waseda, Tokyo?) Japan

Notes

1    Prime source of information "A Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn" by Paul Murray, published by Japan Library, Sandgate, Kent 1993 ISBN 1-873-410-23-9.

2    This page of information collated due to relationship with Henry Molyneux and the Keogh family. A bad investment by Henry Molyneux deprived Hearn of the university education and financial support he might otherwise have expected (see chapters 11 and 13 of the above book) and led to his  emigration to America, journalistic career and subsequent emigration to Japan.

3    My first reaction to "A Fantastic Journey" and his correspondence with his brother is that Lafcadio Hearn was an unstable personality - others have said paranoid.  I have yet to read his works on Japan. It is perhaps worth noting that his mother had mental problems. Consider the relationship between schizophrenia and 'genius' (Horobin).

4    www.chillit.org/FUJI-2.HTM

5    Lafcadio Hearn's family tree (cached)

Charles and Alicia Hearn
6/26/97 Does anyone know anything of the family tree of Charles and Alicia Hearn's three daughters, Lafcadio's step sisters?

1/21/98 Hearn had three half-sisters: Elizabeth Sarah Maude, Minnie Charlotte and Posey Gertrude. According to their baptismal certificates Elizabeth Sarah Maude was born March 31, 1858 in Secunderabad, India; Minnie Charlotte was born April 17, 1859, also in Secunderabad and Posey Gertrude was born April 6, 1860 in Trimulgberry, India.
The three half-sisters were all daughters of Charles Bush Hearn and his second wife, Alicia Goslin Crawford (known as The Pocket Venus because of her petite beauty). They were married on July 17, 1857. Alicia died in India in 1861 and Charles Bush Hearn died November 21, 1866 in the Gulf of Suez.
Only two of these sisters married: Minnie Charlotte married Buckley Atkinson and by him had a son, Carleton and two daughters, Marjory and Dorothy. We believe Marjory was born in 1892 and Dorothy was born in March of 1894. There is a photo of Carleton Atkinson in the Nina Kennard biography, "Lafcadio Hearn" on page 318 and in that same book there is a photo of Dorothy on page 233.
Dorothy married a Basil Hearn and had a daughter by the name of Ethne. The other step-sister, we are not sure which, married a Mr. Brown. Elizabeth Sarah Maude, nicknamed "Lillah", came to America to meet and visit with Daniel James Hearn, Lafcadio's brother.
If anyone has further information on these half-sisters of Lafcadio, please let me know through this medium.
2/5/98Woody Bates has it a bit wrong about relations to Lafcadio Hearn. The tree goes like this: Minnie Charlotte Hearn, half sister to LH married John Buckby Atkinson. they had 3 children including Dorothy, born 1894. She married Dr John Holmes, and they had 3 children, including Ethne, who married Basil Hearn (no relation) in 1947. they had 2 children, one of them Claudia, who married in 1974. That is me, so I should know! I believe this makes me a half great neice to LH. In fact it is my father, Basil, who is the most knowledgeable about LH in the family at present, but he is not on the internet. However, if anyone has any further family queries I will happily ask him and post replies on this board.