{"id":15,"date":"2014-05-25T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:58:18","slug":"john-wesley-hackworths-return-passport-1836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/2014\/05\/25\/john-wesley-hackworths-return-passport-1836\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wesley Hackworth’s Return Passport 1836"},"content":{"rendered":"

 John Wesley Hackworth’<\/span><\/b>s passport for returning to the UK from Russia c Dec 1836 after delivering the first locomotive built for Russia by his father Timothy Hackworth<\/b>. The scans of the passport are courtesy of  Jane Hackworth Young <\/b>(Co-creator of the Timothy Hackworth Museum<\/i>) and Alison Kay<\/b> of the National Railway Museum<\/i> in York. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n


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John Wesley
\nHackworth\u2019s Passport<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

On the 12th
\nDecember 1836, John was granted a Russian passport for the homeward journey, by
\nthe Tsar himself. The name on the passport read John William Hackworth,
\nbecause, as George Turner Smith remarks \u201chis name was considered unsuitable
\nfor a visitor to Mother Russia.\u201d<\/i> Timothy Hackworth was a Methodist and
\nnamed his son after, John Wesley
\nbut for the passport they changed Wesley to William so as not offend the
\nRussian Orthodox church. The passport was kept by John Wesley Hackworth\u2019s
\ndescendants until 2005 when Joan Hackworth Weir donated it to the Hackworth
\nArchives at NRM, York.<\/span><\/p>\n

The passport reads<\/b> –                                                                                                         <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy Edict of his Majesty, the Sovereign Emperor. Nikolai Pavlovitch,
\nAutocrat of all the Russias. To each and every person who it may concern, it is
\nhereby announced that the presenter of this document, a citizen of Great
\nBritain, John William Hackworth, mechanical engineer, is leaving this country
\nvia Lierandia and Kurlendia. In witness whereof and for freedom of passage he is
\ngiven this passport, which remains valid for three weeks, to pass the bearer
\nthrough the frontier. This passport is allocated by The St. Petersburg District
\nGovernor General with the affixed seal of His Imperial Majesty at St.
\nPetersburg 12th day of December in the year 1836. No 3179 1560, Distinctive
\ncharacteristics \u2013 Age 16, height medium, hair light brown, face oval, forehead
\naverage, eyebrows bushy, eyes hazel, mouth average, chin rounded<\/i>.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

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 John Wesley Hackworth’s passport for returning to the UK from Russia c Dec 1836 after delivering the first locomotive built for Russia by his father Timothy Hackworth. The scans of the passport are courtesy of  Jane Hackworth Young (Co-creator of the Timothy Hackworth Museum) and Alison Kay of the National Railway Museum in York. Thank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/johnwesleyhackworth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}