Adrian, Do the dates of the birth of those Children clash within 9 months allowing for baptism dates being vague, since it is possible for the mother to have gone home to have some of the children. Paul 2627 On 19/04/2016 12:24, Adrian Hanwell via wrote: > Resent, as my original response was too long. > > Dear John and interested Goons members, > I started studying and researching > my family tree in my teenage years. It was 1965 when my Father died and I > took up his research shortly after that. > My problem is similar to yours. I have taken my own branch of the > family no further back, other than find my Great Great Grandfather - John > Hanwell's Christening record in the Bishops Transcripts of Holy Trinity > Church, Hull. Nothing is recorded in the actual church record! From the > Christening Record, I found that John's Father was also called John, which > seemed like a major step forward at the time. My Father had already > discovered from an apprenticeship certificate of James Hanwell (brother of > John - my Great Great Grandfather) that James' Mother was called Hannah. The > ASSUMPTION being that Hannah was the Mother of both. There the trail ends, > which was why I began my one-name-study of ALL branches of the HANWELL > family. It is clear that my Great Great Great Grandfather (John Hanwell > senior) was a stray from another county, or from the Denby Dale area of the > West Riding (where there were Hanwells at that time). There was a family > story that my Great Great Grandfather's parents were evicted from their home > when Blenheim Palace was built and its estate landscaped, so they emigrated > to East Yorkshire, but I cannot find any confirmation for that. > All of my known direct line HANWELL ancestors including John Hanwell > and his Brother James Hanwell were born in Hull and all (including me) were > christened at Holy Trinity Church in Hull, but there were no Hanwells > whatever (except one stray Sailor 150 years earlier) to be found in Hull, or > anywhere in the East Riding of Yorkshire. > I have an oil painting and the handwritten 1908 diary of John > Hanwell (born 1782, died 1854) and he mentioned Cousin ROOM who lived at > Ball Hall, Storwood in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Aunt RILEY and Uncle > BROCKLEBANK who he met in Hull. I have therefore searched for HANWELL, ROOM, > RILEY and BROCKLEBANK connections, all to no avail. As John was a Methodist > minister in the first year of his ministry in 1806, when he began his diary, > I do wonder if "Cousin", "Aunt" and "Uncle" might have been friendship > titles, rather like the title "Brother" is with Monks? > Like you, I now have a one-name study containing thousands of > records, but not one which gives me a likely parentage for my Great Great > Grandfather John Hanwell and not one with a ROOM, RILEY or BROCKLEBANK > connection. I have one Hannah Rusby marriage to a John Hanwell, but it has > children with dates which are interspaced with my John and my James and > which are all in Denby Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near > Penistone, where their marriage took place. There would be no likely reason > for children of one family to be alternately born at such a distance from > each other. > Best Wishes from Adrian. > ---------- ********** ---------- > Adrian Hanwell. > [email protected] > Tel: 01723 341498. > ---------- ********** ---------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: John P Laws [[email protected]] > Sent: 09 April 2016 01:28 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Isn't genealogy fun? > > Yes the very one (John Peel). My wife's Great-Grandfather came from the > Cumberland Fells I traced them back in Torpenhow and the surrounding > villages to 1682 and with the John Peel link worthy of a WDYTYA show I > traced her Great-Grandmothers line back to the same period in SW Scotland, > Kirkcudbright, Dalry & Newton Stewert. Whereas my LAWS line is no further > back, in spite of a 43,000 record ONS than I was when I started over 40 > years ago. > John P Laws > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Adrian Hanwell > Sent: 8 April, 2016 9:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Isn't genealogy fun? > > Dear John, > The song John Peel brings back a lot of pleasant childhood > memories. > Best Wishes from Adrian. > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:49:16 +0100 > From: "John P Laws" <[email protected]> > Subject: Isn't genealogy fun > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Been puzzling out my wife's family for years and have finally established > that her Great Grand Aunt married the Great Grandson of the celebrated > Cumberland huntsman John Peel, related by his daughters Leticia and Nancy > John P Laws > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message