Hi, Just to say I have a Hannah Maria Thomas in my family tree but she almost always called herself Annie. Makes finding her difficult when she is a possible marriage witness. Which is an idea for checking possible relatives if you have marriages which took place after 1754, to see if any Hanwells were marriage witnesses or executors on wills of other people. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: [email protected] GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Hanwell via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:24 PM Subject: [G] Isn't genealogy fun? > 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