Hello Listers Please see the reply that I sent direct to Nigel earlier this evening. Can anyone else shed further light on Hannah Lovelock's (Ann Lovelake's) ancestry? Regards Mike Bousher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bousher" <[email protected]> To: "Nigel Gerdes " <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Lovelocks in Lambourn(e), Berkshire, UK > Hello Nigel > > Happy New Year. > > Like your great nephew, I have Hannah Lovelock and Henry Pottinger among > my > ancestors. I agree with you that Hannah's line does not, hitherto, seem to > have been clearly documented on the Lovelock website. Her marriage to > Henry > Pottinger in 1764 is mentioned under St Michael and All Angels, Lambourn, > but her birth seems to be somewhat less well documented. > > I discovered that I had Lovelock ancestry back in 2002, and since then my > wife and I have been trying to find more information about Hannah and her > ancestors. We are pretty sure that the Hannah Lovelock who married Henry > Pottinger was in fact the Ann Lovelake (born 26 August 1744) who is > mentioned in the Lovelock website under Sparsholt. (Her parents are > recorded > as being Charles Lovelake (also referred to as Loveluck) and Sarah). This > theory is backed up by the fact that we found details at the Berkshire > Record Office of a death entry for a Hannah Pottinger in Lambourn on 26th > November 1831aged 87. Like Ann Lovelake, she would have been born in 1744, > so it is quite likely that they were one and the same person. > Unfortunately > we have not so far been able to find any other evidence that would > conclusively prove this theory. > > I would love to progress my Lovelock research further, but until I can > find > additional evidence proving (or disproving) our theory, I am stuck at this > point. I have been a subscriber to the Lovelock discussion list for some > time, but as yet have not found anything that helps to clarify the > situation. Can anyone else shed any light on Hannah's ancestry? > > Regards > > Mike Bousher > > Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Gerdes " <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:18 AM > Subject: Lovelocks in Lambourn(e), Berkshire, UK > > >> Hi all, >> >> This is my first post. Working on the forebearers for my great >> nephew, born in 2003, I have found he has links back into, not one >> but, two LOVELOCK lines. The first ('Berkshire Line') runs back via >> the grand-daughter of Charles Gibbs Lovelock to John Lovelock and >> Elizabeth Woolfe. That is well documented on the web site site apart >> from the most recent generation (Julia Annis Lovelock b 1880) that >> links in. The second is not. I am interested in tracing Hannah >> Locklock who married Henry Pottinger at Lambourne in 1764. Can >> anybody help? >> >> A happy new year to all, >> >> Regards >> >> Nigel Gerdes >> >> Bradford on Avon Wiltshire >> >> Researching SMITH, ALLLEN, KENT, GARRETT, GUNDRY and others in North >> H ampshire and Berkshire and now LOVELOCK! >> >> >> >> >> ==== LOVELOCK Mailing List ==== >> Lovelock family history Web pages: >> http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/ >> >> ============================== >> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >> New content added every business day. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >> >