This question is forwarded from Phillip Hares of Dorset, England researching his Hare/Hares family in Somerset, England. I was able to tell him that the Hare place names go back to the Tory, Jacob Hare, an early settler to the area (and an ancestor of my husband) and gave him a reference on that. Since we are not from the area, I couldn't answer his other questions, which are of interest to me also since we don't know Jacob Hare's place of birth. Lanny Sangster in Kansas Phillip Hares' e-mail: I have recently heard that, in Huntingdon, there are places called Hares Valley and Hares Valley Road and that there is also a Callowhill Street. My Hare [later Hares] family came from Shipham and Rowberrow in Somerset, two parishes in the Mendip Hills where mining has been carried out since Roman times and only ended with collapse of calamine mining in about 1860. There were many Hares families in these two parishes and others in the Mendip Hills. One of the physical features of the area is a 700 ft high area known as Callow Hill and Callow Rocks which lie on the edges of several of these parishes. Can this be simply coincidence? I know that there were Hares families in Huntingdon in the 18c if not before. Have you carried out ant research in this area and have you any ideas on a possible Shipham connection? Incidentally, the earliest Hare that I have in my line dates to 1730: by 1760 the name had become Hares.

On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 03:25 PM, lannywayne wrote: > This question is forwarded from Phillip Hares of Dorset, England > researching > his Hare/Hares family in Somerset, England. I was able to tell him > that the > Hare place names go back to the Tory, Jacob Hare, an early settler to > the > area (and an ancestor of my husband) and gave him a reference on that. > Since > we are not from the area, I couldn't answer his other questions, which > are > of interest to me also since we don't know Jacob Hare's place of birth. This is from a bio regarding David Hare, born 1814 in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania which suggests German descent. From the Biographical Encylopedia of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry counties. From the bio of his daughter Nancy’s husband, James McCartney Mrs. McCartney’s father, David Hare, was born 4 March 1814, his wife Margaret Kemp, who like her husband was of German descent, was born 28 November 1815. Both were natives of Huntingdon county. They were married by Reverend T.E. Thomas, 8 September 1836. They resided at Mount Gretna until 1854. Mr. Hare was a miller, but from the year 1846 until his death was engaged in farming. From 1854 until 1861, the family resided in Henderson township, and from that date until Mr. Hare’s death, 20 October 1882, they were residents of Porter township. Mr. Hare served two terms, (1873-79) on the school board of that township, also one term as county commissioner. Mrs. Hare died 25 April 1887. their children are: Nancy E. born 7 June 1837; Mary K. born 14 October 1839; William H. born 9 October 1842; Lydia A. born 6 April 1845; John K. born 22 February 1848, deceased; David H. born 22 November 1849; Joseph K. born 12 December 1852 and Calvin A. born 19 February 1854.