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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Any HANDS in Worcestershire
« on: Monday 23 June 14 13:42 BST (UK) »
Hi Mike
I don't know if you can help me at all?
My Great Grandfather was James Frederick Hands – born in April 1874 in Coventry but through looking at census documents, it appears when his father died, his mother took the family back to London where he later enlisted in the Royal Marines.
His father was also called James, born I think around 1850 in Birmingham and who was married to Martha Taylor.
James father was called John and was I think married to Ann (Bailey?). He was born in 1826 and was a Gun Stoker as was his father, James Hands (b 1790) who was married to a Sarah Povey.
If my research is correct, going back, there was before him, William Hands (married to Anne Crumpton), William Hands (married to Mary Eldridge) and Joseph Hands (married to Jane?) - taking the tree back to the early 1700's
Are you able to help trace this line back any further?
Its interesting that I have met via Rotary, two people called Hands (father and son, Chris and Roy) who come from Coventry but we can find no link and my old headmaster was called (Clifford – not his christened name, he changed it for some reason after WW2) Hands, again from Coventry but we can find no link between our families or of Roy and Chris.
Many thanks for any help you can provide
Kind regards
Darren Hands
Plymouth
I don't know if you can help me at all?
My Great Grandfather was James Frederick Hands – born in April 1874 in Coventry but through looking at census documents, it appears when his father died, his mother took the family back to London where he later enlisted in the Royal Marines.
His father was also called James, born I think around 1850 in Birmingham and who was married to Martha Taylor.
James father was called John and was I think married to Ann (Bailey?). He was born in 1826 and was a Gun Stoker as was his father, James Hands (b 1790) who was married to a Sarah Povey.
If my research is correct, going back, there was before him, William Hands (married to Anne Crumpton), William Hands (married to Mary Eldridge) and Joseph Hands (married to Jane?) - taking the tree back to the early 1700's
Are you able to help trace this line back any further?
Its interesting that I have met via Rotary, two people called Hands (father and son, Chris and Roy) who come from Coventry but we can find no link and my old headmaster was called (Clifford – not his christened name, he changed it for some reason after WW2) Hands, again from Coventry but we can find no link between our families or of Roy and Chris.
Many thanks for any help you can provide
Kind regards
Darren Hands
Plymouth