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Travelling People / Re: Hodgkiss Family
« on: Monday 03 February 20 23:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi to all on this chat. I am in Melbourne Australia and a Hodgkiss through my Fathers line. We have worked a fair bit through the genealogy of Hodgkiss on our line, and one discovery made originally by a professional researcher for my Father in the 1950's is we all go back to a John Hodgkiss in the mid 1700's where the name begins apparently. The story is that he was born Hodgkins. Later as a young man he was assisting the parish vicar to update baptism records and discovered his own entry was incorrectly spelt - from HodgkiNs to HodgkiSs and he liked it so changed his name.
As far as we can tell its through his 4 sons through which the modern hodgkiss family (no E) descends.
My line leads us back to St Mary Parish in Worcester just south west of Birmingham. I am writing from the office so don't have the lines in front of me but if you would like more info please write to me.
We have a Mary Hodgkiss in the line so there may be a link to one of the posts above.
It appears many of the hodge' (and hotch) names derive from Bavaria and one discovery by the professional researcher showed a direct link to the modern hodgkiss family were servants to the Bavarian Court when it married into the British Royal family.
Our line ended entirely up in Hampshire - Portsmouth through my Grandfather (Royal Navy) first world war but I have since met other Hodgkiss's near Portsmouth through other John Hodgkiss lines as well as in Windsor (still a butchers shop there called Hodgkiss Butchers) but now owned and run by a Son in Law (1990's when I lived in England), Isle of Mann, Australia, NZ and USA.
In Australia in Queensland there is a small river named Hodgkiss Creek named after our earliest pioneer.
Regards
Greg
As far as we can tell its through his 4 sons through which the modern hodgkiss family (no E) descends.
My line leads us back to St Mary Parish in Worcester just south west of Birmingham. I am writing from the office so don't have the lines in front of me but if you would like more info please write to me.
We have a Mary Hodgkiss in the line so there may be a link to one of the posts above.
It appears many of the hodge' (and hotch) names derive from Bavaria and one discovery by the professional researcher showed a direct link to the modern hodgkiss family were servants to the Bavarian Court when it married into the British Royal family.
Our line ended entirely up in Hampshire - Portsmouth through my Grandfather (Royal Navy) first world war but I have since met other Hodgkiss's near Portsmouth through other John Hodgkiss lines as well as in Windsor (still a butchers shop there called Hodgkiss Butchers) but now owned and run by a Son in Law (1990's when I lived in England), Isle of Mann, Australia, NZ and USA.
In Australia in Queensland there is a small river named Hodgkiss Creek named after our earliest pioneer.
Regards
Greg