Looking for my HANDS

[Yegvard]

Hi Folks,

Looking for any HANDS connections around Redditch, Tardebigge, Bromsgrove, Kings Norton, Yardley, Birmingham, Bury (Lancs), London & South Africa. I have several trees that aren't mine, simply because of the complexity of things.

Time span from 1500 to the present.

Cheers

Mike

[rosalind]

Hi Mike,
I have just discovered a Hannah Hands in my family tree she lived in Aston, Birmingham and married my GG Granfather Henry Martin Pope who was a Watercolour Artist from Birmingham, he has several paintings exhibited in the Birmingham Art Gallery. Her details are Hannah Hands b. 10 May 1840 in Birmingham Father William Hands b.circa 1819 Birm Mother Sarah b. 1818
and Sisters Eliza b.1842 Pheobe b.1847 Sarah b. 1849 All Birmingham. I wonder if this ties in with any of your Hands?
Best wishes
Ros

Hi Folks,

Looking for any HANDS connections around Redditch, Tardebigge, Bromsgrove, Kings Norton, Yardley, Birmingham, Bury (Lancs), London & South Africa. I have several trees that aren't mine, simply because of the complexity of things.

Time span from 1500 to the present.

Cheers

Mike

[Yegvard]

Hi Ros,

Sorry these aren't mine and I don't appear to have any info on them. There are some quite useful directories for Birmingham, which give trades and addresses.

Be very careful with researching you're HANDS. There are many families moving around complicated by migration from the rural areas. Then some people move out again. Just to make matters worse, some disappear off to the USA (like mine), Canada, South Africa (like mine) and probably Australia.

If I can be of help, just ask. There are a number of other HANDS researchers around Birmingham, who particularly use the Rootsweb HANDS email list.

Mike

[Tracy Masso]

Ros ... I do think that we could quite possibly be cousins.

Mike ... Are you Gay's husband?

In my research I found a Hanna Hands but couldn't place her with anyone. My researcher in England was a woman by the name of Vanessa ?. she is quite good and could give you the information about Hanna.

What I found was that Pope had married a Hanna Hands 9 July, 1864. She passed and 11 years (July, 1856) later he married Ann Bates (Pope), the widow of his brother Charles ... My G-G grandmother making Henry my G-G Uncle and step GG grandfather. My Great Grandmother is Ellen Pope, Henry's niece and step daughter.

There were 11 children in all, hers and his, of which 6 surived. In the 1881 census I found ... Ernest 13, Edith 12, Harry 10, E. Edward 13, James 10, Ellen 8. The last 3 listed were listed as S. Son and S. Daughter. Ellen is my Great Grandmother, her daughter, born Ellen in Birmingham, England and died Helen in the USA in 1970 was my Grandmother. Her son John is my Father, he was born in 1928 in Canada and is still living.

I do have most of the birth, marriage and death records as well as several photographs.

All The Best,

Tracy in the USA

[Yegvard]

Sorry Tracy,

Not Gay's husband.

Regards

Mike

[debbiet]

Ros ... I do think that we could quite possibly be cousins.

Mike ... Are you Gay's husband?

In my research I found a Hanna Hands but couldn't place her with anyone. My researcher in England was a woman by the name of Vanessa ?. she is quite good and could give you the information about Hanna.

What I found was that Pope had married a Hanna Hands 9 July, 1864. She passed and 11 years (July, 1856) later he married Ann Bates (Pope), the widow of his brother Charles ... My G-G grandmother making Henry my G-G Uncle and step GG grandfather. My Great Grandmother is Ellen Pope, Henry's niece and step daughter.

There were 11 children in all, hers and his, of which 6 surived. In the 1881 census I found ... Ernest 13, Edith 12, Harry 10, E. Edward 13, James 10, Ellen 8. The last 3 listed were listed as S. Son and S. Daughter. Ellen is my Great Grandmother, her daughter, born Ellen in Birmingham, England and died Helen in the USA in 1970 was my Grandmother. Her son John is my Father, he was born in 1928 in Canada and is still living.

I do have most of the birth, marriage and death records as well as several photographs.

All The Best,

Tracy in the USA

Hi - we have a connection here Henry Martin Pope the artist was my Great Great grandfather. I have been to Birmingham Art Gallery to see his paintings which are stored in their vaults. My Great Grandfather was Harry Pope - born 22.8.1870 who was Henry Martin's Son. He moved to Enfield, Middlesex as a young man and fought in the Boar war ( we have his diary). I have quite a lot of information about the Pope Family to exchange if you are interested.

Debbie, Kent England

[Tracy Masso]

Hi Mike ...

I wanted you to know that because of your post Ros, Debbie and I have been put in touch with each other and are in fact cousins. We have been able to track our family history all the way back to the early 1700's.

Thank you so much for starting this thread because of you we found each other.

Xoxo, Tracy

[Yegvard]

HI Guys, or is it Gals,

Excellant!! Another (large) brick in the wall. When you have got a moment could one of you be kind enough to let me have a full copy of your HANDS tree Start by sendingme a Private Message with your email address. From the ealiest you have it to the present day, (with consent of living relatives). Please, if possible, include your sources.

I use Family Tree Maker, FTW files. or can take GedCom files , or even GenoPro at a push.

Please don't stop now. Keep an eye out on too on the specialist HANDS lists and boards. If you need help on the again, please contact me directly, again via a private message.

Good luck & thanks for letting me know

Mike