Daphne Bellman, Oxfordshire, England

Group contact date: 3/2002

E-Mail me through Michael McManus at: [email protected] 

CONTENTS

The Tree

The Researchers:

Daphne Bellman

Yvonne Fountain

Mary and Mike Horder

Colleen Kubis

Maureen O'Sughrue

Michael McManus

Carl and Marilyn Madden

Angela Niblett

Sylvia Reid

Anne Shilton

Karen Smith

Eleanor Smyrski

The Newsletters:

Gentle Shores No. 1

Gentle Shores No.2

Gentle Shores No. 3

My great grandmother was Emma Dove born probably in 1836. I found out quite a few basic facts about Emma, including a snap of her when she was an old lady. She seems to have been a pretty tough survivor as she had her first baby (illegitimate) at the 'House of Industry' (Workhouse) in Newport, and later married twice. This first daughter was Annie Marian Dove born in 1864 and when she married in 1886 she gave her father's name as Charles Dove. How true this was we shall never know, but it intrigued me so I looked up the name in the IOW CRO index and could find only one candidate, born Yarmouth in 1845. I strongly suspect that he was a bit of a lad......and I am more confused than ever wondering who he was! Could he have been the great grandfather of Michael McManus and changed his name to Charles William Hendey to avoid having to support his child Annie Marian? Of course, this is all conjecture.

Annie Marian's half sister, Eliza Jane Rann was my grandmother and she was born to Emma and George Rann in 1868. 

I am also descended from James Hendy, born 1758, who married Rachael Riddett in 1776, then their son John had amongst other children Anne, who married William Dove, from whom I am descended.

Hendy

Dove