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Hi Captain, yes this makes us cousins, my family moved from Northampton to Birmingham in the early 1900's. My grandfather Daniel Hoare, son of William Hoare and Sarah Ann Cort born 1870 Mill Lane, All Saints, Northampton served on HMS Impregnable 31 Aug 1886. Daniel is listed as 5'1" in height, brown hair and brown eyes, pale complexion, tattoo on left wrist, occupation shoe trade. Daniel married Harriet Caroline Savage 1898 in Northampton, by 1912 they had moved to Birmingham, In 1920 Daniel and Harriett Hoare were listed as living at 57 Stratford Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Daniel had started a business as a shoe repairer. See photo. Daniel and Harriet Hoare had eleven children all living in one room above the shop. Any information you could give me on the family would be appreciated.

Hi there Captain Pegg, my name is Malcolm Hoare, all those names are very familiar to me, William Hoare and Sarah Ann Cort were my great grandparents, William's parents were William Hoare snr. and Sarah Anne Knibbs. John George 'Jack' Grantham married my 2nd cousin Sarah Elizabeth Hoare, daughter of Charles Hoare and Sarah Ann Neal. I guess that makes us distantly related.

Hi thanks for the reply, it looks from the records that when William's father, John Hoare and Elizabeth Lines married that she was already with child, they were married in Banbury 23 July 1794 and their son William was born the same year at Fenny Compton. William's father, John Hoare boatman was baptised 1771 in Neithrop, Banbury and his parents were Robert Hoare and Lucy Austin, Robert was born 1740 in Neithrop and his occupation was recorded as a glover breeches maker. The Hoare family moved from Tackley in Oxfordshire to Neithrop in 1705. As mentioned John Hoare had six children, William Hoare born 1794 Fenny Compton, John Hore jnr. baptised 1804 at Fenny Compton, Elizabeth Hoare bap. 1806 at Fenny Compton, Thomas Hoare bap. 1811 Neithrop, Joseph Hoare bap. 1814 Neithrop, Ann Hoare born abt. 1811 Neithrop. All the sons continued as boatmen. I have many records for the Hoare family which I will try to put into some sort of order, I am not very well organised. I do know that by the mid 1800's some of the Hoare family worked for Northampton Coal. They are also recorded in the publications , Cake and Cockhorse'.

William Hoare my 2nd great grandfather was born 1794 at Fenny Compton, in Warwickshire on board his father's canal boat. William's father John Hoare married Elizabeth Lines, another canal boat family, in 1794 at the Dissenters Meeting House in Banbury, his occupation was listed as a Boatman. In the 1861 census William Hoare is listed at Warwick Avon, Nuneaton age 67 registered as the 'Captain' of the Canal Boat, also listed is his 15 year old daughter Emma. The boat is listed as the 'Mary Ann' carrying coal from Northampton, with a burden tonnage of 30 tons. William was married to Sarah Ann Knibbs, another boating family. William's father John Hoare was born 1771 Neithrop Liberty, Neithrop, Banbury, he was married to Elizabeth Lines from another boating family. John and Elizabeth had 6 children, William who married Sarah Ann Knibbs, John who married Sarah Lines, Elizabeth married to William Burchell, Ann married to Joseph Burchell, Thomas married Jane Billingham and Joseph married Sarah Billingham, all the sons carried on the tradition of boatmen and the two daughters also married boatmen families. The Hoare family carried on the tradition of working on the canals until at least the early part of the 1900's.

Charles Hoare was my cousin, my Hoare family can be traced back to John Hoare of Neithrop Liberty, Banbury who was married in 1794. John Hoare, boatman, bachelor, and Elizabeth Line, both of the parish of Banbury, St Mary, married 23 Jul 1794 in the Dissenters Meeting House, by licence. In the presence of W Strong and George Baker. (Quakers)