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  • Ros has added another line of the Hancorn Family to our website - the Hancorn Duppa Family. They are descendants of Richard Hancorn of Whitney, son of Richard and Martha Hancorn, who changed his surname to Duppa in 1765 as stipulated by his greatuncle Baldwin Duppa's will which left Richard his property at Hollingbourne, Kent on condition that he changed his surname. See this family under the Hancorn Duppa Family button.

  • One of the elder members of the family have written an account of their memories of their grandparents, parents and their own early life. It has been added to the Hancorn(e) Memories box. If anyone else would like add their memories, please email them to Ros Dunnico. To start it off we have added the Hancorn Memories of William Griffith Waring. These were written about 1890 in Pennsylvania, USA.

  • Using various documents found in the National Archives at Kew and the PCC will of Thomas Higgins of Bach 1665, Ros and Ian Meredith have been able to sort out the first Thomas Hancorne alias Hunt of Whitney who died c1644 and his children,Samuel who moved to Glasbury in Brecon (See Hancornes of Wales), Thomas who married Elinor Higgins and died in Clifford and Richard whose descendants are the Hancorns of Hereford.

  • After 12 years of searching, Ros has at last found our missing Samuel Hancorn. The Hereford Hancorns have been detached from the rest of the family because our ancestor Samuel Hancorn of Norton Canon, Herefordshire's baptism and parents could not be found. Now he has been discovered in the Parish Registers of Winterbourne Parish Church, Gloucestershire, baptised a son of Samuel Hancorn and Hannah Giles. Samuel and Hannah's marriage is also recorded in 1710 and the baptisms of their other children Catherine 1712 and Richard 1718. These children match up with those found in Madley and Dorstone, Herefordshire and this leads us to match Samuel to the son of Richard Hancorn and Catherine Brafield born in Whitney in 1688. Hannah died in 1719 leaving a very young family and it can only be supposed that Samuel took his children back to Herefordshire to be near his family. No burial for Samuel was found in Winterbourne. At last we can now trace our line back to Richard Hancorn of Whitney who died in 1704.

  • Our very own Phyllis Stevens, whose great grandmother was Mary Catherine Hancon has written a
    delightful article on her memories of The Town of West Malling.

  • Part 2 of Phyllis Stevens' memories of West Malling.

  • More Hancon Scrapbook Photos

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