The Hancocks Part 1: A Cornish Inheritance
This story is part 1 of my family line that lived in Cornwall until Samuel Hancock and Elizabeth (nee Menear) migrated to Australia in 1876. We begin in the 1600s with Thomas and Grace Hancock in St Austell, Cornwall.
ANCESTORS OF CHRISTOPHER FARR JUNIOR& ELIZABETH GILBERT
This story is part 4 of my family line that lived in Lincolnshire until Christopher and Elizabeth (nee Gilbert) Farr migrated to Australia. Includes the stories of Elizabeth’s ancestors back to the late 1700s. I recommend you read part 1, part 2 and part 3 prior to reading this family story.
ANCESTORS OF CHRISTOPHER FARR & ELIZABETH GILBERT
This story is part 3 of my family line that lived in Lincolnshire until Christopher and Elizabeth Farr migrated to Australia. It includes the stories of the Johnson family back to the late 1700s. I recommend you read part 1 and part 2 prior to reading this family story.
ANCESTORS OF CHRISTOPHER FARR & ELIZABETH GILBERT
This story is part 2 of my family line that lived in Lincolnshire until Christopher and Elizabeth Farr migrated to Australia. It includes the histories of the Timberland families back to the late 1700s. I recommend you read part one prior to reading this family story.
Ancestors of Christopher Farr & Elizabeth Gilbert
The diagram above shows my direct Lincolnshire ancestors, whose lives were shaped by poverty, loss, and endurance. Their stories are rooted in the damp, fertile earth of Lincolnshire, where people lived close to the seasons and to the success or failure of the harvest.
The earliest ancestors I can trace with reasonable confidence are Anthony Timberland and Dinah Hall, my sixth great‑grandparents. They married at St Andrew’s Church, Folkingham, on 14 July 1733. The parish register gives us no parents, no ages, and no clues to their origins, so their beginnings remain uncertain. One possibility is that Anthony was the Anthony Timberland baptised at Helpringham in 1679, but that identification remains unproven and should be treated as a working theory rather than established fact.
