Hoare Genealogy 07: The Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of
Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire.
By David G Hoare.
(Copyright © 2015, David G Hoare; part of the hoareorigins.co.uk website)
Created: October 2015; last updated: 26 July 2017
In this paper I
explore in more detail the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families which I identified in
Hampshire in the introductory paper in this series, ‘Hoare Genealogy 03’ (Hoare,
2014a). Here, I am concerned particularly with the origins of each family,
how in subsequent generations each family multiplied and radiated outwards and,
after the advent of census records from 1841, their occupations.
Table 1, taken from table 2
in Hoare (2014a), lists the three growth clusters with the numbers of their
descendants.
Table 1. Growth clusters around the Hampshire coast.
|
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
|
|
Catherington** |
2878 |
261 |
1572 |
1538 |
15 |
360 |
15 km N of Portsmouth |
|
Kingsclere** |
797 |
59 |
1570 |
1543 |
45 |
360 |
45 km N of Southampton |
|
Romsey** |
305 |
19 |
1570 |
1569 |
12 |
360 |
12 km NW of Southampton |
|
TOTALS |
3980 |
339 |
|
|
|
|
|
Column headings: A – number of descendants excluding spouses; B – number of male descendants with birth date>1880; C – earliest Hore/Hoar/Hoare christening in cluster; D – earliest record in parish registers in cluster; E – distance of named parish from the coast/km; F – distance from Plymouth along the coast/km; G – location; ** these refer to clusters of parishes rather than single parish growth points.
The H600 Project does not list any family branches in the Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire area.
Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. The growth and radiation of the Romsey, Kingsclere and Catherington
families.
2.1. The Romsey
family.
2.2. The
Kingsclere Family.
2.3. The Catherington Family.
2.4.
Hore/Hoar/Hoare migrants into Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire.
3. The occupations of
Hore/Hoar/Hoare families in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire in the 1800s.
4. Conclusions.
5. References.
1. Introduction.
The
emergence of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families in the Hampshire/Sussex/Wiltshire area
differs from their emergence in the West Country in several respects. First,
there are no records of Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings until around 1570, a full
generation later than the emergence of most Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth points in
the West Country. Second, the early Hore/Hoar/Hoare records are less focussed
than those in the West Country into identifiable growth points within single
parishes. Third, although most of the early records lie near to the coast
between Southampton and Chichester, two early clusters at Salisbury in
Wiltshire and at Kingsclere, between Basingstoke and Newbury in Hampshire, lie
some way inland. Fourth, the census records show that in the latter part of the
19th century a large number of Hore/Hoar/Hoare immigrants entered
the area from the London area, Kent and other counties north of Wiltshire,
Dorset and Devon.
The
three Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth clusters considered in this paper are, like those
in Cornwall and North Devon (Hoare, 2014c) and Dorset (Hoare, 2014d), more widely spaced than the 10‑15 km
spacing between the Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth points along the Plymouth to Exeter
road considered in my second paper (Hoare, 2014b). This once again raises the
question whether migrations of around 50 km by road, or greater distances
by coastal shipping, may also provide a mechanism by which these growth points
may share a common ancestor.
The migrations
involved in the growth and outward radiation are explored in detail in this
paper for which I have provided a map (‘Atlas
Hampshire’) on which the relevant towns and villages can be
located, and which is marked in National Grid 10 km squares allowing easy
estimation of distances. The information on towns and villages is usually taken
from the GENUKI Genealogy UK and Ireland website (genuki.org.uk) which draws on
sources such as Lewis (1849) and White (1850). The population figures and
information on local industries, etc refers to the early to mid 1800s. The
information on the occupations of members of the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families is
drawn from the census returns from 1841. The genealogies arising from each Hore/Hoar/Hoare
growth point are descendant charts generated by the Pedigree programme (e.g. ‘Genealogy
Catherington’) in which the
vertical lines linking together the members of each successive generation are
marked with the number of the generation to make the charts easier to follow.
Use the search facilities provided by your web browser to navigate in the
genealogies by locating any word, etc
such as a name (e.g. ‘George William’), an occupation (e.g. ‘baker’), a
place (e.g. ‘23 Front Street’) or a date (e.g. ‘23Aug1765’).
The geographical
spread of the larger Hore/Hoar/Hoare families are shown very approximately in maps
(e.g. ‘Map
families Catherington’) which show a set of three nested areas into which the
family had spread from its origin in the periods 1538-1600, 1538-1700 and
1538-1800 with relevant towns and villages identified.
These practical
matters are explained more fully in the ‘Introduction’ section of ‘Hoare
Genealogy 04’ (Hoare, 2014b).
2. The growth and radiation of the Romsey, Kingsclere and Catherington
families.
I
have grouped the early Hore/Hoar/Hoare records in the
Hampshire/Sussex/Wiltshire area into three families of possible siblings or
cousins born around the 1540s, equivalent to the early growth points based on
single parishes which I identified in the West Country. These siblings or
cousins are represented as children of a family (b.c.1510-1520) comprising
‘Ancestor Romsey’, ‘Ancestor Kingsclere’ and
‘Ancestor Catherington’ Hore,
where each ‘Ancestor’ may stand for one, two or more siblings. These ‘Ancestors’
are represented plausibly as children of a common ‘Ancestor Hampshire’ Hore
(b.c.1485). These groupings are intended to explore the plausibility of the
Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire being descended
from a common ancestor, possibly shared with the West Country Hore/Hoar/Hoare
families though links via coastal shipping.
The
geographical clustering of the early records in these three families appears to
be consistent with each of these three families springing from a single ancestor.
The DNA results reported in the first of these five papers (Hoare,2014a) showed
that two Hore families living about 25 km apart in the mid‑1500s
shared a common ancestor, and the early records of the Romsey, Kingsclere and Catherington
families (see below) are each clustered within radii of around 25 km or
less. The Romsey and Catherington families are close
to sea ports at Southampton and Portsmouth (see table 1) allowing the
possibility of communication via coastal shipping (Hoare, 2014a) but the Kingsclere
family is equidistant (45 km) between the coast and the Buckinghamshire Hore/Hoar/Hoare cluster (cf ‘Map
families Coastal’) which may make it less
probable that this family shares a common ancestor with the other Hore/Hoar/Hoare
families which lie close to the coast.
The area of the Romsey
family, children of ‘Ancestor Romsey’ Hore (b.c.1510), includes the two
identifiable early Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth points in the parishes of Romsey
(12 km NW of Southampton) and Salisbury (30 km WNW of
Southampton). (cf ‘Map
families Romsey’).
The area of the Kingsclere family, children of ‘Ancestor Kingsclere’
Hore (b.c.1514), includes the parishes of Steventon
(32 km N of Southampton), Kingsclere (45 km N of Southampton) and Burghfield (15 km NE of Kingsclere). (cf ‘Map
families Kingsclere’). The
area of the Catherington family,
descended from ‘Ancestor Catherington’ Hore (b.c.1520), includes the Hore/Hoar/Hoare growth points
in the parishes of Portsmouth and of Catherington
(15 km N of Portsmouth) and other parishes further north past Petersfield
to Kingsley (35 km N of Portsmouth) and west to Bosham
(15 km E of Portsmouth). (cf ‘Map
families Catherington’). The Romsey family
recorded a total of 305 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings, the Kingsclere
family recorded 797 births/christenings and the Catherington
family recorded 2878 births/christenings, yielding an overall total of 3980
births/christenings including 339 male Hore/Hoar/Hoare descendants born between
1880 and 1911.
2.1. The
Romsey family.
The Romsey family was at first
focussed on two growth points at Romsey and Salisbury in the 1500s but then
radiated south and west as far as Ringwood in the New Forest and the Isle of
Wight in the 1600s and 1700s, and further afield after 1800. (cf ‘Map families Romsey’, ‘Genealogy Romsey’).
Romsey was a small market town
(pop.2080) 12 km NW of Southampton with some paper and flax spinning
mills. When parish records began in 1569 they included christenings from 1570
from a lively Hore/Hoar/Hoare community comprising the families of Andrew Hore
(b.c.1545) and his wife Beatrice, and of William Hore (b.c.1547) and his first
and second wives Johan and Eydeth. An elder
sister/cousin, Kateryn Hore,
married Wylliam Wynfield in
1556 at Southampton and a younger sister/cousin, Johan Hore,
married Thomas Prangnell in 1571 at East Tytherly (11 km NW of Romsey). Andrew Hore’s descendants recorded 209
births/christenings and William Hore’s descendants recorded 11 births/christening.
There were 65 Hore/ Hoar/Hoare births/christenings recorded in Romsey (15
in the 1500s; 38 in the 1600s; 9 in the 1700s; 3 in 1800s, last entry 1865) of whom 53 were descendants of Andrew Hore (b.c.1545).
Salisbury was an ancient cathedral
city (pop.12000) 30 km WNW of Southampton. A substantial
Hore/Hoar/Hoare clan started at Salisbury thirteen years after parish records
began in 1559, when John Hore (b.c.1547) married Marcie Moring in 1572 and
started a family, followed by William Hore (b.c.1554) who christened a son in
1579 and another John Hore (b.c.1556) who christened a daughter in Winterbourne
Gunner (5 km NE of Salisbury) in 1581. John (b.c.1547) Hore’s descendants
recorded at total of 82 births/christenings, the last in 1908. There were
a total of 68 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings recorded in Salisbury and,
from 1730‑1783, in the neighbouring village of Laverstock
(1 km E of Salisbury), 12 in the 1500s; 6 in the 1600s; 31 in the 1700s;
13 in the 1800s; 6 in the 1900s, the last in 1908, of whom 57 were descendants
of John Hore (b.c.1547).
By
1700, the Romsey Hore/Hoar/Hoare family had radiated outward from Romsey and
Southampton into twelve further parishes bounded in the west by Bramshaw (12 km SW of Romsey), in the north by
Winchester (15 km NE of Romsey) and in the south by Yarmouth and Cowes
(about 30 km S of Romsey) on the northwest coast of the Isle of Wight.
Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings were recorded in two more parishes in this
area during the 1700s and also further west at Ringwood.
Ringwood
was a small town in the New Forest (pop.1330), 27 km SW of Romsey, where a
Hore/Hoar/Hoare community started in 1749 with the family of Abraham Hore
(b.c.1724) who was an incomer, probably from Romsey. Abraham Hore’s descendants recorded
80 births/christenings, the last in 1909. There were
47 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings recorded in Ringwood (13 in the
1700s; 30 in the 1800s; 4 in the 1900s, the last in 1909), all descendants of
Abraham Hore.
In
the 1800s, the Ringwood family radiated more widely into six more parishes,
including Abbots Ann (21 km NE of Salisbury), Chute (30 km NNE of
Salisbury) and Wilton (33 km NNE of Salisbury) in the north and Portsmouth
in the southeast.
2.2.
The Kingsclere Family.
The Kingsclere family first emerged
around about 1570 in the parishes of Steventon
(35 km N of Southampton and 10 km SW of Basingstoke), Burghfield (52 km N of Southampton and 8 km SW of
Reading) and Kingsclere (45 km N of Southampton between Basingstoke and
Newbury) spreading from Kingsclere to Thatcham (10 km N of Kingsclere) in
1585. (cf ‘Map family Kingsclere’, ‘Genealogy Kingsclere’).
Steventon
(pop.190) was a small village with parish records from 1558 which record the
marriage of Richard Hoore to Edyth
Doo in 1566.
Burghfield
was a village (pop.1200) on the bank of the River Kennett with parish records
from 1559 which record from 1571 the christenings of the family of ‘No
forename’ Hore (b.c.1546; his forename is not recorded in the records!). ‘No
forename’ Hore’s descendants recorded 498 births/christening of which the last
was in 1909 at Pewsey (16 km E of Devises in Wiltshire).
Kingsclere (pop.1175) was a market
town on the Downs in agricultural and wooded countryside. Parish records
commence in 1543 and record the marriage of Elsabeth Hore in 1559, of William Hore
(b.c.1543) to Jone Savage in 1568 and to Frysmith Webbe in 1579, and of
John Hore (b.c.1549) to Alys
Roobie in 1574 and to Mathee
Long in 1576. William Hore’s descendants recorded 11 births/christening of
which the last was in 1626 at Thatcham in Berkshire. John Hore’s descendants recorded
335 births/christenings of which the last was in 1910 at Wickham (7 km N
of Fareham in Hampshire).
By 1700, the Kingsclere family had
radiated outwards into a further eight parishes in a triangular area bounded in
the north by Leckhamstead (10 km N of Newbury),
in the west by Kintbury (16 km NW of Kingsclere
and 10 km W of Newbury) and in the southeast by Froyle
(27 km SE of Kingsclere and 8 km W of Farnham). Three of these were
particularly significant. Thatcham (pop.2860) is a village 10 km N of
Kingsclere to which William Hore (b.c.1543) migrated from Kingsclere with his
second wife Frysmith after his marriage in 1579; the
parish records (from 1560) record 15 Hore/Hoar/Hoare christenings between 1585
and 1763. Wootton St Lawrence (pop.900) is a village 9 km SE of
Kingsclere; the parish records (from 1560) record 20 Hore/Hoar/Hoare
christening between 1614 and 1702, all descendants of John Hore (b.c.1549) of
Kingsclere.
By 1799, the Kingsclere family had
grown very considerably, radiating out into twenty five further parishes
occupying a larger area bounded in the west by Tidcombe
(25 km W of Kingsclere), in the north by Mapledurham
(27 km NNE of Kingsclere and 8 km WNW of Reading), in the east by Crondall (29 km ESE of Kingsclere and 6 km NW of
Farnham) and in the south by Goodworth Clatford (23 km SW of Kingsclere and 4 km S of
Andover). These parishes included several in which more than 20 Hore/Hoar/Hoare
births/christenings were recorded. The neighbouring villages of Tidcombe and Shalbourne
(25 km W of Kingsclere) recorded 37 births/christenings between 1734 and
1869 and 43 births/christenings between 1717 and 1819, respectively. Cliddesdon
(17 km SE of Kingsclere and 3 km S of Basingstoke) recorded 28 births/christenings
between 1722 and 1802. The largest
growth centre was Crondal (29 km ESE of
Kingsclere and 6 km NW of Farnham) which recorded 112 births/christenings
between 1784 and 1896, of which 96 were from the Kingsclere family and 16
(between 1801 and 1867 ) from the Catherington
family.
Between 1800 and 1905, the
Kingsclere family multiplied and recorded births/christenings in a further 53
parishes in an area which had expanded to Devises and Swindon in the west and
to Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the south.
2.3. The Catherington Family.
The Catherington
family first emerged around 1570 to 1580 at Priors Dean (25 km N of
Portsmouth), Clanfield and Catherington
(17 and14 km respectively N of Portsmouth) and Alverstock
(5 km W of Portsmouth, including Gosport). (cf ‘Map families Catherington’, ‘Genealogy Catherington’).
Priors Dean (pop.150) is a hamlet
2 km W of Hawkley, 25 km N of Portsmouth
and 7 km N of Petersfield. The parish records (from 1538) record the
christening in 1570 of Joana, daughter of Guilielmus Hore (b.c.1545). Guilielmus was also the grandfather of three families in
nearby villages. At Fernhurst (16 km E of Priors
Dean) the records (from 1547) record the christenings of William and Edward (in
1612), sons of William Hore (b.c.1587). In Kingsley (11 km N of Priors
Dean) the records (from 1568) record the christening of Elizabeth (in 1590),
daughter of Richard Hoore (b.c.1565), and of William (b.1585), son of John Whoare (b.c.1560) who was probably also father to Richard
(b.c.1595). Richard (b.c.1595) Hore’s descendants recorded 13 christenings, the
last in 1707 at Headley (12 km NNE of Priors Dean). Guilielmus
Hore’s descendants recorded at total of 20
births/christenings, the last in 1707.
Clanfield
(pop.550) is a village 17 km N of Portsmouth and close to the main road to
Petersfield. The parish records (from 1563) record from 1578 the christenings
of members of the family of ‘No forename’ Hore (b.c.1545; his forename is not
recorded in the records!). His sons Roger (b.c.1580) and Jo (b.c.1586) and
daughters Thomasin (b.c.1579) and Margery (b.c.1596)
migrated 3 km southwards to the neighbouring village of Catherington in which a substantial Hore/Hoar/Hoare colony
developed from Roger’s descendants (see below). ‘No forename’ Hore’s son Richard
(b.1585) migrated to Westbourne (10 km S of Clanfield
and 13 km NE of Portsmouth) whence his descendants initiated the very
large Hore/Hoar/Hoare community at Portsmouth and Portsea. ‘No forename’ Hore’s
daughter Margaret (b.c.1581) christened a probably illegitimate son John in
1601 at Southwick (10 km S of Clanfield and
8 km N of Portsmouth). The descendants of ‘No forename’ Hore of Clanfield recorded a total
of 2289 births/christenings, the last in 1911. Of these, 1988 were through his
son Roger Hore of Catherington.
Catherington
(pop.2500) was a village 14 km N of Portsmouth (and 3 km S of Clanfield). The parish records (from 1599) show the
marriages of Thomasin Hore
in 1599, and of Margery Hore in 1624, the christening of Roger Hore’s son John
in 1607 (followed by others in his family) and of Jo Hore’s daughter Elizabeth
in 1611. There were 147 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings recorded at Catherington (the last in 1888) of which 133 were
descendants of Roger Hore (b.c.1580).
The parish of Alverstoke
(pop.16000) included the town of Gosport, 5 km W of Portsmouth on the west
bank of Portsmouth Harbour. The parish records (from 1559) record in 1582 the
christening of Sara, daughter of Henry Hore (b.c.1547). Sara had three elder
brothers. Thomas (b.c.1572) married Jone Cockwell in 1597 at Bosham (17 km E of Portsmouth on
Chichester harbour) where they christened two sons. Roger (b.c.1577) recorded
the christening of a son and a daughter at Wisborough
Green (45 km NE of Portsmouth and 17 km WSW of Horsham). Umfrey (b.c.1579) settled with his family at Graffham (32 km NE of Portsmouth and 7 km SE of
Midhurst). The descendants of Henry (b.c.1547) Hore
of Alverstoke recorded 569 births/christenings, 554
of them through his son Umfrey.
Between 1620 and 1699, the Catherington family recorded christenings in a further
eighteen parishes in an area bounded approximately in the southwest by Alverstock/Gosport (5 km W of Portsmouth), in the
north by Headley (38 km NNE of Portsmouth and 11 km S of Farnham) in
the east by Horsham (62 km ENE of Portsmouth). The Hore/Hoar/Hoare
community at Clanfield and Catherington
expanded into the neighbouring villages of Chalton
(43 births/christening from 1656 to 1878) and Blendworth
(32 births/christenings from 1665 to 1837), all descendants of ‘No forename’ Hore (b.c.1545) of Clanfield. This
community also expanded northwards and established Hore/Hoar/Hoare
communities at Bramshott (22 km NNE of Catherington; 46 births/christenings from 1693 to 1908),
Headley (25 km NNE of Catherington; 13
births/christenings from 1696 to 1890), and Hawkley
(18 km N of Catherington; 38 births/christening
from 1697 to 1895). A Hore/Hoar/Hoare community was established at Horsham (63 km
ENE of Portsmouth) recording 37 births/christenings from 1654 to 1908 of which
34 were descendants of Henry (b.c.1547) Hore of Alverstoke via his son Roger (b.c.1577) of Wisborough Green.
The largest new Hore/Hoar/Hoare community by far established by the Catherington family in this period 1620-99 was at
Portsmouth (pop.75000) which was a substantial town with a large harbour and
Royal Naval base and two principal parishes, St Thomas in the east and Portsea in the west centred by the harbour
and Royal Naval base.
The parish records of St Thomas in
Portsmouth (from 1651) record the christenings of the family of Thomas and Mary
Hore from 1670. Thomas (b.1620 at Westbourne) was the son of Richard Hore
(b.1585) of Westbourne and grandson of ‘No forename’ Hore
(b.1545) of Clanfield (see above). In his first marriage to Elizabeth he
christened their daughter Margery in 1638 at Racton
(pop.100; 5 km NE of Westbourne). In his second marriage to Mary they
first moved to Chalton (4 km E of Clanfield) where they christened their son Roger in 1656,
and then moved to Portsmouth where they christened their daughter Mary and
subsequent children at St Thomas’ church from 1670. The parish records of Portsea
(from 1666) record the christenings of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families from 1683.
552 Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings
were recorded in Portsmouth from 1670 to 1911 (9 in the 1600s; 101 in the
1700s; 387 in the 1800s; 55 from 1900-1911). Of these, none came from the
Kingsclere family, 19 came from the Romsey family (1859-1907) and 484 from the Catherington family (1670 to 1911) of whom 181 were
descendants of Thomas Hore (b.1620) of Westbourne who first settled in
Portsmouth.
During the 1700s, the Catherington family expanded into 47 further parishes in an
increased area bounded approximately in the west by Southampton and Winchester,
in the north by Froyle (8 km W of Farnham), in
the east by Horsham and Patcham (4 km N of Brighton) and in the south by
Portsmouth. New Hore/Hoar/Hoare communities sprang up around Portsmouth at
Havant (9 km NE of Portsmouth; 74 births/christenings from 1733 to
1909), Gosport (5 km W of Portsmouth; 35 births/christenings from1790 to
1911), North and South Hayling (8 km W of Portsmouth). The existing
cluster of communities around Hawkley (18 km N
of Catherington) was increased by new communities at Buriton (7 km ENE of Catherington;
27 births/christening from 1781 to 1872), at Petersfield (11 km NNE
of Catherington; 66 births/christenings from
1791 to 1894), at Rogate (15 km ENE of Catherington; 18 births/christenings from 1778 to
1860), at Liss (17 km NNE of Catherington;
33 births/christenings from 1785 to 1904) and Selborne
(20 km N of Catherington;
134 births/christenings from 1791 to 1899), the home of Gilbert White
(1720-1793). Two more communities developed near the community at Horsham
(63 km ENE of Portsmouth) at Alfold (13 km W of Horsham;
17 births/christenings from 1718 to 1849) and at Rudgwick
(8 km W of Horsham; 17 births/christenings from 1775 to 1889). A
cluster of communities developed at Chichester (22 km E of Portsmouth;
71 births/christenings from 1793 to 1911) and within 10 km to the
south at West Wittering (45 births/christenings from 1758 to 1870), Sidlesham (40 births/christenings from 1787 to 1893)
and at several other parishes. Eastward along the coast to the east communities
developed at Durrington (27 km E of Chichester; 19 births/christenings
from 1792 to 1901), at Lancing (34 km E of Chichester;
10 births/christenings from 1730 to 1793) and at Patcham (45 km E of
Chichester; 16 births/christenings from 1775 to 1857).
Between 1800 and 1911, the Catherington family expanded into 124 further parishes in
an increased area bounded approximately in the southwest by Eling
(32 km WNW of Portsmouth and 5 km W of Southampton), in the northwest
by Froxfield (76 km NNW of Portsmouth and17 km
W of Newbury), in the north by Reading (73 km N of Portsmouth) and in the
east by Hastings (115 km E of Portsmouth). To the west of Portsmouth,
these include new Hore/Hoar/Hoare communities at Fareham (10 km WNW of
Portsmouth; 44 births/christenings from 1803 to 1909), Titchfield
(13 km WNW of Portsmouth; 19 births/christenings from 1820 to 1880),
Bishops Waltham (21 km NE of Portsmouth; 66 births/christenings from
1871 to 1891) and Southampton (28 km WNW of Portsmouth;
75 births/christenings from 1815 to 1911). To the east of Portsmouth, new
communities arose at Worthing (52 km E of Portsmouth; 24 births/christenings
from 1837 to 1904), Brighton (65 km E of Portsmouth;
46 births/christenings from 1824 to 1910) and Hastings (115 km E of
Portsmouth; 13 births/christenings from 1824 to 1830).
2.4.
Hore/Hoar/Hoare migrants into Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire.
The advent of census records
including place of birth (from 1851) reveals that a very significant number of
Hore/Hoar/Hoare births in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire were descendants of
immigrants from other counties. This differs from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
where the number of such immigrants was much smaller (and they were not
included in this study). Table 2 shows the number of these immigrants and the
number of their descendants born in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire, against
the county/country of origin.
Table
2. Hore/Hoar/Hoare migrants into
Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire.
Origin |
A |
B |
C |
|
Cornwall |
10 |
29 |
1834-1911 |
|
Devon |
15 |
27 |
1833-1905 |
|
Dorset |
43 |
121 |
1823-1911 |
|
Kent |
15 |
21 |
1848-1911 |
|
Surrey |
21 |
25 |
1837-1911 |
|
London area |
35 |
64 |
1849-1911 |
|
Ireland |
10 |
6 |
1828-1863 |
|
Other |
39 |
84 |
1835-1911 |
|
TOTALS |
188 |
377 |
|
Column headings:
A
– number of immigrants; B – number
of descendants born/christened in Hampshire, Sussex or Wiltshire; C – birth date range.
The counties/countries grouped together under ‘Other’ with their number
of immigrants are as follows: Bedfordshire 2; Berkshire 1; Ceylon 4; Glamorgan
1; Gloucestershire 2; Herefordshire 2; Hertfordshire 1; Leicestershire 1;
Lincolnshire 1; Norfolk 1; Northamptonshire 1; Nottinghamshire 1; Oxfordshire
2; Somerset 12; Warwickshire 3; Worcestershire 1; Yorkshire 1. The 377
descendants of immigrants amount to about 16% of the total number of
Hore/Hoar/Hoare births/christenings between 1830 and 1911 in Hampshire, Sussex
and Wiltshire.
3. The
occupations of Hore/Hoar/Hoare families in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire in
the 1800s.
The census returns from 1841showed
that the Hore/Hoar/Hoare family members in Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire were
generally engaged in very similar occupations to those reported for similar
family members in Devon and Dorset (Cornwall included much mining), although
the occupations of immigrants into the area and their descendants showed
interesting differences.
Among the men, a moderate proportion were engaged in higher status,
non-manual ‘white collar’ occupations generally requiring some education
including accountant, annuitant, architect’s clerk, assurance agent, bath chair
proprietor, bedding manufacturer, bookseller (2), builder’s merchant salesman, carpet
planner, cattle dealer, Civil Service 2nd class, clerk at HM
Customs, furnishing salesman, gentleman, insurance agent, land surveyor (3), living
on his own means (3), machinery dealer, manager leather warehouse, managing
director engineering firm, mechanical engineering draughtsman, medical
practitioner (2), overseer of the poor, owner of land, photographer (2), post
office clerk, railway clerk (2), sanitary inspector, shorthand tutor, solicitor’s
articles clerk and teacher (9).
The substantial proportion of men were engaged in manual ‘blue collar’
craft or trade occupations involving some skill and responsibility including armourer
RN, army pensioner (2), baker (15), bargeman, beer retailer (2), blacksmith
(20), boiler maker (2), boot and leather salesman (2), boot and shoe maker (17),
brewer (5), bricklayer (33), brick maker (3), builder (7), bus driver, butcher (12), cabinet
maker, caretaker of a Board School, carpenter (47), cellarman,
chauffeur, chimney sweep, coachman (7), coal and wood dealer (2), coal heaver, coach
painter, coast guard, confectioner (2), cook, cordwainer (3), corporal RMA,
coxswain in Gunwharfe, cutler, cycle mechanic, draper
(7), driller, electric engine driver stationary, electrical fitter (2), engine
driver (3), engine builder, engine fitter (2), engine stoker (2), fish
hawker/merchant (5), fisherman, fixed portable engine driver, footman (2), gas
fitter (2), gas stoker, gents outfitter, golfer’s caddy, green grocer (3),
grocer (13), gunner Royal Marine Artillery (2), hairdresser (4), hammer man,
harness maker (11), hawker, house furnisher, ironmonger (2), lamp lighter (2),
leather cutter, letter carrier, machine minder, mariner (14), mechanical
engineer (2), militia, milk man (4), miller (7), mineral water trade, motor
dealer and repairer, motor engineer (2), plasterer (4), oil merchant, naval
pensioner (3), naval reservist, ostler (2), painter and decorator (11), paymaster
RN, plumber (4), police constable, porter, postman (3), printer (4), private 2nd
Hants regiment, publican (8), railway plate layer, railway shunter, rope maker
machinist, sail maker, sawyer (9), servant, ship/boat finisher (2), shipwright
(7), ship’s cook, shop assistant (2), soldier Sussex Yeomanry, stoker RN (2), stationary
engine man (2), stevedore, stoker RN (3), sub lieut. RN, Sussex Militia Band, switch
board attendant, tailor (6), tanner, telegraphist’s messenger (4), threshing
machine maker, tinker, traction engine driver, tramway motor man, turner
railway works (2), upholsterer, victualler (5), waiter (2), warrant officer RN,
wheelwright (4), waterman (2), whitesmith (2) and zinc worker.
In the agricultural sphere, the higher status occupations included dairy
farmer, farmer (11), market gardener (3), farmer of 48
acres, farmer of 30 acres, farmer of 100 acres (3) and pig dealer. The humbler
occupations included agricultural labourer (117), bailiff (3), carter (10), cattle
stockman (5), dairyman (4), gamekeeper (3), gardener (34), groom (5), labourer
(88), plough boy (2), shepherd (9), steerman and feeder
steam thrasher, toll collector, woodcutter (2) and woodman (4).
The disadvantaged and less
successful included invalid, parish relief (2), pauper (6) and prisoner.
Among the women, principally younger
unmarried women or widows, the higher status occupations included annuitant (4),
cashier, living on her own means (4), post office clerk, school mistress (4)
and teacher Dancing and Dressmaking School (3). Other occupations included bar
maid (3), cigarette maker (2), cook (3), corset/stay maker (14), domestic
servant (14), dress maker (33), house keeper (10), house maid (3), knitter
(machine), lady’s maid, laundress (10), needlewoman (2), nurse (4), nursemaid,
parlour maid, seamstress (2), servant (12), shop assistant (3) and tailoress. In the agricultural sphere, there were agricultural
labourer, dairy maid (2) and labourer. Among the disadvantaged, there was one invalid.
The pattern of occupations among
Hore/Hoar/Hoare immigrants into Hampshire, Sussex and Wiltshire (excluding
those from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall) and their descendants is strikingly
different, with a higher proportion of high status occupations and almost no
agricultural or unskilled occupations.
Among the men, the higher status, non-manual ‘white collar’ occupations
included Admiral RN, annuitant, auctioneer/estate agent, banker (2), bank clerk
(3), baronet, barrister, captain RAMC, captain army, captain RN, clergyman (2),
coffee planter (Ceylon), colonel militia, commercial clerk (2), curate, customs
clerk (2), dealer in sewing machines, dealer in sweets and tobacco, excise
officer 1st class, furniture dealer, hotel keeper (2), income from
dividends (3), Justice of the Peace (3), land owner, lieutenant army (2),
living on own means (2), London banker, major HM Army, major general RE, medical
student, merchant, musician, paymaster RN, physician and surgeon, private means
(4), solicitor (3), solicitor’s clerk, sculptor (monumental), superintendent
registrar, teacher, undergraduate Oxford, underwriter, vicar, wine and spirits
manufacturer and wine merchant (2).
The manual ‘blue collar’ craft or trade occupations involving some
skill and responsibility included arc lamp trimmer, army reservist, baker (5), blacksmith
RN, boatman and cartman, bombardier HM Artillery,
boot factor, bricklayer (2), brushmaker, builder, butcher, butler, cabinet maker,
carpenter (4), Chelsea pensioner, coachman (4), coast guard, commercial
traveller (2), confectioner, detective constable, engine driver (2), engine
fitter, fruit salesman (2), engineer (2),
gas fitter (2), golf caddy, greengrocer (2), grocer (3), hosier, lodging
house keeper (2), mariner, motor car engineer, painter, pensioner RN, porter, postman,
railway mechanic, railway platelayer, sergeant army, shop assistant (2),
shopkeeper, soldier, telegraph foreman, upholsterer and wool stapler.
The few occupations in the agricultural sphere included farmer of 560
acres, market gardener (3), gardener (11), groom (2) and labourer (12).
The occupations declared by women included annuitant (3), artist,
living on own means (3), army nursing service, cloth worker (3), drapery, dress
maker (5), housekeeper (3) and shop assistant.
4.
Conclusions.
These results suggest two points of
interest and priority.
(1) The origins
of the Catherington, Kingsclere
and Romsey families. Each of these ‘families’ appears to emerge as a group of
two or a few families recording christenings from around the 1570s and close
enough to have plausibly shared a recent common ancestor. The Catherington and Romsey families are close to coastal
shipping at Portsmouth and Southampton and so might also had shared a common
ancestor with the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of Devon via Plymouth, Exeter or
Axminster, which were recording christenings from around the 1540s. Kingsclere
is equidistant (45 km) between the south coast and the cluster of
Hore/Hoar/Hoare in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. DNA results are
required to identify the origins of these families. Unfortunately the H600
Project reports no DNA results for family branches in this area, but there
seems likely to be living descendants of the families in this area (cf table 1 above) who maybe able to provide the necessity
DNA data.
(2) The
possible migration of Hampshire Hore/Hoar/Hoare families to east Dorset in the
early 1770s. The possibly was explored (‘Hoare Genealogy 06’, section 3) that
the Hore/Hoar/Hoare families of east Dorset may have been descended in the
early 1770s from Hampshire Hore/Hoar/Hoare families via migration on coastal
shipping from Southampton and Portsmouth to Poole, Wareham or Weymouth. DNA
evidence will be required to test this possibility.
5.
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