Welcome to Hoare Origins! This website is dedicated to exploring how families named Hore, Hoar or Hoare have originated, multiplied and spread in England from the first parish records in 1538 to the census of 1911 and how they may be inter-related. The great majority of these families originated in English counties lining the south coast, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex and Kent, and in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. I have used maps (e.g. Map families Bovey Tracey) and ‘best-fit’ genealogies (e.g. Genealogy Bovey Tracey) to show how Hore/Hoar/Hoare families including a total of about 16,000 members have evolved and developed. My wide coverage has been achieved by devising provisional ‘best-fit’ genealogies to fit a simple data base – parish records from the FamilySearch website (except for the FindMyPast website for Cornwall and Plymouth) and census records (1841-1911) – without much further verification but always open for improvement.
This is an ongoing project inviting co-operation. The question is – are these wide-spread Hore/Hoar/Hoare families related through a common ancestor or ancestors? My plan is to provide a working and developing framework of ‘best-fit’ genealogies to accommodate more carefully researched individual family trees and to explore with the living descendants of these families their inter-relationships and possible common ancestors using DNA based research as practised and explained in detail in the Guild of One Name Studies Hore website and the related H600 Project on Hore/Hoar/Hoare genealogy in which I am an active participant. If you have identified your Hore/Hoar/Hoare ancestors born before 1911, I hope you will explore whether they can be matched within the 1300 Hore/Hoar/Hoareborn 1880-1911 (see ‘Research and Information’ section, where you can also download GENCOM datafiles) and the genealogies included here, and that you will share your findings. I will be happy to help if you contact me at dghoare@hoareorigins.co.uk. Please do not be put off if these genealogies misspell your ancestors’ surname (Hore/Hoar/Hoare); historically spelling was very variable and I will be pleased to make the correction! If you have a relative who might be interested, please let him/her know of this project.
This project had been my pastime [for] several decades. Separate pages provide an Overview, News, developments and plans and Research and Information which includes accounts of other original research, including that of Hoare’s Bank (C Hoare & Co of Fleet Street, London) into Hore/Hoar/Hoare genealogy to professional standards, and also various less formal genealogies of interest. The results of my own work, with maps and genealogies, can be reached through the menu below:
Finally, where do I fit into this broad family? The first records of my branch of the family are in the early 1500s in the village of Greens Norton near Towcester in Northamptonshire. Major Edward Hoare (b.1621 in Greens Norton) settled in Co. Cork in Ireland and his grandson Samuel Hoare (b.1716) returned and settled in London. My grandfather, Joseph Charles Hoare (b.1851), appears on page 42 of Captain Edward Hoare’s “Early History and Genealogy of the Families of Hore and Hoare” and was a missionary at Ning Po just south of Shanghai in China where my father was born in 1896. He went on to become Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong in 1897. He was drowned with six of his Chinese students in the course of their missionary work when his boat was overwhelmed in the typhoon of 18 September 1906, just north of the modern Hong Kong airport in the eastern channel approaching Hong Kong harbour.