“Everyone has a story. Every story matters.”
Nicole Wedemeyer Miller
This is the first post on my new blog on my family history. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. I will be posting about the descendants to John Hapgood (1791-1865) and Elizabeth Shore (1790-1872), and particularly their son Thomas Hapgood and his wife Hester Hanney (my direct ancestors) who were all from the small village of Marksbury in Somerset, England, and emigrated to Ulladulla Australia in the 1850s.
The blog focusses on the Australian side of the family – Thomas and Hester HAPGOOD (nee HANNEY ), the next generation of Richard HAPGOOD and Jane WEARING, whose son William HAPGOOD married Clara Rose NEWTON, and their son Jeffrey Gordon HAPGOOD was my grandfather, who married Amy Patricia WADDELL..
Thomas Hapgood and his brother George Hapgood emigrated together, with their wives Hester Hanney and Hannah Sims and their children to New South Wales, Australia on the “Lady Ann” in 1854 . Their sister Susannah Hapgood also emigrated with her husband Edward Dando to Victoria in 1853 – a year before her brothers.
The maternal side of my fathers family are the WADDELL family. They were from County Clare, Ireland, and emigrated to Queensland. My grandmother Amy Patricia Waddell (1907-1983) married Jeffrey Gordon Hapgood (1899-1953), and the Waddells are another large family going back several generations.
This blog will focus on only my father’s Hapgood side of the family – the Hapgoods and the Waddells – otherwise its will become too big and complex to manage two separate families in one blog. This may change in future, but for now the Hapgood family is a big enough group to keep me well occupied….
If you have info to share, get in touch by emailing karenhapgood [at] gmail.com
Hapgoods from Marksbury 
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you have done a momentous job gathering all this information, well done.
i have been vaguely aware for sometime that my husband’s great great grandparents Nelson and Sarah Jackson had a connection to kin kin somehow.
now I see your great grandparents moved there.
strangely both my paternal great grandparents moved to the kin kin area.
i believe perhaps some of your relatives and therefore also my husband’s distantly have attended some of my Grady family reunions in kin kin as family friends.
just as I thought the world was growing out of control it suddenly appears scarily small.
as far as I can tell gratefully my husband and I do Not share any of these distant relations, phew.
although it seems we may all be a little bananas or at least all had ancestors growing bananas around the same period. Perhaps it was easier work than dairying or they hoped it would be.
very interesting
E Ronan (nee Grady)
great granddaughter of
Annie Ellen and James Flood Walker
and of
William Bede and Ilma Rosalie Grady
both kin kin families .
wife of Peter Ronan descendant of
Nelson and Sarah Jackson
James and Catherine Jackson
Hilda Jackson and Thomas Ronan
Marie and Ken Ronan
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Hello Liz. Thanks for your kind words. Their are many Kin Kin interconnections. Nelson Jackson and Sarah Horne’s daughter Anne Jackson married Joseph Newton and their daughter Sarah Anne Newton married Bill Payne who was part of the “Risley group” that originally settled Kin Kin. My gg grandfather Hapgood Wiliam Hapgood married Clara Newton (Sarahs sister) and they bought the farm next door to Sarah and Bill around 1910. Nelson and Sarah had another son, John Jackson who married Mary Anne Hapgood. Their daughter Alice Jackson moved to Kin Kin Alice Jackson married Arthur Sheppersen in 1915 – Sheppersens are another well known Kin Kin family who were also part of the “Risley” group. So between Jacksons, Hapgoods and Newtons and all their interconnections over the generations there are a lot of Kin Kin (and Northern NSW) connections. Ronan is also a very famous Jackson-family name!
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