Rev Thomas HAND [1591]

  General Notes:

Thomas Hand 1820 5th Form Upper School; Thomas Hand 1823 6th Form Upper School; Rector of Bulphan ESS 1830-1847 of Clones co., Cavan (correction co., Monaghan), 1947 - Trinity Coll., Oxford.
Eton School Register.

Hand Thomas: 1 s John Staples, of Billericay ESS, cler. Trinity Coll., matric 17 May 1823; aged 17; exhibitioner 1824-25;BA 1827; MA 1830; rector of Bulphan, ESS, 1828-47. then Rector of Clones, co Cavan (see above) 1847, see Eton School Lists. Ref: Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886

The Clogher diocesan secretary in Enniskillen, Glenn Moore, advises m(c.2011) that Thomas Hand was presented by Sir Thomas Lennard Bart and instituted on September 15^th 1847. Sir Thomas Lennard had been an MP for an Essex constituency who also owned a substantial property in Clones at the time. It is worth noting that it was almost certainly from this connection that the youngest son was given the name Lennard as one of his forenames.
Ref: Booklet Rev Thomas & Cassandra Hand Their Family & Descendants - P Tubb, 2012.

Thomas & Cassandra Hand of Clones:
It is my belief that the Rev. Thomas and Cassandra Hand moved into Bishopscourt shortly after the death of the Very Rev Henry Roper in 1847. They called the house 'Altartate Glebe' (Táite na hAltórach). Griffith's Evaluations of the late 1840s lists (14) tenants at Altartate Glebe including the Rev. Thomas Hand.
The Rev. Thomas Hand was Rector of Bulphan in Essex before moving to Ireland. His wife was Cassandra More-Molyneux. The presence of the Molyneux name may indicate a link to the Maddens of Hilton Park outside Clones who were closely related to the Molyneux family in the 17th and early 18th century. The Rev. Thomas Hand succeeded the Very Rev Henry Roper as Church of Ireland Rector of Clones in 1847.
Ref Bishopscourt, Co. Monaghan: http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_houses/hist_hse_bishopscourt.html

An entry in Annie Alstons diary "The Churchmans Almanack 1853" says: T Hand, Clowes (Clones?), Ulster, Ireland.

1862 Rev Thomas Hand is recorded in the Griffiths valuation of that year as being the recipient of the income from the glebe lands of Killylifferbane and Drummonds in County Fermanagh. In addition he is similarly recorded as the immediate lessor of all the premises in Altartate Glebe in Clones town. His own residence is also shown with him holding freehold possession in this Glebe land.
Ref: Booklet Rev Thomas & Cassandra Hand Their Family & Descendants - P Tubb.

In 1867 the Rev Thomas Hand broke his leg and Dr Hoskins of Clones attended him with Mr Collis of Dublin coming to visit him. By September 18^th the Irish Times is reporting "the happy news that Mr Hand will very shortly be able to take 'carriage exercise' and at no distant point be able to resume his important duties". When the Lord Primate visited Clones in 1868 the Rev Hand read the lesson.
Ref: Booklet Rev Thomas & Cassandra Hand Their Family & Descendants - P Tubb.

Thomas left Clones c1873 and moved to the Parish of his late brother-in-law Rev George More-Molyneux, Compton Surrey, where he died the next year.

Hand Rev Thomas formerly of Clones County Monaghan Ireland but late of Compton SRY Clerk Rector of Compton, died 4 Aug 1874 at Compton. Probate 11 Sept 1874. Central Registry by Arthur More Molyneux Esq of Weybank Godalming SRY a Colonel in Her Majestys Indian Army William More Molyneux Esq., of Losely Park nr Guildford and Francis Edmund Eastwood Esq of Tillington Petworth SSX the Executors. Effects under L25,000
Probate Calendar NZSOG

Thomas was not buried in Compton, he was buried with his wife at Clogher.
Pat Tubb writes 2012: According to an extract sent to me by Glenn Moore, the diocesan secretary, from the 1929 book "Clogher Clergy and Parishes" by Rev James B Leslie MA MRIA, both are buried at Trinity Church, Clogh.
The inscription on the grave is at present completely worn away. One of the first things to be done when the grave is refurbished is to replace the lettering . Everyone in the area says he is buried there with Cassandra, including some local people who remember seeing it in earlier years. I feel sure that the Vestry Minutes will confirm this and I hope to contact Mr Moore seeking some photocopy evidence of the burial entry.

In 2013 the Hand Grave at Clogher was restored, it reads:
To The Memory Of
The Rev Thomas Hand
Born 9th of October 1805
Died 4th of August 1874
Aged 68 years
Erected By The Parishioners
Of Clogher and Clones

His Wife Cassandra
Daughter Of The Late
James More-Molineux Esq
Of Losely Park Surrey
Died 21st of October 1868

In My Father's House
There Are Many Mansions
If It Were Not So
I Would Have Told You
I Go to Prepare a Place for You.

Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
Brief Sorrow, Short Lived Care;
The Life That Knows No Ending,
The Tearless Life, Is There.

  Research Notes:

Images courtesy P Tubb - 2012

For more on Clones and its inhabitants see the excellent webpage by Turtle Bunbury:
http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_houses/hist_hse_bishopscourt.html

Hand Family History by Patrica Tubb - 2012

Rev Thomas & Cassandra Hand
Their Family and Descendants.
From the parish records of St Nicholas Church at Compton near Guildford in Surrey I discovered that Cassandra More-Molyneux married the Rev Thomas Hand on May 17^th 1831. This parish church served the Loseley Park estate and the Rector at the time was the Rev George More-Molyneux, who was Cassandra's brother.

It was in 1689 that the male line of the More family came to an end with the death of Sir Robert More and the estate passed to his sister, Margaret, who was married to Sir Thomas Molyneux from Lancashire and, thenceforward, the family name became More-Molyneux.

I have not yet found the exact dates of Cassandra's birth but from the census returns it would appear to have been in 1810 or 1811. Her baptism took place along with a number of her siblings on July 17^th 1812, according to the IGI, but I have not yet been able to ascertain why so many children were baptised at the same time. I have written to the present Rector of St Nicholas but he tells me that all the parish records are deposited in the Surrey Family History Centre in Woking so I hope to go there one day to have a look. [But See Postscipt]

As mentioned earlier, after realising that Rev Thomas and Cassandra went to Clones in 1847, I discovered them both at Bulphan in Essex at the time of the 1841 census. Bulphan is a small village between Romford and Basildon and quite close to the Thames estuary. Thomas is listed as the Rector of the church and they have with them two children, George aged 2 years and Mary aged just 2 months. There were also three male students living in what must have been a fairly substantial house with two female and one male servant. From the IGI I had already discovered the baptisms of two other children in Compton, Thomas More Hand in 1832 who had been baptised at Loseley Park by his own father, and Henry Hand in 1834. [But See Postscript again]

I wrote to the present Rector of Bulphan, Rev Edward Hanson, to see if he could give me any information and he replied that all their records were now in the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford but that the sacramental register for the period was still in his possession and he was able to tell me that Thomas Hand became the Rector in 1828 and that his successor arrived in 1847. Also that there had been four children baptised in Bulphan, John Sidney Hand on August 2^nd 1833, George Molyneux

Hand on October 14^th 1838, Mary Adelaide Hand on May 31^st 1841 and Cassandra Caroline Hand on March 21^st 1843.

From this my curiosity was roused and I decided to find out as much as I could about these children from the public records starting with the ten year census returns.

In 1841 Thomas aged 9 and Sidney aged 8 are living in a rectory at West Tilbury in Essex which must have acted as a school since the Rector, Rev Edward Osborn, with his wife and their six children include in their return five other children and four servants. Henry aged 6 years was also at school but at South Street, Guildford, Surrey which was run by a John Bristow and his wife Lydia. There were eleven pupils altogether.

The Rev George More-Molyneux was, as mentioned earlier, the Rector of St Nicholas at Compton and was with his wife, Ann, and daughters Caroline aged 9, Barbara aged 5 and a son, William aged 7. I mention him and his family here for a number of reasons which will become clearer as we continue with the story.

By 1851 Thomas More Hand is a 19 year old student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. This is the last census entry for him but, as I learnt from the on-line history of Bishopcourt provided by Turtle Bunbury, he died in 1856 in India. His grave inscription at Jamrud Road Cemetery in Peshawar reads "In memory of Lieutenant Thomas More Hand of the 51^st Regt N.I. who was shot by an assassin near the Khyber Pass on the 27^th January 1856 & died the same day deeply regretted by his brother officers aged 22 years and 3 months". Despite the date of birth being incorrect there is little doubt that this is Thomas and Cassandra's eldest son and explains why I could find no reference to him in any census after that of 1851. Incidentally, the N.I. after the regiment means Native Infantry indicating that the regiment was part of the Indian Army which was at that time largely officered by British born officers.

Sidney Hand aged 17 was staying with the Rev George More-Molyneux in Compton, Surrey as was another clergyman H G Hand, probably Thomas's brother. Rev George More-Molyneux and his wife Ann had with them two older daughters than the pair listed in 1841, namely Eleanor aged 25 and Blanche aged 22. Caroline and Barbara are still at home with their parents. Later in the summer of 1851 the Rev Henry George Hand married Caroline A More-Molyneux, George and Ann's 19 year old daughter.

I have been unable to find any reference to Thomas and Cassandra's third son, Henry Hand, in the 1851 census index but, as we later see, he is in the Royal Navy and from his service record we can say that he joined his first ship in 1854.

There is no sign that I can find of George Molyneux Hand in the 1851 census return, probably because he was still in Clones with his parents but I have found reference to his death on December 13^th 1859 at Bath. He is noted on his death certificate as a Lieutenant in the 9^th Bengal Infantry and aged 21 years, and the certificate gives his cause of death as an abscess of the liver and apoplexy. It appears that he had graduated from a military college at Addiscombe, Surrey, in 1857 where he trained for the East India Company, He served with the 82^nd regiment throughout the campaign from Cawnpore to Shahjehampore an Bareilly. The Irish Times of December 17^th 1859 says that he contracted his final illness from over exertion and exposure to the sun. Yet another son of Thomas and Cassandra taken at a young age whilst just setting out on a military career.

Neither Mary Adelaide Hand nor Cassandra Caroline Hand are indexed in the 1851 English census since they would have been with their parents in Clones and the 1851 census of Ireland has not survived in detail.

In the 1861 census index I was surprised to find that Cassandra and Thomas were staying in England at the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire where it looks as if they had rented a house at No 4 Promenade Terrace. Thomas aged 55 is recorded as the Rector of Clones, Ireland and Cassandra is noted as 51 years old. They had with them their daughters Mary Adelaide aged 20 and Cassandra C aged 18 plus four servants all of whom had been born in Ireland. These were house servants John Lowry aged 26 years, Hannah Robinson aged 26 years and Matilda Fitzgerald aged 24 years together with a groom James Doyle aged 19 years.

It is interesting to note that the informant at George Molyneux Hand's death in 1859 at Bath was also a John Lowry - I think it likely to be the same man as was with his parents in Cheltenham in 1861.

I think, too, that the family had come, with a retinue of servants, to take the spa waters as was commonly done when illness was present in families of this social standing. Which particular member of the family was in need of this medication is not known.

It would appear that the family were probably back in Clones the following year, 1862, as Rev Thomas Hand is recorded in the Griffiths valuation of that year as being the recipient of the income from the glebe lands of Killylifferbane and Drummonds in County Fermanagh. In addition he is similarly recorded as the immediate lessor of all the premises in Altartate Glebe in Clones town. His own residence is also shown with him holding freehold possession in this Glebe land. Whether the valuation means that the family were in residence is unclear, but certainly the Church in Clones had the benefit of the properties concerned.

I have found no mention of Henry Hand in this census of 1861 but from the National Archives website I discovered more about his career in the Royal Navy. In particular that during the late 1850s and early 1860s he was serving in Africa where he won praise for his courtesy and for the good condition of the ships in which he served. His service record is not easy to read but it appears that he served on a number of different ships at this time and was for most of 1863 stationed on the west coast of America and was involved in making charts of the navigable coastal lands. He was back in England in 1866 when he married Anna McCheane on January 17^th at St Jude's Church in Southsea and by the end of the decade they had two daughters, Anna E and Cassandra M M.

Unfortunately, Sidney was nowhere to be seen in the census index but, as we shall see from the next census, he was serving in the army and probably abroad.

The Rev Henry George Hand, Thomas's brother, is living with his wife Caroline Anne at Hepworth, Suffolk where he is the rector.

In 1867 the Rev Thomas Hand broke his leg and Dr Hoskins of Clones attended him with Mr Collis of Dublin coming to visit him. By September 18^th the Irish Times is reporting "the happy news that Mr Hand will very shortly be able to take 'carriage exercise' and at no distant point be able to resume his important duties". When the Lord Primate visited Clones in 1868 the Rev Hand read the lesson. This must have been just shortly before the death of his beloved wife, Cassandra, on October 21^st.

I have found from her death certificate, obtained from the National Registry Office in Roscommon, that Cassandra died in Dublin on October 21^st 1868 but have not yet been able to discover why the death happened

there. Her death certificate tells us that the death occurred at 10 Mount Pleasant Square, Ranelagh. The cause of death is given as 'tumour of breast for a few weeks uncertified' and also 'Erysipelas for 8 days, certified'. The informant was a Margaret Patterson of Adelaide Hospital, Dublin. It was, of course, before the discovery of penicillin and associated antibiotic drugs when disorders like erysipelas, an acute streptococcal infection, would have almost always proved fatal.

Details of Thomas's death in 1874 are recorded in the postscript.

The 1871 census finds Henry Hand, now a Commander in the Navy, at home with his wife, Anna, daughters Anna E and Cassandra M M and son, Thomas H H with two servants in Clarence Parade, Southsea, Hampshire. From my knowledge of this area of Portsmouth the house would have had good sea views as well as being well placed to observe the comings and goings of naval vessels into Portsmouth Harbour.

According to his naval record he served on several ships and visited various parts of the world during this decade. He was promoted to Captain on April 18^th 1877 and granted six months leave in 1878 subject to his being available for recall to take a yacht out to the Sultan of Zanzibar.

We at last find Sidney again in this census and he is staying with his uncle, Rev George More-Molyneux at the rectory in Compton, Surrey. He is recorded as being 37 years old, unmarried and a Major in the 82^nd Regiment. Besides the Rev George's wife, Ann, and their two single daughters, Elenor and Blanche, Caroline Ann Hand is also visiting her parents. The family also record four live-in servants.

Further along the road is found the curate, the Rev H W More-Molyneux, son of the rector. Unfortunately he died later that year at just 28 years of age. His father, the Rev George More-Molyneux, died in 1872 so that again the family were saddened by two deaths in close proximity.

The Rev H G Hand is at home in the Rectory at Hepworth, Suffolk in 1871.

In 1880 Cassandra and Thomas's youngest daughter, Cassandra Caroline, was married at St Mark's Church, Notting Hill, London to a widower named Joseph Colling a dealer in works of art whose residence is given as Brighton. One of the witnesses was a William P L Hand, who we now know was her youngest brother.

In the 1881 census we find Henry Hand as Captain of HMS Euphrates. She was a troop ship and has a number of embarked soldiers on board - listed as passengers. There is no indication in the census of where the ship was, nor to where they were heading but Henry's service record shows that he paid off the Euphrates crew on August 10^th 1881 and his next ship, HMS Malabar, is noted as an Indian troop ship also. In fact both Euphrates and Malabar were 6200 ton troop carriers designed for the India route via Suez. The pictures show that they are clearly of the same design and this class of Troopships numbered five vessels in all, including HMS Crocodile on which Henry also served.

From the census index I noted that a Rev William P L Hand, born in Ireland in 1849, was listed and, when I looked up the reference, where was he but on HMS Euphrates as a passenger. He is noted as married and is 32 years old. From his marriage certificate it is clear that William Patrick Leonard is Thomas and Cassandra's youngest son, almost certainly born in Clones. His wife is not on board, but I found her living at the vicarage in Taynton, Oxfordshire. Her name is Amy Augusta Mary aged 28 and listed as a clergyman's wife. With her were their daughters Sylvia A R aged 6, Mary V R aged 5 and Winifred R aged 3 years. The Times of December 6^th 1882 records a baby son born to William and Amy but I can find no mention of this little boy in any other public record so he probably died quite soon after birth.

Amy's maiden name was Rice and their marriage took place at Great Rissington, Gloucestershire on October 2^nd 1873. Her father, Henry Rice, is noted on the marriage certificate as a Clergyman as, of course, is Thomas Hand. William P L Hand's occupation given on the certificate is 'Clergyman' and his residence is Taynton, Oxfordshire.

It is not clear from the census whether William P L was acting as an Army Chaplain and accompanying the troops or just happens to be taking passage with his brother. He is not assigned any army rank, as most chaplains had, and is listed as a passenger at the end of the return after all the troops in rank order. There is, too, another Chaplain listed amongst the ship's company.

The very next entry on the census is for a Herbert Hand, aged 11 years and born in Southsea, Hampshire. Again, I can only think that he is Henry's son who was recorded in the 1871 census as Thomas H H aged just one year.

Henry's wife, Anna, and the family are still at home in Portsmouth and the census shows us four further children making the complete family to be Anna E aged 14, Cassandra M M aged 12, Ida K M aged 9, John St Vincent aged 8, Blanche E M aged 6 and George G aged just 1 year. In addition there are four servants. From Henry's service record I noticed that around 1872-75 he was serving in HMS St Vincent and wonder whether this is how his son, John St Vincent Hand, received his unusual second name.

We have friends who live in Portsmouth, Pat and Brian Russell, and Brian very kindly agreed to do some research for us. He discovered that the house where they lived, called Vancouver, no longer exists having been destroyed during WW2 but had been quite a substantial house in Lennox Road, Portsmouth.

The saddest events during this decade were the deaths of Captain Henry Hand and Colonel John Sidney Hand. Henry retired from active service on September 9^th 1889 due to ill health and died on December 10^th 1889 in Southampton from suppression of Urine, Ureamia and Diabetes. The notes in his service record are quite hard to read but it would appear that he had been ill in 1885 and diagnosed as suffering from Diabetes whilst serving in Jamaica. I think that the family were with him as the record notes a charge of £49 - 5- 7 as part payment for passage of Capt Hand's family from Jamaica to England.

Thanks again to Brian Russell we know that Henry was buried at Highland Road Cemetery in Southsea following a funeral service at St James Church. Brian discovered that the grave is in a very poor state now with the head stone vandalised but it was still possible to read the inscription at the base and so find that Anna had been buried there also, following her death in the summer of 1931.

Sidney died in January 1890 and his obituary in the Times of January 6^th that year gives some detail of his illustrious life in the army. He served most of his time in India, following his brothers, in the 82^nd and the 44^th regiments and rose to the rank of Colonel. His death occurred at 22 The Terrace, Farquhar Road in Dulwich on January 2^nd 1890, less than a month after his brother, Henry's, death. The cause of death is given as 'Mediastinal Abscess' and the informant on the certificate, who was present at the death, is Rev William P L Hand, Brother. William's address as still Taynton Vicarage, Burford.

Cassandra Caroline with her husband Joseph Colling is living at 18 High Street, Notting Hill, London with their baby son, William Sydney J who is just six weeks old at the time of the census.

There is no reference that I can find to Mary Adelaide in the index to the 1881 UK census, but I hope that in future some indication of her life may come to light. It is possible that Mary Adelaide remained in Ireland, perhaps even marrying there, but only time will tell.

The 1891 census return shows Henry's wife, Anna, having moved to 31 Vanburgh Park in Greenwich. She is said to be living on her own means and has with her their sons John St Vincent an 18 year old scholar, George Gordon aged 11 and one daughter, Flora Blanche aged 16. The other daughters are all staying with friends on census night and are recorded where they spent the night. Anna has two servants living in the house with them.

Henry and Anna's daughter, Cassandra Mabel Molyneux Hand married Harold Charles Scroggs, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, at Greenwich on June 6^th 1893. At the time of the census two years earlier she had been staying at the house of her future father in law, the rector of Beech Hill near Newbury in Berkshire. Since the Rev Scroggs died early in 1893 the marriage ceremony was performed by Cassandra's uncle the Rev William P L Hand, vicar of Taynton, and was witnessed by her sister, Ida K M, and mother Anna.

The Rev William P L Hand, his wife Amy and their daughters are together at Taynton, Oxfordshire, where William is the Rector. They have had another daughter, Sybil, who is now aged 8 years. On January 30^th 1896 the Times Ecclesiastical appointments noted that William P L Hand was transferred from Great Barrington to become Vicar at Coln St Aldwyn in Gloucestershire. I have not discovered when he left Taynton for Great Barrington, though it must have been after 1893 as noted above. The Rev William died in the early months of 1900 aged just 51 years old as recorded in the registration district of Northleach, Gloucestershire.

Once again there is no reference in the index of this census for Mary Adelaide Hand.

Cassandra Caroline is living with her husband, Joseph, now retired in St Leonards, Sussex. Their three sons are all at boarding school in Brighton and noted as Sidney aged 10, Jack aged 8 and George aged 6.

Moving to the 1901 census we find Anna, Henry's widow, still living in Greenwich with Ida K M, Flora B E and George Gordon who is working as an insurance clerk. Also in the house are two servants, one of whom Sarah Holdaway, has been with the family ever since at least the 1871 census. There is no sign in the index of John St Vincent Hand but he does reappear as a witness, with their mother Anna, to his sister Ida Kathleen Margaret Hand's wedding on September 11^th 1906 at the church of St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington. Ida's husband was Rev Albert Alexander Turreff and the service was performed by Rev Francis Turreff an Episcopalian clergyman and brother of the groom. The Turreff boys were born in Aberdeen and brought up in Scotland. After the marriage Albert and Ida set up home in Wrockwardine, Shropshire.

Cassandra M M and her husband Harold Scroggs are not indexed in this census which may indicate that his naval service has taken them both overseas and, probably, their child also. They had a boy, Henry Sidney Scroggs, born in 1896 and in 1909 he entered school at Osborne in the same class as the Duke of York, the future George VI. He went on to become a midshipman and was selected for airship training and served at various stations during the 1914-18 war. On the formation of the RAF he was graded as Captain and played for their Rugby team in 1919 and 1920. He married a Margaret F Powell in 1926 and served in many places both home and abroad. He served in the Battle of Britain in 1940 as a Group Captain before being killed on active service on September 29^th 1941 whilst in command of the RAF station on Thorney Island.

Amy Hand, widow of William Patrick L Hand is recorded in 1901 with their four daughters in the village of Stratton, Gloucestershire. However on October 29th 1903 the youngest daughter, Sybil Emily, married Sydney Dennis at St Peter's Cranley Gardens in Kensington. Her mother, Amy, is one of the witnesses and Sybil gives her address as Ashcroft, Cirencester.

The eldest daughter, Sylvia Amy Rhys Hand did not marry until she was 35 years old in 1909. Her marriage also took place at St Peter's Cranley Gardens and her husband was Roland Henry Mangles an officer of 'His Majesty's Land Forces'. Sylvia gives her residence as Twyford, Hampshire. The witnesses include her brother in law, Sydney Dennis and her mother.

Cassandra Caroline is living in 1901with two of her sons in Hove. Jack is training to be an auctioneer and George is apprenticed to a cabinet maker. Her husband Joseph with their eldest son, now noted as Joseph Sidney, is living in Brighton where the son is working as an electrical engineer.

The 1911 census is the last one currently available for searching and we find Anna Hand, Henry's widow, still at Vanburgh Place, Greenwich and she also continues to have Flora Blanche, and George Gordon with her and of course, Sarah Holdaway. George Gordon is recorded as an Insurance Agent but there is no occupation recorded for Flora Blanche. John St Vincent Hand remains elusive in this census as does Anna E and Thomas H H. I have not found any reference to these last two since the 1881 census.

Amy, William's widow, is living at Twyford near Winchester in Hampshire and has her daughter, Mary V R, living with her. Their daughter, Winifred, is a patient in a nursing home in Brighton and her death is recorded in the Steyning registration district late in 1916.

Sybil E R is living with her husband, Sydney Dennis a farmer, in Latton near Cricklade in Wiltshire. There are no children listed with them, but three female servants. I can find no reference to the other sister, Sylvia, which may indicate that she was with her husband and he was serving abroad.

Cassandra Caroline is living in the household of her eldest son, now noted as Aubrey!!, at Winchelsea in Sussex. He had married Annie Rosier two years earlier and the couple had their daughter, Ruby Colling, aged just one year in the household as well as his mother. Cassandra Caroline died in the summer of that year, the last of Thomas and Cassandra's children. Except, of course, that I have not found any certain reference to anything in the life of Mary Adelaide since she was with her parents at Cheltenham in 1861.

This, then, concludes the story of the Hand family up to the start of the twentieth century in so far as I have been able to trace them. However, as time goes on, who knows what further information about them may come to light necessitating further revisions of this story and also tying up various loose ends that still exist.

Looking back we see Thomas and Cassandra's five sons all dying fairly young with just two of them marrying. From these sons and their youngest daughter they have at least fourteen grandchildren. There are, too, at least ten great grandchildren that I have been able to identify, although none of them bears the Hand name and most of them are girls. I wonder how many of them were able to crochet?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to thank the many people who have helped me with this account of the life of Cassandra and her family.
In particular, Maire Treanor who set me off on this quest.
Turtle Bunbury who generously allowed me to use his on-line article and assisted in other ways also.
Martin Wood for also allowing me to use his published book and also for his generous response to my requests for help.
Brian Russell of Portsmouth for visiting record offices and cemeteries in quest of Hand information and encouraging me to use all the information.
Rev Edward Hanson, present Rector of Bulphan Church in Essex for looking through his parish papers on my behalf.
Paul Tubb, husband, mentor, typist etc.

REFERENCES
'Clones Lace The Story and Patterns of an Irish Crochet', Maire Treanor, Mercier Press, Ireland 2002.
'The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More', Martin Wood, Gracewing, Leominster 2008
'Visitation of Surrey' accessed at Leicester Library.
Marriage and Death certificates through the General Register Office, England and General Register Office, Roscommon, Ireland.
From the Internet:-
Victoria County History of Surrey, 1911
London Evening Standard, September 2004
Cobett's Rural Rides 1825
Turtle Bunbury House History Site.
UK Census returns 1841 to 1901 per Ancestry.co.uk
1911 UK Census Return per Find my Past.co uk
Griffiths Valuation of Ireland 1862
National Archives Service records.
Parish Registers per Ancestry.co.uk
International Genealogical Index from Salt Lake City USA.
Pictures of Houses, Churches and Ships from various websites.
Pat Tubb - 2012

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 7 Jun 1841, Bulphan ESS. Thomas is recorded as a clergyman aged 35 born ESS

2. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, 4 Promenade Tce Cheltenham GLS. Thomas is recorded as head of house married aged 55 Rector of Clones Ireland born Gt Benstead ESS. Also in the house were his family and four servants.

3. Clogh Church and Hand Tomb: Ireland.
Bishops Court (Altartate) Clones IRL, Clogh Church, Hand Tomb and inscription - 2012

4. Thomas Hand: Will, 13 Apr 1874.
To be transcribed

Thomas married Cassandra MORE-MOLYNEUX [8222] [MRIN: 2704], daughter of James MORE-MOLYNEUX [9474] and Anne MERRIOTT [9475], on 17 May 1831 in St Nicholas Compton SRY. (Cassandra MORE-MOLYNEUX [8222] was born on 13 May 1809 in Loseley Park Guildford SRY, baptised on 17 Jul 1812 in St Nicholas Guildford SRY, died on 21 Oct 1868 in Ranelagh Rathmines Dublin IRE and was buried in Clogh Churchyard Co Fermanagh IRE.). The cause of her death was breast cancer.

  Marriage Notes:

Thomas & Cassandra were married by Licence by George her brother who was Rector of Compton