This tree was created so that family and friends and possible relations out there in  the world somewhere can see if we are related in some way and get in touch with new  information. A big thank you to all relations close and distant who did a lot of  research on the various branches (there's too many of you to name you all, sorry).

The furtherest our tree can be traced to on the Amos/Ames side (my great grandmother  was 
 Ada Amos) was called Thomas Ames born in 1660's or 1670's in Uttoexeter in  Staffordshire, England and his wife Elizabeth Barton.  The family stayed as Ames  (though I think Ames/Amos is interchangeable) until Thomas Amos (born Ames) and his  wife Mary who lived in Warwickshire, England.  A butcher by trade, he was born 1800.   They had eight children.  Richard, Ruth, Samuel, Mary (died as baby), Thomas, Mary,  Elizabeth and William.  Elizabeth married George Henry Thew. Richard married and  moved to Tonga as a missionary and then later to Australia.  And Samuel who married  twice. Thomas Amos is the great grandfather of my great grandmother  Ada Amos, who married Percival Alfred Hill, where my tree branch begins.

On the Hill side so far we can trace us back to Richard Hill in 1655 and his wife Ann  Fairchild and their children.  On the hill side we have stonemasons, a lot of people  called Isaac, on the Amos' we have Ada's and Sarah's.  Not to mention all the common  names of the time like Mary, Elizabeth, George, Charles, William, Joseph, etc etc.

Our Moore side is actually two families, both from Gloucestershire, but unrelated as  far as we know.  We also have a Rawlings side from around Ruardean, Gloucestershire,  and the Moore's who married them came from Drybrook area and Forest of Dean.  The  other Moore family originated in Gloucester and Bristol and married into the Tyrrell  family, who also came from Gloucester.

Our Jennings side is from Ireland.  Thomas Parkes Jennings (b.1855 in Newry, Armagh,  Ireland) married a Mary A who was from Derry in County Monaghan in Ireland. They  moved to Lancashire and had 12 children, nine of whom survived.  They married into  the Pearson family who were mainly from Lancashire.

I will update this site as time goes on.  Please contact me if you want to query  something or disagree with a date, dates are tentative. Happy reading!  Don't forget  to get in touch with new information if you have it - I would love to hear from you.   Please sign the guest book to let me know what you think.

Belinda Hill.