Records of John Hand on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Hand in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Hand and the Hand Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hand Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Hand family tree.

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Hand Genealogy Databases

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Some Famous People called John Hand

John Hand (priest)

Fr. John Hand (1807–1846) was an Irish priest and the founder of All Hallows College in Dublin.

John Hand was born Bolies, near Oldcastle, County Meath in August 1807, to Luke and Margaret (née Fox) Hand. His family suffered eviction.

He went to school at Navan Seminary some eight miles walk from where he lived; he excelled in his studies, winning a competition for entry to Maynooth, started his priestly studies in Maynooth College in August 1831, but left in 1835 to join the Vincentians in St. Peter's, Phibsborough, Dublin, under Dean Philip Dowley, who had left Maynooth in 1833 to set up the Vincentians in Dublin.

Fr. Hand was ordained a priest on 13 December 1835, by the Rt. Rev. William Clancy in the private chapel of St. Vincent's Seminary at Castleknock.

He visited Lyon in France, and was inspired by the organisation for the propagation of the faith to set up a missionary college in Dublin. He returned to Dublin and set up in 1842 All Hallows Missionary College, in Drumcondra, renting Drumcondra House north of the Tolka river, the lands were owned by Dublin Corporation at the time, and Daniel O'Connell who was Mayor at the time assisted Fr. Hand in getting the lands. He served as the College's first president.

He died aged 38, in May 1846, after suffering a lung haemorrhage some weeks earlier, and is buried in All Hallows Cemetery, in the college grounds, he was survived by his parents. His younger Brother Luke Hand also became a priest serving in Bathhurst, New South Wales, Australia, commencing his clerical training in All Hallows in 1846, shortly before John died.

Source: John Hand (priest), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Hand

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