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Elizabeth HANDS (caution: marriage not verified)

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We know of Elizabeth's existence from a parish record of the baptism of a Mary Hudson in Newport, Co. Tipperary on 14 July 1797. Her parents were Richard Hudson (spelled Hutson in the registry) and Elizabeth Hands (although the surname looks like Jones in the register, it is not). This was a Catholic baptism so we originally thought it had nothing to do with our Richard Hudson. However, Hudson researcher Tom Moloney later discovered a possible connection between a Hands family and our Hudsons. On 30 July 1821 an Elizabeth Marinane of Bunagara, Listowel, Co. Kerry was baptised in Listowel. The child's parents were Thomas Marinane (a form of Murnane) and Anne Hutson (sic), and the sponsors were Thadeus Quilter and Elizabeth Handes.

I have been matched by Ancestry with a number of descendants of Mary above; and while I have no evidence to prove Anne Hutson was indeed related to my Hudsons, I think it reasonable to assume that, given the Bunagara connection and the DNA matching, it is likely she was.

On 27 June 1824, in Tralee, another child of Thomas and Anne's was baptised. Her name was Ann; the sponsors were Daniel Almon and Elizabeth Hudson; and the family's address was Tralee. Of course none of this proves that the family of Elizabeth Hands whose child was baptised in Newport in 1797 is connected to the family of Elizabeth Handes who was a sponsor of Elizabeth Marinane in 1821, but the Hands/Handes surname is quite unusual in Ireland so the above is worth noting.

Interestingly, there was a baptism in Listowel on 30 January 1860 of an Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of another Richard Hudson and Elizabeth Hands. Unfortunately I have been unable to figure out who this Richard was.

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