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Hi Pamela!

Now I remember your message. Wow, I must be losing it.

It's a long story: I'm descended from William and Ann's son Joseph HANDS, born 1856 in Woking, Surrey. He married Emma Kezia HUCKLE in 1876. Their first five children, including my great-grandmother Edith Malvina HUCKLE, were born in Dartford, Kent. In 1886, they sailed to Australia aboard the Harbinger. In Australia they had another five children, the last two of whom died, Emma dying either during childbirth or shortly thereafter in 1898. Edith married Horace Maitland St. Albans HOWARTH, and they had one child, Daphne Florence HOWARTH, my grandmother. She married an American soldier, Charles WENN, who took her back to the United States to live. They had two children. Their son, Dallas WENN, was my father. Here's the amazing part: I was given up for adoption at birth and never met ANY of these people. As an adult I located my aunt Barbara, Dallas's sister. All the genealogy research I've done on my own since Barbara knew very little. So, needless to say...I have no pictures of the HANDS family. But I'm looking for any info I can get. I didn't know Ann's maiden name was Carr, for example.