Hodges From Birmingham

[146ESR]

Hi

Can anyone help please. looking for Hodges from Warwickshire. I have been tracing back my family name Hodges and found that the name is quite established in the Surrey area with one or two moving into Sussex. I can go back as far as  1776c were my 5 th Gt Grandfather Edward Hodges was living in Hornsey Middlesex. This is were the trail goes cold.

My father has just informed me that he knows for sure that the HODGES originated from Birmingham Warwickshire. can anybody help

Cheers

Mike

[hepburn]

Ive entered "Hodges" in the LDS site for Warwickshire,there were Hodges in there from the 1600s...

[Tricia_2]

I think that we must always bear in mind that what relatives 'know' for sure, may not always be correct ~ or not completely correct.

My Mum's family are from South Wales.

Her grandmother was said to have been a member of the Mansell family of Margam. The family 'knew this'. Yet we have not found any evidence to support it.

My Mum's aunt said that the Hamptons were from Yorkshire. It turns out that a Hamptom married a Thornton, and that the Thorntons were from Yorkshire.

My grandfather said that the Hamptons were from Birmingham The nearest I have found is a Hampton, born about 1813, from 'Worcester'  according to the census.

Family legends can get mixed up.

But Birmingham was like a magnet, so it would not be surprising to find ancestors there, who might have travelled long distances for work.

You are looking for someone in Birmingham prior to 1776. Birmingham was relatively small then.

Here is the first map of Birmingham ~ 1731 (can be enlarged):
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/printer/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=109866&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=14555

There are other maps, too, from later in the century, showing speedy growth, but Birmingham, then, only really covered the area which would now be considered the city centre and surroundings.

[Tricia_2]

Some 18th century Birmingam Hodges from IGI:
SARAH HODGES   ~ Female Christening: 25 JUL 1755 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick,
SARAH HODGES - Female Christening: 25 JUL 1769 Saint Martin, Birmingham
ANNE HODGES - Female Christening: 15 FEB 1725 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick
ANNE HODGES - Female Christening: 11 JAN 1754 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick
HANNAH HODGES - Female Christening: 16 JAN 1756 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick
ANN HODGES - Female Christening: 01 JAN 1793 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick
HANNAH HODGES - Female Christening: 21 MAY 1799 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick,
HUMPHRY HODGES - Male Birth: 13 NOV 1659 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick
JOSEPH HODGES - Male Christening: 11 FEB 1794 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick
ROBERT HODGES - Male Christening: 28 MAY 1765 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick

[Tricia_2]

More from the IGI:

17th & 18th century B'ham Hodges:

ABRAHAM HODGES - Male Birth: 16 JAN 1662 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick
JONATHAN HODGES - Male Christening: 20 OCT 1667 Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick
SAMUEL HODGES - Male Christening: 27 MAY 1758 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick
SAMUEL HODGES - Male Christening: 31 MAR 1796 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick
Ann Hodge - Female Birth: About 1779 Of, Birmingham, Warwick
RICHARD HODGES - Male Christening: 05 NOV 1795 Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick

And places now part of B'ham:

ISABEL HODG - Female Christening: 10 MAR 1639 Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwick
MARIE HOGGES - Female Christening: 22 MAR 1618 Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwick
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JOHN HODGES - Male Christening: 06 JAN 1700 Kings Norton, Warwick
CORNELIUS HODGES - Male Christening: 17 JAN 1698 Kings Norton, Warwick
WILLIAM HODGES - Male Christening: 28 NOV 1695 Kings Norton, Warwick
MARY HODGES - Female Christening: 28 FEB 1696 Kings Norton, Warwick
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John Hodges - Male Birth: About 1796 Handworth, , Warwick
John Hodges - Male Birth: 1796 Handsworth, Warwick
156. John Hodges - Male Birth: 1796 Handsworth, Warwick

And Tamworth ~ not that far away??? though Staffs, not Warwicks!
ANN HODGE - Female Christening: 02 JUL 1792 Cole Hill Presbyterian, Tamworth, Warwick,

Richard Hodges - Male Birth: 1765 Tameth, Warwick

[146ESR]

Hi Trish

Thank you very much for your hard work much appericated the info you have given here is  very interesting

Cheers
Mike

[Tricia_2]

Hope it helps! 

[Kirsty Evans]

Hi,

I know this is an old thread but if you are still interested my great great grandfather was from Birmingham and his is a Hodges. 2 generations of my Hodges family were in Birmingham and prior to this came from Ludlow and Herefordshire.

Kirsty