The Dictionary of Surnames gives HENDY as an English (mainly West Country) nickname for a pleasant and affable person - from the Middle English for courteous, kind, gentle.
The IGI has HENDY baptisms and marriages in Thornbury back to 1676 but I haven't established a connection to them with any certainty yet.
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| William HENDY was my father's mother's father's father.
He was born about 1800. He married Isabella WITHER 31st October 1835 in St James' Church, Bristol. He lived in Morton, Thornbury, Gloucestershire in 1840. He was living in Lower Morton in 1841. He died, of bronchitis, 11th May 1874 at Charfield, Gloucestershire. Parents
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| William HENDY |
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| William HENDY was my father's mother's father.
He was born 5 April 1840 in Morton, Thornbury, Gloucestershire. He was living in Lower Morton in 1841. He married Eliza SHEPSTONE 4 September 1874 at the Clifton Register Ofice. Witnesses were Elizabeth Shepstone and Charles Bridgeman. He lived at 9 Jenkins Buildings, Lower Easton, St George in September 1874. He lived at 7 Baptist Street in May 1880. He was lodging at 23 Phippen Street, St Mary Redcliffe in 1881. He lived at 5 Lovell Street, Sts Philip and Jacob April 1884 and August 1888. He lived at 6 Sand Bed Road, St Werbergs in 1901. He died 25th September 1908, of vesical carcinoma, at 292 Newfoundland Road. Parents
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| Eliza HENDY |
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| Eliza HENDY was my father's mother's sister.
She was born about 1861 according to the 1881 census (prior to parents' marriage) (but I can't find a birth certificate). She lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. Parents
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| William S HENDY |
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| William S HENDY was my father's mother's brother.
He was born about 1867 according to the census (prior to parents' marriage) (but I can't find a birth certificate). He lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. Parents
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| Isabella HENDY |
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| Isabella HENDY was my father's mother's sister.
She was born 9th February 1872 according to the IGI (prior to parents' marriage) She lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. Parents
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| Charles Edward HENDY |
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| Charles Edward HENDY was my father's mother's brother.
He was born 1 November 1874 at 9 Jenkins Buildings, Lower Easton. He lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. Parents
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| Ada HENDY |
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| Ada HENDY was my father's mother's sister.
She was born ond 1876. She lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. My mum only knows her as Anne and, according to her - she married an Irish catholic, and went to live in Bath ("where it was warmer"). Parents
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| Gertrude Alice HENDY |
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| Gertrude Alice HENDY was my father's mother's sister.
She was born at 7 Baptist Street, on 22 May 1880. She lived at 193 Pennywell Road in 1881. She signed as Alice Hendy on marriage cert of sister Annie in 1905, but called herself Gertrude Alice Maud Hendy from 1907. She married Henry Lawrence WILLS 25 December 1907 at St Philip and Jacob church. Henry Lawrence WILLS was an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy, and a friend of my grandfather's (Albert Edward KNAGGS) who, with his wife Annie, were witnesses. He was killed in the first world war. I have two of his medals. His father was John Thomas WIILS, a boot and shoe maker.They were at 25 New Bread Street in 1907. She died jfm 1943 aged 62. Parents
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| Sarah Annie HENDY |
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| Sarah Annie HENDY was my father's mother.
She was born 30 April 1884 at 5 Lovell Street. She lived at 1 Byron Place, Dove Lane in December 1905 She married Albert Edward KNAGGS at St Clements church on 23 December 1905. Witnesses were George Jennings Hulin and Alice HENDY. Most people knew her as Annie, which is how she is named on her Marriage Certificate. She died, age 67, 27th April 1952, of a cerebral haemorrhage, at 11 Canton Street. Parents
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| Nelly Beatrice HENDY |
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| Nelly Beatrice HENDY was my father's mother's sister.
She was born 1 August 1888 at 5 Lovell Street. She married Henry John PAYNE, a steel worker of 58 Avondale Road, Redfield, at Bristol register office, by licence, the 21st of April 1919. According to mum - they moved to Canada, then she came back and left her husband there. I remember her living at 11 Canton street in the 1950s. She died in 1962. Parents
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