Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

Caroline Hancock

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• • Grandmother of Ernest Hemingway — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Alexander Hancock 
  • Mother:
  • Caroline Sydes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Sep 1843 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bristol, England 
  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Oct 1843 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. James, Bristol, Glouchestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 9 Sep 1895 
  • Death Location:
  • Oak Park, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ernest Miller Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Nov 1865 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Iowa 
  • Child:

  Grace H. Hall (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources give Caroline Hall's death as 10 SEP 1895, but her obituary on 13 SEP 1895 states that she died “last Monday” which was 09 SEP 1895.

• Sources for Caroline Hancock

  • ¹ England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1980, Baptism for Caroline Hancock.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1870, Chicago Ward 14, p. 215, Image 215 of 228.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1880, Chicago, E.D. 128, p. 21, Image 21 of 52.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, IA, Dubuque County, 1860, New Wine, p. 8, Image 8 of 41.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/16/2014).
  • ⁶ Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, Marriage record for Earnest Hall and Caroline Hancock.
  • ⁷ Iowa, U.S., State Census Collection, 1836-1925, 1856, Dubuque, New Wine, Image 11 of 26.
  • ⁸ Oak Park Leaves, 13 MAY 1905, Obituary for spouse Ernest Hall, p. 4.
  • ⁹ Oak Park Vindicator, 13 SEP 1895, Obituary for Caroline Hall, p. 4.
  • ¹⁰ Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966, Death certificate for daughter Grace H. Hemingway.
  • ¹¹ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 283, 504-508.