Above: Roy's great grandchildren: Ballad and Art Woodley-Hanan, Raumati South beach
Amanda Hanan
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About this website
This website and migration story was done as an assignment for my final university paper towards my B.A. The brief was to develop a digital exhibition on migration and identity of your family background. I chose to base my assignment around Roy Hanan's book because I always thought his theories of descending from one of the 12 tribes of Israel a fascinating theory. Taking the name "Migration at Large" for this digital exhibition links with my grandfather Roy's book and of course to the old TV series and books "Doctor at Large" which would be about not taking it all too seriously. This migration story is a representation of Roy's telling of his journey and is not meant to prove or disprove his theories. Where there are facts I have added them, where there are none I have showed the possibility that Roy's could be right.
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Email Amanda mailto:[email protected]
Memories of Pop Hanan
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He wasn't a hands on grandfather, but I always got the impression he was very interested in us. He was a very confident man and like to take charge.
He believed in good manners and I can remember aged about nine, Roy trying to convince my brothers aged seven and five they should do the gentlemanly thing and carry my school case for me. I thought this was a great idea but neither of then would have a bar of it.
Every year for Christmas he would send my father a cigar. One of those big flash kinds with instructions to smoke at his funeral should he die that year. Every Christmas my father smoked it on Christmas day! He wanted us to call him great Pop. So if we saw him we should say "Hail oh great Pop"!
Roy was incredibly proud to be a Hanan. We all felt that sense of pride in the name too, as if we all belonged to something bigger. Of course we all knew about our famous Uncle Ralph One night playing trivial pursuit the family was bursting with pride when we came across a question on "who was the minister responsible for abolishing the death penalty in New Zealand?"
He believed in good manners and I can remember aged about nine, Roy trying to convince my brothers aged seven and five they should do the gentlemanly thing and carry my school case for me. I thought this was a great idea but neither of then would have a bar of it.
Every year for Christmas he would send my father a cigar. One of those big flash kinds with instructions to smoke at his funeral should he die that year. Every Christmas my father smoked it on Christmas day! He wanted us to call him great Pop. So if we saw him we should say "Hail oh great Pop"!
Roy was incredibly proud to be a Hanan. We all felt that sense of pride in the name too, as if we all belonged to something bigger. Of course we all knew about our famous Uncle Ralph One night playing trivial pursuit the family was bursting with pride when we came across a question on "who was the minister responsible for abolishing the death penalty in New Zealand?"
The Hanan Journey by Elizabeth Hanan
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When I started writing this digital exhibition, I had no idea that this book "The Hanan Journey" even existed. And yet I am featured along with my parents (Jan and Geoff Hanan and my brothers Nigel and Justin) on page 172-173. After hours spent on shipping records and newspapers, my cousin Jane Hanan who lives in Cairns told me about the book. "The Hanan Journey" written by Dame Elizabeth Hanan in 2009. The book is approx 300 pages and follows the journey of the Hanan family from Castlematyr in Ireland with the birth of Daniel Hanan in 1785 to present day and even includes my children.
Dame Elizabeth was awarded the Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2003 for her contribution to science communication, she is also a longstanding member of the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women (Otago) and was awarded her Damehood in 1998 for her services to the community.
I had to go old school move away from my computer and take a trip to the National Library and sit in the reading room to look at her fantastic book. I hope someone who loves me buys it for me for Christmas!
Dame Elizabeth was awarded the Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2003 for her contribution to science communication, she is also a longstanding member of the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women (Otago) and was awarded her Damehood in 1998 for her services to the community.
I had to go old school move away from my computer and take a trip to the National Library and sit in the reading room to look at her fantastic book. I hope someone who loves me buys it for me for Christmas!