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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Additonal Information

This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

HANCOCK, James - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of SEPHTON's Party, together with his sister Mary HANCOCK)

 

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service

 

James son of James HANCOCK, Potter, baptised 1 May 1776 in St.Giles, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire

Mary daughter of James HANCOCK baptised November 27 1787 in St.Giles, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

James HANCOCK, bachelor, married Ann KENNEDY, spinster on 21 February 1808 in St.George the Martyr, Southwark

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Thos. KENNEDY and John ANDERSON.

 

Baptisms in St.Andrew's, Holborn:

Charles James, son of James and Ann HANCOCK, Eyre Street, 19 March 1809

George Frederic, son of James and Ann HANCOCK, Eyre Street, 31 March 1811

Margarett Ann, daughter of James and Ann HANCOCK, Eyre Street, 26 July 1812

James, son of James and Ann HANCOCK, Eyre Street, Cold Bath Fields, 21 August 1814
(Father's occupation: China gilder)

Joseph Ebenezer, son of James and Ann HANCOCK, Islington, china gilder, 19 April 1818 (born 13 June 1816)

Thomas, son of James and Ann HANCOCK, Islington, china gilder, 19 April 1818 (born 7 March 1818)

 

 

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