Dorothy, daughter of John Butler, Esq., of Great Badminton (Lord of the Manor) in the mid-16th century, by Silvester Gyes, married John Hancock (source - Visitation of Gloucester, 1623). John and Dorothy Hancock are listed in 1560 as owners or tenants in Upton Hawkesbury, with heir Henry Hancock (information thanks to Robert Millard's Portland Papers pages). I assume they were ancestors of Richard Hancock (will, 1651, PCC), of Little Badminton. I'm working on a theory that they were the parents of Silvester, wife of Henry Neale (c.1565-1657), yeoman/gentleman, of Little Badminton and later Sherston Magna, Wilts. Henry's daughter was Dorothy Neale, who married, in 1610 at Hawkesbury, Richard Francklyn. Does anyone know where John Hancock's chief residence was? There is a will from 1597 for a John Hancock, of Berkeley, Gloucester, but I haven't found one in the P.C.C., though I haven't looked at the paper index yet. Do the Hawkesbury Manor Rolls exist? I wonder what sources might exist to prove that Dorothy Butler was the mother of Silvester, wife of Henry Neale, as well as ancestor of the early Hancocks in Hawkesbury, as I believe she probably was. Paul Gifford