On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:46:43 +0100 Colin Harris wrote: > Hello all > > Having spent sometime trying to sort out the HISCOCK/HITCHCOCK/HEDGECOCK > families, one of the loose ends I was left with was William HITCHCOCK who > married Charlotte SMITH at St Mary's, Kingsclere 19th October 1840. > > Could SKS please provide the full register entry for this marriage please I have 19 October 1840 at St. Mary. register entry 67. Witnesses: William Smith & Sylvia Piper. William's father also William, Charlotte's was George. Both of Exelsford I have William Smith, married Sylvia Piper on 27 Feb 1841 also at St. Mary and am assuming Charlotte & William were siblings. > They had three children baptised at St Mary's > > John 1838 > George 1841 > Sarah 1843 Thanks for those as I didn't have them listed. > and a fourth Dorcas who I believe was baptised at St Paul's, Woodlands in > 1846. Bapt. St. Paul on 1 Nov 1846, entry no. 33. She married Josiah (or Joseph) Rabbitts (later Roberts) in 1864and had lots of kids. > These baptisms all seem to use the name HEDGECOCK. I am recording them all as Hiscock as the names seem interchangable in the registers. > The 1851 census index indicates that John, George, Sarah and Dorcas > (appears as Darkness!) are all in the household of Charles HEDGECOCK and > his wife Jane (nee APPLEFORD), Charles was born abt 1810 in Tadley. > > I also have a note of two births from the IGI to a William and Ann > HISCOCK/HEDGECOCK an Ann HEDGECOCK 7th March 1833 and a John HISCOCK 19th > August 1835, both give Kingsclere as birthplace but I don't have baptism > dates to confirm the validity of these two. I don't have these two children recorded but the Ann Hiscock with father William who married Charles Waite could be her. Checking the register gives Ann born 7 Mar, bapt 16th June 1833 to William & Ann Hedgecock of Ecchinswell (entry 214). John born 19 Aug bapt. 13 Mar 1836to William & Ann Hiscock of Ecchinswell (entry 519) > My suspicions are: > > 1) That the William married to Ann later married Charlotte SMITH, perhaps > following the death of Ann possibly in childbirth. William was recorded as a Bachelor at marriage to Charlotte > > 2) William died between 1848 and 1851, and Charlotte was working away when > the census was taken, given the number of variations on this surname she > could well be in Kingsclere in 1851 but is just not identifiable. > 3) Charles HEDGECOCK was William's brother, and took in Charlotte and the > children following the death of William. Charles was the son of Jeremiah > and Sarah HISCOCK/HEDGECOCK baptised at Tadley 8th July 1810. > > If anyone can throw any light on this complicated family I would be most > grateful. I'll do some more checking later, this is a family I'd like to get sorted as well since one of my Mother's cousins married John James Hiscock at Ecchinswell about 1824 and Hiscocks also married into the Foster & Fisher families -- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software