This could be from the same London Quaker William Hancock that came to Philadelphia in the very early 1700s (1715-1725) WILLIAM HANCOCHE Male Birth: Christening: 20 AUG 1679 Saint Lawrence Poultney, London, London, England Marriage March 12, 1701 William Hancocke of St. Laurence Poundney Parish Bachelor and Anne Day of the same Parish, Singlewoman were marred with License from Henry L. BP. of London March 12th.1701 By R.(?) M (?) Recter (?) Died about 1751 in Pennsylvania. This William's father was also a William. Harry Pontius -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [HANCOCK-L] ENGLISH RECORDS I found these records on Ancestry.com. Are they ancestors of our William that came to Jamestown????????? London: - Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem, City of London, 1485-1561 Burials. Inquisitions of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth. Richard Tate, knight. County: London Country: England Richard Tate, knight, was seised of all those messuages late in the tenure of Henry Clytherowe, situate in the parish of the Blessed Mary Wulchurche, formerly belonging to the late Monastery or House of the Carthusians near the City of London now dissolved, 1 messuage with 1 garden adjoining late in the tenure of Jeronimus Shelton, gent., lying in the parish of St. Ellen, within the close of the late Priory of St. Helen within the City of London, now dissolved and formerly belonging to the same; 2 messuages late in the tenure of Christopher Jane situate in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Old "Piscaria" called Old Fishe strete, to the late Priory of St. Elen formerly belonging; the messuage called the Sonne alias the Salutacion; the messuage and tenement thereto adjoining late in the tenure of John Alen and Agnes his wife, situate in the parish of St. Olave next London Bridge, to the said late Priory sometime belonging; all that parcel of land called a timberyard and 2 houses called a storehouse and a working house to the said land adjoining, late in the tenure of John Walker, situate in the parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate sometime belonging to the late Monastery of the Minoresses without Aldgate, now dissolved; all that messuage and tenement late in the tenure of Henry Cletherowe, the messuage late in the tenure of Thomas Hancocke and now in the occupation of Thomas Smyth, being in the street of Cornhill, to wit, within the parish of St. Mary Wolchurche to the said late Monastery or House of the Carthusians lately belonging; 1 garden with a messuage and tenement therein built late in the tenure of Stephen Pecock, citizen and Alderman of London, and now in the occupation of William Tayllor, citizen and haberdasher of London, situate next to the water of the Thames, to wit, within the walls and precincts of the late Priory of the Black Preaching Friars of London, and to the same formerly belonging, all that garden with the messuage and tenement built therein late in the tenure of Christopher Harbottell situate next the water of the Thames, to wit, within the walls of the said late Priory of the Black Preaching Friars; a messuage and tenement called the platter and all the shops, cellars and buildings thereto belonging, late in the tenure of William Hebbe, situate in Soperlane, to wit, within the parish of St. Pancras in Westchepe to the late Monastery of Hallywell, co. Middlesex belonging; 1 messuage and tenement in the tenure of Richard Batall lying in Soperlane aforesaid, to the said late Monastery of Hallywell belonging; 1 large messuage and tenement lately demised to the Wardens of the Goldsmiths of London situate in the parish of St. Peter in Westchepe, to the said late Monastery of Haliwell sometime belonging, being parcel of the possessions thereof; all which premises the said Richard Tate lately had to himself and his heirs of the grant of King Henry 8th, as by his Letters Patent dated 25 Mar [1543] , in the 34th year of his reign, more fully appears. London: - Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem, City of London, 1485-1561 Burials. Inquisitions of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth. Sir William Hollys, knight. County: London Country: England Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 10 Feb [1543] , 34 Henry 8th, before William Cotys, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of William Hollys, knight, by the oath of Richard Aloffe (?), Richard Madox, Thomas Hancock, William Botsam (?), Robert..., Richard..., John Sampson, William Bulle, John Ramsey, Robert Reason, Thomas Jorden, William..., Christopher Nicholson, John Horsepole, Francis Overton, John Chirch, ... Harbotell (?), and John Drax, who say that 1548 Cheshire: Chester - Freemen of the City of Chester, 1392-1700 Marton Marriages. Addenda Et Corrigenda. The Rolls of the Freemen of the City of Chester. 1548-9 [2-3 E. 6.] Fulke Dutton, Mayor. County: Cheshire Country: England 1548-9 Thomas Hancock, baker. 1550 THOMAS HANCOCK born May 1, 1550 in England (married Agnes Nikolls) Cheshire: Bromborough- Talbot Deeds, 1200-1682 p 245 Indentures made 23 May 14 & 49 James 1st, between John Houghe, Richard shurlock, Thomas Hanock, John Hancock ______________________________