This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hocking Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TSj.2ACIB/89.100.102.1 Message Board Post: Dear Angela, There is probably a connection here somewhere, but I don't know what it is. Fred Hocking was born in Cornwall, England, sometime between 1891 and 1905. He died in Michigan in 1978. Fred had two sisters, Clarice and Janie. I do not know his parents names, or when he immigrated to the U.S. Good luck, Steve Aird