Hi Janet, Thanks for your reply: I think you're right, and the Thomas HANCOCK from 1783 probably is the one I'm interested in. However, it's his own marriage and children I need to find out more about. Thomas' daughter Mary, who married James HURD, is shown on the 1841 census with a little girl called Mary HANCOCK, aged 5. Now I'm reasonably confident that little Mary is the daughter of my great-great-grandfather William HANCOCK, which suggests that the older Mary who married James HURD and her father Thomas HANCOCK may be related to me; but I need further information about Thomas' family to be sure. Great-great-grandfather William HANCOCK is particularly difficult to trace, as he was born in Ireland; but if he was related to Thomas HANCOCK, then perhaps I don't need to go all the way to Dublin to trace him after all ! If they are related, this would suggest that at some time, Thomas HANCOCK went to Dublin, then came back again, by about 1815. Does anyone know if this sort of travel between the Potteries and Ireland would have been likely in the early 19th century ? Cheers, Rosalind. Also interested in OAKES, COWEN, SMITH, MYATT, in the Potteries. On 28/08/2012 07:09, staffordshire-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:56:29 +0100 > From: "Janet Booth" <janet@boothworld.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [STAFFORDSHIRE] HANCOCKs in Stoke-on-Trent > To: <STAFFORDSHIRE@rootsweb.com> > > > Hello Rosalind, > > FreeREG has a baptism at Burslem (which contains the parish of Longport) in > the church of St John the Baptist of a Thomas HANCOCK on 18 March 1783, > parents John & Mary HANCOCK which may be relevant to you. > > The only baptisms to the couple which appear on FreeREG are those of John on > 14 August 1815 and Thos on 14 September 1817 at St John the Baptist to > Thomas & Hannah HANCOCK of Newport, Potter. However, so far I have been > unable to find a marriage for Thomas & Hannah. > > Janet > > > I'm getting back into genealogy again after a lengthy absence, > and I'm interested in a Thomas HANCOCK, born about 1783, Longport. He > was a pottery warehouseman, and was married to a Hannah, but I don't > have her surname, or details of the marriage. They had at least the > following children; - > > Mary, born approximately 1810, Staffordshire > John, born 1815, Newport > Thomas, born 1817, Newport, d. 1817. > Betsy, born 1823, Longport > > They may also have had a daughter Hannah, born around 1810. > > Thomas' wife Hannah died in the 1820s, and he remarried in 1830 > to a Sophia BROUGH. Mary married John HURD in 1838. > >