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Hancock Name Study

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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Hancock and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.





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Origin on Early Hancocks in England

The earliest Hancocks on record include Thomas Hancoc, Shropshire (1274), Willelmus Hancoke, Warwickshire (1305), William & Thomas Hancok, Nottinghamshire (1330) and in Cornwall, John Hancock (1397) who was Mayor of Lostwithiel. This distribution is reflected some 500 years later in the 1841 UK census when there were 9093 individuals in England and Wales whose surname started with Hanco…… What is interesting about this distribution is it shows a line distribution from Cornwall to Yorkshire. Excluding London with 778 individuals, the greatest numbers were found in Staffordshire (885) in Cornwall (752), Devon (618) and Warwickshire (615). Are these early Hancocks connected with with one common ancestor and why did they spread out in a well defined line?

posted by [Living Hancock]
I together with other Hancock family history researchers put together a regular newsletter, which is sent out by email around every 3 or 4 months with current research including information on wills, and transcripts, interesting stories, queries even blind allies and anything else that might interest Hancock researchers with ancestors from Warwickshire, England.

I would suggest that the newsletter will be primary interest to those with research interests in Hancock, Hancocks, Hancox and other derivatives of the name originating in and around around the villages of Brailes, Butler Marston Combroke, Ettington, Kineton, Oxhill, Pillerton Hersey, Pillerton Priors, Wellesboune including Walton in South Warwickshire and other areas such as Birmingham, Stratford upon Avon, Tredington now in Worcestershire and villages over the border into Oxfordshire. We do however include stories and anecdotes of other Hancocks worldwide. If you wish to receive a copy of this newsletter and / or contribute please let me know. . It would be sent by email, free of charge.

posted by [Living Hancock]
Hi Roger, I am working on my husband’s family tree! I believe they are from Cornwall or Devon. William Hancock of the Second Virginia Company appears to be his first Ancestor to venture to the colonies ( Berkeley Hundred and Jamestown. As it goes he died there in 1622 as a result of the uprising. of the native peoples. Simon then is assumed to be next to end up near the East Lynnhaven River. Simon may have also served as a vesteryman for the East Lynnhaven Chapel built on his land. I have a problem finding any kind of ship manifest for William on the Margaret of Bristol. Nothing in the brothers records so far. Arbil Dale Hancock in his Hancock Family of England and American suggests that perhaps Willliam if true his being a shipwright may have set out will the Margaret but not on it perhaps using one of his own ships traveling in a group.. I would really like to get the missing bits connected and am hoping you are still publishing your Hancock e- newsletter and if so I would be very appreciative if you could put me on your list. My husband and our sons are very interested in historical Britain and members of the Sons of American Revolution, also the Sons and Daughters of the Colonists. My daughter is DAR and the Colonist groups. As we are descendants of the Georgia Wiregrass and Florida CattleMen Pioneers we come from some very prolific and innovative British ancestry. All research that we can properly verify will go into an updated “Hancock Family Pioneers” from our days of risk that that took us across to be part of the first British settlements in the new world, everything between down to the last of the Cracker Cowboys with their bags of Spanish doubloons received by selling back to the Spanish their own cattle. I have a tremendous amount of research verified by documents, archeology digs etc. cant complete the updated history of our family without learning and researching the Hancock’s and associated families of our British ancestors. So anything we can share on our families on both sides of the pond would be absolutely awesome. My email is kennedyhancock@ gmail.com. Thank you am looking forward to newsletters and would like to donate and pay for any back issues available. My kit number at Hancock DNA FTDNA is 85567 group 4 using Big Y. Hope to hear from you soon!. Thank you again for any help, suggestions, stories and documents we can share in our most finest of Quests.
posted by Helen (Bruner) Hancock