Person:George Alcock (2)

George Alcock was baptised on 20th August 1815 at Timberland in Lincolnshire, son of a farmer called James Alcock and his wife Mary. George appears in the 1841 census working as an agricultural labourer at Heighington, about eleven miles north of Timberland.

By 1851 George was working as a servant for a farmer at Kirkby la Thorpe, about eleven miles south of Timberland. One of the other servants in the household was Hannah Ward, from the nearby village of Great Hale. Just over five years later George and Hannah were married, on 24th June 1856 at Great Hale. George was described as a cottager at the time of the marriage, and was said to be living at Langton by Spilsby.

After their marriage, George and Hannah settled at Kirkstead, where the village straddled the parish of Kirkstead and a detached part of the parish of Langton (also known as Langton by Horncastle) which also included the small but growing resort of Woodhall Spa. George and Hannah appear to have lived in the part of Kirkstead village which then fell in the parish of Langton. It is possible that this was the Langton that George had been living in at the time of their marriage and a mistake was made on their marriage record - it seems unlikely, albeit not impossible, that he would move from one parish called Langton to another parish called Langton seventeen miles away.

George and Hannah had one son, also called George, born at Kirkstead in the summer of 1857.

About a year later, on 28th August 1858, George died, aged 43. Hannah survived him by over thirty years.

1. ↑ Baptisms register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Timberland. Parish registers, 1660-1964. (Lincoln: Lincolnshire Archives, 1991).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Timberland in the County of Lincoln in the Year one Thousand eight Hundred and fifteen
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   114	August 20th	George son of	James Mary	Alcock	Timberland	Farmer	W. Broadbent

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 624; Book 3; Folio 13; Page 19, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Heighington, Washingborough, Lincolnshire
   Chapman Emerson, male, 25 [1811-16], Farmer, born in county
   Jane Emerson, female, 20 [1816-21], born in county
   Ann Emerson, female, 1 [1839/40], born in county
   George Allcock, male, 25 [1811-16], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Robert Pearson, male, 15 [1821-6], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Elizabeth Spencer, female, 14 [1826/7], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 2101; Folio 173; Page 10, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire
   Thomas Cartwright, head, married, male, 89 [1761/2], Farmer 250 acres 2 labourers, b. Timberland, Lincolnshire
   Jane Taylor, visitor, widow, female, 69 [1781/2], Farmers Widow, b. Timberland, Lincolnshire
   Thomas Taylor, nephew, unmarried, male, 25 [1825/6], Farmer, b. Bucknall, Lincolnshire
   Betsy Wakefield, niece, unmarried, female, 6 [1844/5], Scholar, b. Ewerby, Lincolnshire
   George Alcock, servant, unmarried, male, 35 [1815/16], b. Timberland, Lincolnshire
   Robert Vasey, servant, unmarried, male, 28 [1822/3], b. Heckington, Lincolnshire
   Thomas Asher, servant, unmarried, male, 20 [1830/1], b. Quarrington, Lincolnshire
   John Varlow, servant, unmarried, male, 16 [1834/5], b. Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire
   Saray Hays, servant, unmarried, female, 25 [1825/6], House servant, b. Aunsby, Lincolnshire
   Hannah Ward, servant, unmarried, female, 22 [1828/9], House servant, b. Hale, Lincolnshire

4. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. George ALCOCK, September Quarter 1858, Horncastle Registration District, Volume 7a, page 304, aged 43 [1814/15]

5. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1859
   ALCOCK George.
   Effects under £50.
   28 February. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of George Alcock late of Kirkstead in the Parish of Langton in the County of Lincoln Labourer deceased who died 28 August 1858 at Kirkstead aforesaid were granted at Lincoln to Hannah Alcock of Kirkstead aforesaid Widow the Relict of the said Deceased she having been first sworn.