Individual Notes

Note for: John Pocklington, ABT 1776 - 10 DEC 1860 Index

Christening:
     Date:   21 JAN 1776
     Place:   Kinoulton

Burial:
     Date:   10 JAN 1861
     Place:   Hallaton, Leic.

Individual Note:

1851 Census
Parish or Township, Hallaton, Leic
Ref HO 107/2093
High Street,
John Pocklington - Head - Married - Aged 75 years - Farmer of 114 Acres, labourers 2, born, Kinoulton, Notts
Mary Pocklington - Wife - Married - Aged 51 years - born Leicester, Hallaton
+ 1 female servant

1841 Census
HO107/720/12
City - London
Parish - St. Augustines, London
Old Change St, Augustines, Watling Street, London
John Pocklington - Salesman - aged 65 years - not born in the County
R.S. Pocklington - Butcher - aged 32 years - born in the County
Charles Pocklington - Butcher - aged 28 years - born in the County
Emma Hill - aged 17 years - …?… - born in the County
Charles Johnson - aged 22 years - Male Servant - born in the County
George Cox - aged 21 years - Male Servant - not born in the County
Alfred Boorman - aged 15 years - Male Servant - born in the County
Frederick Maddox - aged 16 years - Male Servant - born in the County
Susan Bartlett - aged 16 years - Female Servant - born in the County
Mary Blyth - aged 35 years - Female Servant - not born in the County
(from enumerators sheet)

(NB - Im' sure Robert's initials were recorded incorrectly and should read R.T.)
(DFK - Note - taking into account other data, it points to Robert and Charles being brothers and residing
with their Uncle John)

Piggot's Directory of London 1839 =
Pocklington & Lacy - Bankers - 60 West Smithfield
John Pocklington - Cattle Salesman, 60 West Smithfield
(NB it also lists -
Pocklington, Frackleton & Jury - Meat Salesman, 8 Newgate Market
William Pocklington - Butcher, 31 Old Change, City
Susanna Pocklington - Marine Store Dealer, 40 Charles Street, St. Georges East)

Post Office Directory of London 1846 =
Pocklington & Lacy - Bankers & Agents to Cattle Salesman, 60 West Smithfield
John Pocklington - Cattle Salesman, 60 West Smithfield
(NB it also lists -
Pocklington, Frackleton & Jury, Meat Salesman, 8 Newgate Market
Joseph Pain Pocklington - Meat Salesman, 19 Newgate Street
Joseph Pain Pocklington - Meat Salesman, 6 Rose Street, Newgate Street
Robert Thomas Pocklington - Butcher, 31 Old Change, City )

Pigot & Co's National Commercial Directory for 1828/29 =
Pocklington & Lacy, Bankers, 60 West Smithfield, London

Death Reg Ref - Quarter 1 - 1861 - 7a 173 Uppingham (Hallaton)

Individual Notes

Note for: Rodger Pocklington, 1774 - 13 DEC 1858 Index

Christening:
     Date:   17 JAN 1774
     Place:   Kinoulton, Notts, Eng

Burial:
     Date:   18 DEC 1858
     Place:   St. Marys Church, Sutterton, Lincs.

Individual Note:

Noted as partially blind on 1851 census at age 76, and that there were three servants in the household. Freeholder and farmer of 114 acres. Living with him at time were his daughter, Ann (Pocklington) Johnson, age 38, and her two children, Mary Ann, age 11, and James, age 8, (she lived with her father after leaving her husband, Charles Johnson) and a Thoroton Pocklington, a farmer's son, age 17, born at Woodboro', Nottinghamshire (GB - I think this was Roger's son's (John's) boy - so would be Roger's grandson. The age is right.)

Roger Pocklington, late of Sutterton, Lin, Grazier.
Died 13th December 1858
Proved - Lincoln 2nd April 1859
Oath of Samuel and Joseph Pocklington, Farmers and sons
Effects under Ł20

Individual Notes

Note for: John R C Pocklington, 25 MAR 1910 - 16 MAR 1980 Index

Burial:
     Date:   MAR 1980
     Place:   Cremated, Weston Super Mere, Somerset.

Individual Note:

John was called John by his parents but Bob by his wife and friends.
Bob worked in communications as an Inspector at the then GPO.
His interests were horticulture and travel. He also liked a good book. ( fiction)
Come the WW2 he enlisted into the RAF and served in the UK, Italy and with the 8th Army in North Africa

Full name is John Robert Charles Pocklington
Birth Reg Ref - Devonport 5b 304 - Quarter 2 1910

Marriage Reg Ref - 1938 - Quarter 2 - Sevenoaks 2a 2883

Death Reg Ref - 1980 - Quarter 1 - Weston 22 1434

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert Pocklington, 1778 - 16 JAN 1861 Index

Christening:
     Date:   2 MAR 1778
     Place:   Kinoulton, Notts.

Individual Note:

1851 Census
HO107/1501
Parish or Township - Islington
City or Borough - Finsbury
7, York Place, Islington, London
Robert Pocklington - Head - Married - Aged 73 years - Clerk to Newgate Market - born, Nottingham
Mary Pocklington - Wife - Married - Aged 67 years - born, Berkshire
Annie Pocklington - Daug - Unwed - Aged 40 years - born, London
Fredrick Pocklington - Grandson - Aged 10 years - born, City
Eliza Jones - Servant - Unwed - aged 15 years - Servant - born, City
Ann Players - Servant - Unwed - aged 37 years - born, Chelmsford
(from enumerators sheet)

Reference - a Christening of one of their children the Vicar has written alongside the address of Old Change, corner of Distaff Lane, in the Parish Register - this puts the family in the EC4 area of 20th/21st century London.

Admin/Probate/Wills Index =
Robert Pocklington
Will 1861
Formerly of Old Change, City of London
Butcher of Middlesex
Died 16th January 1861 at 331 City Road, London
Proved - to Mary Pocklington of City Road, London.
Effects under Ł800

Individual Notes

Note for: Mille Pocklington, 1780 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   15 MAR 1780
     Place:   Kinoulton, Notts, Eng

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Pocklington, 1782 - 27 SEP 1856 Index

Christening:
     Date:   14 JUL 1782
     Place:   Kinoulton, Notts, Eng

Burial:
     Date:   3 OCT 1856
     Place:   All Saints Churchyard, Vange, Essex

Individual Note:
     He came from Kinoulton in Nottinghamshire to Vange in Essex in 1827. ( He was in his mid years)
He farmed at Vange Hall and at Horndon-on-the-Hill in Essex up to his death in 1856.
He was a Church Warden, Overseer and Surveyor of the Highways.
In 1827 Thomas agreed to take one Joseph Marsh at 2/6p per week and clothe him.
Vange Hall was one of the principle Seats of Essex.
A Farm Account Book detailing expenses, animal cures, parish accounts, hirings and even a ballad was kept by the family from circa 1773 to 1852. This Farm Account Book is part of the Archives of the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford. I must add the old Farm Account Book has within its pages a bit of romance in the form of an entry by Thomas' father Thoroton when he says in the list of hirings " the lovely Ann Bonsor" , who he wed a few years later.
The local All Saints Church, now sadly derelict, is home to the family burial plot .

Permission was granted by the Diocese for Redundant Churches at Chelmsford for Thomas' 3 x Gt. Grandson, Doug King, to remove a rectangular headstone that was found laying among debris and foliage in the vandalised churchyard.

Thomas' Memorial Inscription says:-

" IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS POCKLINGTON
LATE OF VANGE HALL
IN THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
SEPTEMBER THE 27 1856
AGED 74 YEARS
WHO FOR THE CANDOUR OF HIS
MIND AND THE INTEGRITY OF
HIS HEART WAS RESPECTED BY
ALL WHO NEW HIM
    ALSO MARY
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER THE 26 1861
AGED 72 YEARS........."

(... notes from the MIs fiche comments - Rectangular headstone leaning against church wall. Not found in 1999. Large stepped base of a chest tomb with a lid resting upon it. The sides of the tomb are missing, but it is possible that a stone leaning against the church was part of it.)

(My description of it (2006) - Stepped square base with tall 4 sided structure at its centre with a shaped top. The tall structure has broken away leaving only the base and shaped top. One of the sides of the structure had the MIs wording on, which we have in our possession.)

(From the visit in 2006 we noticed a plaque affixed to the church wall advising - that the church has been refurbished and is now used for some services.)

Census 1841 - Vange
HO/107/322/35
Vange Hall, Vange, Essex
Thomas Pocklington - age 55 - Farmer - Not born in the County
Mary Pocklington - age 50 - Not born in the County
+ 3 Servants

Census 1851 - Billericay Registration Dist -
HO/107/1774 Folio 478
Vange Hall, Vange, Essex.
Thomas Pocklington - Head - Married - aged 68 years - Farmer, 450 acres, employing 2 men and 10 labourers - born Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire
Mary Pocklington - Wife - Married - aged 60 years - born, Colston Basset, Nottinghamshire.
+ 1 Shepherd and 2 House servants

(Re: the estate of Vange, Essex. From the Essex Visitations of 1634 - (Pedigree Smith No: 2) Charles Smith, of Barking, Essex, Esq. who died 1761 (he being a member of the younger branch of the Dorsetshire family of that name) acquired the estate by his marriage to daughter and co-heir of Captain Marriner. (Vange therefore being held by the Mariner family, followed by the Smith family - to be purchased at some stage by Joseph Pocklington) Thomas came (as said above) in 1827 and his descendants continued until the 1880s........... It is thought that Vange Hall was built in the 1600s, and if this proves to be so, it could well have been built by the Marriner family)

(Re: Essex Record Office bundle Ref D/Dsd/T41 Deeds of Vange Hall - Will of George Colebrook of Woodlands, Lyndhurst, Southampton, eldest son and heir of Sir George Colebrook, dated 29th February 1808 and proved 20th May 1809 (presumably of Vange Hall) puts the Colebrook family there around that time or owners of)

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary White, 1789 - 26 OCT 1861 Index

Christening:
     Date:   28 NOV 1789
     Place:   Whatton, Notts

Burial:
     Date:   2 NOV 1861
     Place:   All Saints Churchyard, Vange, Essex

Individual Note:

Mary farms Vange Hall with the help of her son John from the years 1856 to 1861

Will of Mary Pocklington in the parish of Vange in County of Essex, Widow.
Dated 5th October 1861
Witnesses =
A.J. Thorne _ Auctioneer
Glover H. Hilliard - Farmer
Executor = John Pocklington - Son
Proved at London 26th November 1861

1861 Census
Vange Hall Farm, Vange, Essex
Mary Pocklington - Head - Widow - aged 70 years - Farmer, 300 acres - Nottinghamshire
Mary Ann Pocklington - Granddaughter - Unwed - aged 18 years - Farmer's daughter - born, Hadleigh, Essex
+
Joseph Kimble - Serv - Married - aged 26 years - Ag Lab - born, Buckinghamshire
Mary Kimble - Serv - Married - aged 26 years - House Servant - born, Nevendon, Essex
Martha Wright - Serv - Unwed - aged 19 years - …? House - born, Pitsey, Essex
James Deacon - Serv - Unwed - aged 16 years - Plough Boy - born, Downham, Essex.

Surname - Mary's Maiden surname, White - sometimes listed as Whitt, Whit and Witt......
Mary Christened under the surname of Whitt...

Individual Notes

Note for: Thoroton Pocklington, 1811 - 30 OCT 1848 Index

Christening:
     Date:   22 SEP 1811
     Place:   Kinoulton, Notts, Eng

Occupation:
     Place:   Farmer

Burial:
     Date:   6 NOV 1848
     Place:   St. Michaels Church, Fobbing, Essex

Individual Note:

Thoroton came to Essex with his parents in 1827 .
In 1841 Thoroton is farming Hawkbury Bush Farm in Fobbing. By 1848 he listed in a Directory at Hassenbrook Hall, Stanford-le-Hope. His four sons :
Thoroton
Robert
Richard
John
are scholars in Orsett at the Diocesan School.
Thoroton's wife Ann retires to London after his early death.

Census - 1841 - (film badly faded) HO/107/322/10 page 5 (at Orsett) (initially transcribed by a Researcher)
Hawkbury Bush, Fobbing, Essex.
Thoroton Pocklington - age 29 - Farmer - Not born in the County
Ann Pocklington - age 35 - Not born in the County
Robert Thomas Pocklington - age 3 - born in the County
Richard Crawshay Bailey Pocklington - age 2 - born in the County
John William Pocklington - age 3m - born in the County
(NB - adjusted data re Ancestry print of the Census sheet in 2007)

Census 1851 at Orsett, Essex
HO/107/1773 Folio 355
Thoroton and Ann Pocklington's children =
John - age 9 - born Fobbing, Essex
    Richard - age 10 - born Fobbing, Essex
    Robert - age 12 - born Fobbing, Essex
Thoroton - age 14 - born Fobbing, Essex
(NB Scholars at the Diocesan School in Orsett)