Individual Notes
Note for: John Pocklington, 1813 - 9 JUL 1877
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Christening: Date: 28 SEP 1813
Place: Kinoulton, Notts, Eng
Burial: Date: 13 JUL 1877
Place: All Saints Churchyard, Vange, Essex
Individual Note: John came with his parents to Essex in 1827. He was a tennant farmer in the years 1833 to 1847.
He farmed in the village of Hadleigh. He was the farmer at Blossoms Farm living there and also renting another farm for the land, called Common Hall Farm.
By 1851 he is farming Vange Wharf Farm and continues to do so untill 18
( re census information)
In 1855 John is listed in a Directory as a Farmer and Coal Merchant.
Likewise in a Directory of 1846 John is listed as Farmer and Salesman.
1871 sees John farming Vange Hall .
His four children were educated at home by a Governess.
Will of John Pocklington in the parish of Vange in the County of Essex
(NB late of the Borough of Kingston upon Hull)
Dated 23rd March 1871
Witnesses =
Solicitor - Charles C. Lewis
Solicitor's Clerk - Geo. Ingate
Codicil dated 23rd March 1871 ( John Pocklington now residing in Wickford, Essex)
Witnesses =
Solicitor - Charles C. Lewis
Solicitor's Clerk - George Davey
Proved at London with Codicil 30th August 1877
Executor = Charles Count Pocklington (surviving Exor) - Son
(1877 - John Pocklington - Will with Codicil
Effects under £1,500
Proved 30th August 1877
Late of Vange Hall, Co. Essex,
Parish of Vange, Farmer
Died 9th July 1877 at Wickford, Co. Essex
Proved at the Principal Registry by
Charles Count Pocklington of Wickford, Co. Essex, Farmer
Son and surviving Exect.)
Census 1841 - Hadleigh, Essex
Blossoms Farm, Hadleigh, Essex
John Pocklington - age 27 - Farmer - Not born Essex
Eliza - age 24 - born Essex
Census 1851 - Billericay Registration Dist.
HO/107/1774 Folio 481 Vange
Parish - Vange, Essex.
Vange Wharf Farm, Vange, Essex
John Pocklington - Head - Married - age 37 years - Farmer, 150 acres, employing 7 men -born Nottinghamshire
Eliza H Pocklington - Wife - Married - age 34 years - Born Rayleigh, Essex
Eliza Pocklington - Daug - age 9 years - Scholar at home - born, Hadleigh, Essex
Mary Ann Pocklington - Daug - age 7 years - Scholar at home - born Hadleigh, Essex
Harriet J Pocklington - Daug - age 6 years - Scholar at home - born Hadleigh, Essex
Charles Pocklington - Son - age 3 years - born Hadleigh, Essex
Emily A. Wool - Visitor - Unwed - aged 21 years - Independent - born, Marylebone.
Emma W. Kackrill - Governess - Unwed - aged 19 years - Governess - born, Burnham, Essex.
Elizabeth Algor - Servant - Unwed - aged 21 years - House Servant - born ? Braxted (could be Thaxted) Essex
(from enumerators sheet)
Census 1861 Billericay Registration Dist.
RG9/1077 Vange
Vange Wharf Farm, Vange, Essex.
John Pocklington - Head - Married - age 47 - Farmer, 300 acres - born Nottinghamshire
Eliza H Pocklington - Wife - Married - age 44 - born Rayleigh, Essex
Eliza Pocklington - Daug - Unwed - age 19 - born Hadleigh, Essex
Harriet Pocklington - Daug - Unwed - age 16 - born Hadleigh, Essex
Charles Pocklington - Son - age 13 years - Scholar - born Hadleigh, Essex
+ 1 Visitor and 1 General servant
Census 1871 - Billericay Registration Dist.
RG/10 1659
Vange Hall, Vange, Essex
John Pocklington - Head - Married - age 57 years - Farmer, 633 acres, employing 12 Labs - born Kinoulton, Notts
Eliza Harvey Pocklington - Wife - Married - age 54 years - born Rayleigh, Essex
Mary Ann Pocklington - Daug - Unwed - age 28 years - born Hadleigh, Essex
Harriet Jane Pocklington - Daug - Unwed - age 26 years - born Hadleigh, Essex
Charles Count Pocklington - Son - Unwed - age 23 years - born Hadleigh, Essex
+ 1 Servant
John's Memorial Inscription
(a Decorative top headstone)
In affectionate remembrance
of Eliza Harvey,
wife of John Pocklington
of Vange Hall,
who died January 14 1875
aged 58 years,
Her end was peace.
And also of the above John Pocklington,
who died at Wickford July 9th 1877,
aged 63 years.
Charles Count Pocklington
died (...remainder obliterated)
Farmed Vange Wharf Farm re census from 1851 until 1872 - The farm was situated near Vange Hall on the other side of the railway line.
Individual Notes
Note for: Thomas Pocklington, 1819 - 6 NOV 1821
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Christening: Date: 29 JUL 1819
Place: Kinoulton, Notts, Eng
Burial: Date: 6 NOV 1821
Place: St. Mary, Newark, Notts
Individual Note:
Thomas was living in Kinoulton even though buried in Newark.
NBI V2 Says Burial in St. Lukes in Kinoulton, Notts
Individual Notes
Note for: Elizabeth Pocklington, 1784 - UNKNOWN
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Christening: Date: 6 JUN 1784
Place: Kinoulton, Notts, Eng
Individual Notes
Note for: Sarah Pocklington, 1786 - UNKNOWN
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Christening: Date: 14 MAY 1786
Place: Kinoulton, Notts.
Individual Notes
Note for: Robert Thomas Pocklington, 12 APR 1838 - UNKNOWN
Index
Individual Note:
1851 Census (basic info)
HO/107/1773/355
Diocesan School in Orsett, Essex.
John William Rumsey - Head - Married - aged 37 years - School Master in Deacons Orders - born, Chesham, Berks.
Ann Emily Rumsey - Wife - Married - aged 33 years - born, Eltham, Kent.
Ann Emily P. Rumsey - Daug - aged 7 years - born, Norwell, Notts.
Fredek R. Rumsey - Son - aged 5 years - born, Orsett, Essex.
Catherine M. Rumsey - Daug - aged 3 years - born, Orsett, Essex.
John Wm. Rumsey - Son - aged 2 years - born, Orsett, Essex.
Frances E Rumsey - Daug - aged 3 months - born, Orsett, Essex.
Henry L. Rumsey - Nephew - aged 12 years - Scholar - born, Gloucestershire.
Robert F. Rumsey - Nephew - aged 7 years - Scholar - born, Gloucestershire
James Jennings - Teacher - Unwed - aged 18 years - Assistant Teacher - born, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Jane Banks - Servant - aged 40 years - Cook - born, …?…
Sarah Kempster -Servant - Unwed - aged 29 years - Nurse - born, …?…, Essex.
Ann Wood - Servant - Unwed - aged 22 years - House Maid - born, High Ongar, Essex.
Ellen Rook - Servant - Unwed - aged 21 years - Laundress - born, Stifford, Essex.
Charles Bradd - Servant - Unwed - aged 21 years - General Servant - born, Orsett, Essex
Pupils aged between the age of 7 and 16 years =
Includes Benjamin and James Moss, aged 12 and 10 years
and Pocklington brothers, Thoroton, Robert, Richard and John, aged 14, 12, 10 and 9 years, Scholar, all born Fobbing, Essex.
(from enumerators sheets and transcript)
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 Willm Pocklington - age 3m - born in the County
(up-dated Census data re Ancestry's sheet in 2007)
1861 Census
RG 9/1635
Downland Cottage, Warnbrook, Dorset
(now Somerset near Chard on A30)
Robert Pocklington - Head - Unwed - aged 24 years - Farmer - born, Fobbing, Essex
Ann Pocklington - says, Sister, but must be his Mother by age and description of a Widow - aged 56 years - Housekeeper - born Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk.
Mary Ann Hunt - Visitor - aged 41 years - London, Middsx
Vincent Wing - Visitor - aged 43 years - born, Edinburgh, Scotland
Individual Notes
Note for: William Worthy Pocklington, 1787 - 15 DEC 1788
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Christening: Date: 22 JUN 1788
Place: Kinoulton, Notts, Eng
Burial: Date: 16 DEC 1788
Place: Kinoulton, Notts, Eng
Individual Notes
Note for: Eliza Harvey Count, 1817 - 14 JAN 1875
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Burial: Date: 20 JAN 1875
Place: All Saints Churchyard, Vange, Essex
Individual Note:
Eliza Harvey Pocklington -
Effects under £200
Proved 22nd June 1875
Admin to the effects of Eliza Harvey Pocklington,
wife of John Pocklington, late of Vange, Co. Essex.
Died 14th January 1875 at Vange, Co. Essex
was granted to said John Pocklington of Vange, Farmer
Individual Notes
Note for: Eliza Pocklington, 17 JUN 1841 - UNKNOWN
Index
Individual Note:
Born Blossoms Farm Hadleigh. at 10pm 17.6.1841
Birth Registration Ref - Rochford XII 187 - Qtr 3 1841
Marriage Reg Ref - Billericay 4a 221 - quarter 4 1865
1891 Census
5 Cashiobury Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Elizabeth Moss - Head - Married - Aged 49 years - Let Appartments - born, Hadleigh, Essex
Bertha Moss - Daug - Single - Aged 19 years - Ass. Mother. Dom - born, Tolleshunt Major, Essex.
John Pocklington - Nephew - Single - Aged 12 years - Scholar - born, Vange, Essex.
Ref - RG12/1391
Individual Notes
Note for: Mary Ann Pocklington, BET OCT AND DEC 1842 - 20 DEC 1906
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Occupation: Date: 1881
Place: Stationer
Burial: Date: 22 DEC 1906
Place: Sutton Rd Cem, Southend, Essex.
Individual Note:
Unwed
Occupation - Stationer
Born - Blossoms Farm, Hadleigh, Essex
Census 1881
RG11 1769 Folio 55
3 Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary Anne Pocklington - age 38 - Stationer - born Hadleigh, Essex
Harriet Jane Pocklington - age 36 - Sister - Stationer - born Hadleigh, Essex
Buried in Sutton Road, Cemetery, Southend, Essex - Grave, Plot A 1371 - a common grave initially but in 1914 it was purchased by her sister Harriet Jane. She does not share the burial plot with anyone else.
(A question regarding her death certificate = death witnessed by G. King sister...? not a known relative...? perhaps a nursing sister at the hospital where she died...? (this G. King resided at 53 Staines Road, Forest Gate, East London.)) - further research required.......
Birth Reg Ref - Rochford XII 279 - quarter 4 1842
Death Reg Ref - Rochford 4a 371 Qtr ? 1906 aged 63yrs
1891 Census
RG12/1391
3 Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary A Pocklington - Head - Single - Aged 48 years - Stationer - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
Harriet Jane Pocklington - Sister - Single - Aged 45 years - Stationer - born, Hadleigh, Essex
Henry Mayes - Visitor - Single - Aged 43 years - Living on own means - born, Stanford le Hope, Essex.
(Information from Southend on Sea, Local Studies Library, that Nelson Terrace was situated on the West side of Nelson Street - re telephone call of May 2006 )
1901 Census
RG13/1679 page 6
Civil Parish - Prittlewell (part of)
Municipal Borough - Southend on Sea
Parliamentary Borough - South Eastern Div: part of
Ecclesiastical Parish - St. John the Baptist
3, Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary Pocklington - Head - Single - aged 52 years - Stationer & Newsagent - Own
account - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
Harriet J. Pocklington - Sister - Single - aged 50 years - Stationer & Newsagent - Own account - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
John Pocklington - Nephew - Single - aged 22 years - Ironmonger's Assistant - Worker - born, Vange, Essex.
Alfred F. Freeman - Boarder - Married - aged 30 years - Joiner …?… - Worker - born, Holloway, London
Eliza Freeman - Boarder - Married - aged 28 years - born, Newark, Notts
(from enumerators sheet)
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, Downha
Individual Notes
Note for: Harriet Jane Pocklington, 1845 - BET APR AND JUN 1929
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Occupation: Date: 1881
Place: Stationer
Individual Note:
Unwed
Occupation - Stationer
Born Blossoms Farm, Hadleigh, Essex
Birth Reg Ref - Rochford - XII 310 - Qtr 1 1845
Census 1881
RG11 1769 Folio 55
3 Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary Anne Pocklington - age 38 - Stationer - born Hadleigh, Essex
Harriet Jane Pocklington - age 36 - Sister - Stationer - born Hadleigh, Essex
1891 Census
3 Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary A Pocklington - Head - Single - Aged 48 years - Stationer - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
Harriet Jane Pocklington - Sister - Single - Aged 45 years - Stationer - born, Hadleigh, Essex
Henry Mayes - Visitor - Single - Aged 43 years - Living on own means - born, Stanford le Hope, Essex.
Ref - RG12/1391
Death Reg Ref - West Ham, London - Quarter 2 1929 4a 139a
1901 Census
RG13/1679 page 6
Civil Parish - Prittlewell (part of)
Municipal Borough - Southend on Sea
Parliamentary Borough - South Eastern Div: part of
Ecclesiastical Parish - St. John the Baptist
3, Nelson Terrace, Prittlewell, Essex.
Mary Pocklington - Head - Single - aged 52 years - Stationer & Newsagent - Own
account - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
HARRIET J. Pocklington - Sister - Single - aged 50 years - Stationer & Newsagent - Own account - born, Hadleigh, Essex.
John Pocklington - Nephew - Single - aged 22 years - Ironmonger's Assistant - Worker - born, Vange, Essex.
Alfred F. Freeman - Boarder - Married - aged 30 years - Joiner …?… - Worker - born, Holloway, London
Eliza Freeman - Boarder - Married - aged 28 years - born, Newark, Notts
(from enumerators sheet)