Birth: 1740 Blo Norton, Norfolk, UK
Father: William Cock c1715-1783
Mother: Elizabeth Long b1723-1742
Christening: 11 January 1740/1 St Andrew, Blo Norton, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 25th July 1763 Kenninghall, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Mary Leader (Leeder, Leedor) 1746-a1781
Death: August 1831 Fersfield, Norfolk, UK
Buried: 10 August 1831 North Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Eliza Cock 1763
William Cock 1765-1766
Edmund (Edward) Cock 1766-1830
Amy Cock 1767
Sarah Cock 1770
Mary Cock 1777
Thomas Cock 1780-1780
Thomas Cock 1781
Two entries in FreeReg for Wm and W:m Cock baptised 11 Jan 1740/1 at St Andrew, Blo Norton, Norfolk, parents Thos and Eliz Cock.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Wm Cook (sic) baptised 11 January 1740 at Blo Norton, parents Thos and Eliz Cook (sic). "A Bill Indented of Clergy Marriages, Christenings & Burials which were in ye Parish of Blo-norton in ye County of Norfolk in ye year of ye Lord 1740 [...] Christenings [...] Wm. S. of Thos. & Eliz. Cock - Jany. 11". The day could be interpreted with several different values.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for Wm Cook (sic) baptised 11 January 1740 in Blo Norton, parents Thos and Eliz Cook (sic). "Christnings 2740 [...] Wm. S. of Thos., Eliz. Cock Bap Jany 11."
His mother was buried on 3 November 1742 in Blo Norton.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for William Cook and Mary Leedor on 25 July 1763 in Hargham (sic), Norfolk and in Gorlestone, Suffolk.
Two entries in FreeReg for the marriage of William Cook and Mary Leeder by licence, and for the marriage of William Cock, a bachelor of Gorlestone Suffolk, and Mary Leeder a spinster of Kenninghall, both on 25 July 1763 at St Mary, Kenninghall, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop and Archdeacon Transcripts of Parish Registers, 1600-1935 for the marrage of Willam Cook (sic) and Mary Leeder on 25 July 1763 in Kenninghall. "Indented Bill for the Parish of Kenninghall ? from ? June 1763 to ? Marriages [...] William Cock and Mary Leeder by Licence 25th July 1763".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of William Cook (sic) and Mary Leeder on 25 July 1763 in Kenninghall. "The Year 1863 Page 23 No. 68 William Cock of the Parish of Gorlestone in the County of Suffolk and Mary Leeder of this Parish both single Married in this Church by Lisence this twenty fifth Day of July in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and sixty three [both made their marks]" .
His daughter was christened in Kenninghall on 2 August 1763 and son on 17 March 1765 in North Lopham, his second son was baptised on 29 September 1766 in South Lopham and the remaining five children in North Lopham from 1767 to 1781
His wife was buried on 19 April 1827 at St Nicholas, North Lopham.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for the burial of William Cock on 10 August 1831 in Lopham North, Norfolk.
Entry in FreeReg for the burial of William Cock of Fersfield on 10 August 1831 aged 99y at St Nicholas, North Lopham, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the burial of William Cook (sic) on 10 August 1831 aged 99 in North Lopham. "1831 North Lopham Burials [...] William Cock [of] Fersfield [on] Augst. 10th [aged] 99 years".
There are nineteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Cock.
Kenninghall is 6 miles north of Blo Norton with North Lopham midway beteen the two and Fersfield 3 miles east of North Lopham, all 20 miles SW of Norwich. Gorlestone is some 45 miles to the east on the coast just south of Great Yarmouth
William Cock was Felicity's fifth great grandfather.
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