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Dora Lilian Cock was descended from our common ancestors, John Greenfield and Susan Whistler, who married about 1804. Direct ancestors of the Green branch are in red.

Last update: 19 Mar 2007

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Arnold...Cock...Cracknel...Field...Fletcher...Greenfield...Grimmer...Humphrey...Ives
Johnson...Kemp...Lyon...Manborn...Matthews...Pettit...Rudland...Whistler



GENERATION 1

1 Edward COCK bur 25 Apr 1747 Hockwold m Ann bur 6 Sep 1768 Hockwold

Children of Edward and Ann
2......John bap 28 Feb 1702 Hockwold
3......William bap 1 Aug 1706 Hockwold



GENERATION 2

2 John COCK m Margaret bef 1744 [see COCK branch]

Children of John and Margaret
4......Joseph bap 1 May 1744 Hockwold
5......Ann bap 3 Jul 1757 Hockwold



GENERATION 3

4 Joseph COCK m Sarah FIELD Hockwold

Children of Joseph and Sarah
6......Joseph bap 2 Jan 1768 Hockwold
7......Field (male) bap 27 Dec 1769 Hockwold
8......John bap 25 Oct 1771 Hockwold



GENERATION 4


9 John CRACKNEL b abt 1755 d 10 Sep 1821 in Feltwell m Sarah

Children of John and Sarah
10......Mary bap 5 Aug 1794 in Feltwell
11......Robert m Mary Ann PETTIT
12......John d 11 Aug 1782
13......Elizabeth m John MANBORN


7 Field COCK m (a) Elizabeth (b) Jane of Felwell (c) Margaret GRIMMER

Children of Field and Elizabeth
14......Thomas bap 18 May 1784 Feltwell
15......Lydia bap 28 Apr 1786

Children of Field and Jane
16......Esther bap 3 May 1789 Wilton

Children of Field and Margaret Cock
17......Field bap 15 Sep 1799 Wilton - was a wheelwright in 1845
18......Robert bap 6 Aug 1801 Wilton
19......Sarah bap 30 Nov 1806 Hockwold
20......Mary bap 7 July 1808 Hockwold
21......Edward bap 20 Sep 1809 bur 1 Oct 1809
22......Joseph bap 14 Jun 1811 bur 16 Jun 1811


Note: there was also a Grimmer COCK keeping a beerhouse in Hockwold in 1845, but no record of baptism, and a Joseph COCK who kept the "Ball" public house in 1845.




GENERATION 5

17 Field COCK m 10 Mary CRACKNEL (d 15 Jan 1872) 20 Nov 1816

Children of Field and Mary
23......Robert bap 1817 d 11 Apr 1876 [carpenter in Feltwell]
24......Jane bap 1821 Feltwell m Joseph RUDLAND (b1817 d 1869)
25......Another child d 1890


26 John GREENFIELD m Susan WHISTLER (bap 13 Mar 1775 d 28 Aug 1865) abt 18 04
[note: For Susan's ancestors,
click here]
Children of John and Susan

27......Sarah bap 1805
28......Susan bap 25 Mar 1806 Weeting
29......William bap 20 Jan 1807 Weeting
30......Mary bap 1810 d 8 Oct 1899 m Edward JOHNSON [
See Johnson Branch]
31......Elizabeth b 1817 d 1890 at Buckenham



GENERATION 6


31 Elizabeth GREENFIELD m 23 Robert COCK (b 1817 d 11 Apr 1876) 14 Oct 1842 [see COCK branch here]

Children of Robert and Elizabeth

32......Mary Ann b 1843
33......Greenfield b 18 Jul 1845 d 1 Sep 1904
34......Amelia Jane b 2nd qr 1847 [Thetford 13 29(01)]
Note: She is buried with brother Alfred and his wife Mary in Lewisham cemetery
35......Alfred b 2nd qr 1849 [Thetford 13 463]
36......Charles Jabez bap 1 May 1851, carpenter, d 26 Jul 1913 in a fall from his horse in Kemps Lane Hockwold m Agnes JOHNSON(See Cock branchhere or the Johnson Branch here)
37......George b 1856
38......Arthur b 1st qr 1859 [Thetford 4b 425]
39......Edith b 3rd qr 1864 [Thetford 4b 383]



GENERATION 7

33 Greenfield COCK m Mary Edwards FLETCHER (b 23 Jul 1846 d 4 Dec 1930) 1870

Note: Greenfield seems to have been a man of many parts. In 1861 he is described as an apprentice carpenter, but he became a wheelwright in later years. In 1871 he was a carpenter living in Wilton.In 1879/80 he is listed in a directory as a "steam miller" . In 1881 he appears in the census as a builder and wheelwright employing 4 men and one boy living in Bell Street, Feltwell. In 1891 he was living in Bell Street, Feltwell as a builder and miller and he was described in a directory of 1892 just as a miller. When he died he was described as a builder.He lived in Bell Street, Feltwell, in a house later occupied by Mr Parnell, the village barber. An account of his funeral may be seen
here

Children of Greenfield and Mary
39......Evangeline Charlotte E b 4th qr 1870 [Thetford 4b 363]
40......Ada Mary b 2nd qr 1872 [Thetford 4b 394]
41......Gertrude Annie b 3rd qr 1873 m Sidney JOHNSON [See Johnson Branch]
42......Ethel Sarah b 1875 m Harry JOHNSON [See Johnson Branch]
43......William Robert b 1877 Feltwell
44......Dora Lilian b 1878 Feltwell d 26 Mar 1959
45......Kate Louise b 1882 Feltwell
46......Elsie Winifred Gwendoline b 1884 Feltwell


35 Alfred COCK m Elizabeth b 1849 Mildenhall)

Note: In 1891 they were living at White House Drove, Littleport

Children of Alfred and Elizabeth
35a......John William b 4th qr 1873 Feltwell [Thetford 4b 319]
Note: In 1891 John was an ag lab
35b......Thomas H b 1877 Littleport
Note: In 1891 Thomas was an ag lab
35c......Sarah A b 1881 Littleport
35d......Harriet b 1885 Littleport
35e......Mary b 1888 Littleport
35f......Eliza b 1890 Littleport


38 Arthur COCK m Maria (b 1860 Ely)

Note: Arthur was a grocer, draper and carpenter in 1891 living at High Street, Hockwold cum Wilton. Also living with the family was Emma ARNOLD servant b 1873 Wilton

Children of Arthur and Maria
38a......Reginald b 1885 Feltwell
38b......Jeanette M b 1888 Feltwell



GENERATION 8

43 William Robert COCK m Annie Elizabeth KEMP (b 1875 d 1912)

Child of William Robert and Annie
43b...... Harry dob unknown. Harry became Treasurer of Glamorgan County Council


44 Dora Lilian COCK m Ernest Russel MATTHEWS (b 9 Jul 1881 d 10 Apr 1965) 22 Apr 1905

Children of Ernest and Dora MATTHEWS
47......Ernest Greenfield b 1916 d 9 Jun 2005 m (a) Eveline Mary IVES (b 1 Aug 1912 d 5 Nov 2000) 26 Dec 1937 and (b) a second wife, still living
48......Gertrude Ellen b 1906 m George LYON
49......Frederick Russell b 1908 d 13 Jun 2001



GENERATION 9


48 Gertrude Ellen MATTHEWS m George LYON (d 1957)

Children of George and Gertrude
50......a daughter, still alive
51......a daughter, still alive


49 Frederick Russell MATTHEWS m Hilda HUMPHREY (b 28 Jul 1915 d 31 Oct 2000) on 28 Jun 1940

Children of Frederick Russell and Hilda
52......a boy, still living, b 27 Nov 1943: married, with issue: a boy b 6 Jun 1981
53......a boy, still living, b 27 Apr 1945: married, with issue: a boy b 6 Dec 1977


Note: there are other descendants of Ernest and Dora MATTHEWS, but all still alive and are therefore not shown. If you are interested in following this through, please contact Suzan Matthews, QC.,to whom my grateful thanks for the information which enabled this page.

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