The TOCOCK One-Name Study

The TOCOCK One-Name Study

My connection with the TOCOCKs is that my children's great-grandmother was Alice TOCOCK. She married Francis LAWRENCE, her second husband, at Thatcham, Berkshire in 1901 and they were the grandparents of my ex-husband Francis Colin LAWRENCE. When our first son, John Francis Frederick LAWRENCE was born in 1976 my cousin Sheila Rubery, who lives in Canada, sent me a "Baby Album". One of the pages was a beautifully drawn Family Tree with spaces for the baby's ancestors back to his great-grandparents. As both Francis and I were born to parents who were all aged over 40, neither of us had known all our grandparents. Therefore I started asking questions to fill in the gaps - and somehow I've never stopped since!

My parents-in-law had a lot of information and photographs of Alice's family, including one of her father, Thomas TOCOCK, who was a hunt servant. As I had worked as a groom to the amatuer whip of the Garth & South Berks Hunt before my marriage to Francis in 1975, my interest was immediately captured. In 1980 I registered the TOCOCK One-Name Study and although my connection is by marriage only (and a severed one at that!) I am still interested in the research.

I have three TOCOCK Trees, which so far I haven't managed to connect up - two are in Hartley Wintney in the 19th century, the third, where the spelling has stablised at TWOCOCK, left Hampshire in the early 1700s to become established as a dynasty of Thames Watermen in London.

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Welcome to the new Website - watch as I rebuild it with updated former content and at last add the rest of the trees! It will now have a security certificate so there should be no problems with Browsers warning you of a Malicious website.
It's an exciting time for me!

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This website is now in the process of being transferred to a new Hosting Company, due to the sad demise of my wonderful ISP Brian Burgess of Newbury Internet, who set up my first internet connection back in the late 1990s and gave the most wonderful encouragement to me to move forward into the Digital Age and embrace its wonders! My new hosts. Mythic Beasts, are no stranger to dealing with Family Historians and came recommended by a friend and fellow member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, Wendy Archer. Their help and patience for me so far has been excellent.

My plan is to rebuild the site page by page editing as I go. I will try to retain the previous page names to make your browsing easy and I am hoping to get it done as quickly as possible! Please wish me luck!

My email may be down for a few days but it will remain the same! If you wish to contact me please send an email by clicking on the following link, or the one which you should find on most pages of this site: Polly Rubery

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