Hi I have been on the wrong track for my Brocks and wonder if anyone can help with this. I am looking for the one that married Marjory Fletcher and it can't be the one born in 1766 cause when he died he was 78 in 1866? Any help appreciated.
thanks Bronwen Christchurch, NZ
Walter Brock husband of Isobel Reid
b.1716 April 22, Glasgow with John Wilson, William Clark
m.1744? Isobel Reid
d.
Isobel Reid wife of Walter Brock, mother of James Brock
b.1727 Feb 26 cMar 5 East Kilbride, Lanark, Scotland
m.1744? Walter Brock
d
Children 9
1745 Feb 28 Grissel Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1747 Jan 12 Neil Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1754 Aug 6 Betty Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1756 June 2 Isobel Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1759 June 3 Magdalen Block Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1761 Apr 16 Walter Brock, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1762 Oct 26 c.Nov 2 James Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1765 Jan 3 Isobel Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
1766 Nov 25 James Brock Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
James Brock husband of Mary Fletcher/Wright
b.
m.1832 March 14 Mary Fletcher (reg.)
d.1866 July 1 aged 78, 48 Muir Street, paralysis for 19 days, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, weaver, son Alexander Brock Withall St No. 4 Glasgow signed (reg.)
Census
1832 cotton weaver at time of marriage
1841 James 50, cotton hand loom weaver, Meady Fletcher 40 (not born in county), John 22 cotton hand loom weaver, James 9, Alexander 6, Jean 3. Lamb St, Gorbals, Lanark
1851 James 60, Mary 50 weaver’s wife, John 32, Betty 22 weaver’s daughter, Alexander 19, Jane 10 weaver’s daughter, James 16. All males listed are weavers. Father and children all born in Hamilton (Mary was born in Edinburgh) 23 Quarry Road,
1861 James 70, hand loom silk weaver, Margot 63 Pirn winder - someone who wound the yarn onto large wheel like bobbins which were then used to feed the cotton wheels hand loom cotton, Alexander 26 hand loom cotton weaver. 11 John Street, Lanark
Mary/Marjory Fletcher (Wright) wife of James Brock and mother of Jane Brock
b.1800? (can’t find looked for Wright and Fletcher in Edinburgh between 1795 and 1815)
m.1832 March 14 James Brock, cotton weaver (reg.)
d.1872 June 8, 7 Portland Place, Hamilton, 72 years old, died of chronic bronchitis, widow of James Brock, silk weaver, signed by son Alexander Brock, 4 Whitehall Street, Glasgow (reg.)
Children 5 (can’t find on Scotland’s people) this information from the census
1818 John Brock, Hamilton, Scotland
1829 Betty Brock, Hamilton, Scotland
1832 James Brock, Hamilton, Scotland
1835 Alexander Brock, Hamilton, Scotland
1839 Jane Brock, Hamilton, Scotland – her death certificate says her mother was Marjory Brock, previously Fletcher and Wright
Census
1871 Marjory Brock, 2 Leechlee Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, (modern building) widow aged 69 born in Edinburgh
