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Title: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Donez on Wednesday 09 September 15 19:57 BST (UK)
Hi all

Could someone please do me a 1841 census lookup on a couple that I believe married in 1847 so that I can establish their families.

John Pratt born abt. 1824 in Brascote, Warwickshire
Catherine Hercock born abt, 1824 in Belton, nr, Loughborough

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: groom on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:04 BST (UK)
Haven't found her on the 1841 yet, but this looks like her baptism

Catharine Hercock
Baptism Date:   10 Mar 1825
Belton, Rutland, England
Father:   John Hercock
Mother:   Alice
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Donez on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:14 BST (UK)
Thanks Groom. I had not heard of Belton-in-Rutland, I had assumed Belton near Loughborough. I only knew that the 1851 census after marriage said Belton, Leics.

I could not find either groom nor bride prior to marriage in 1841 census.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: groom on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:27 BST (UK)
If that's her family they are here in 1841, but Catharine isn't with them

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M77Y-DLG
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: keyboard86 on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:33 BST (UK)
Hi Catherine b c 1824 is in Uppingham 1841
Census ref HO107/896/ 10/11 / 15
Keyboard86
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:37 BST (UK)
Have some Rutland records 1813-1840
Found these baptisms

10   APR   1825   CATHERINE    HERCOCK   D/O   JOHN/ALICE   LEIGHFIELD FOREST, FARMER/GRAZIER   BELTON, RUTLAND

30   JUL   1820   GEORGE   HERCOCK   S/O   JOHN/ALICE   LEIGHFIELD FOREST, FARMER/GRAZIER   BELTON, RUTLAND

8   OCT   1815   JOHN   HERCOCK   S/O   JOHN/ALICE   FOREST OF LYEFIELD, FARMER   BELTON, RUTLAND

6   APR   1828   MARY   HERCOCK      JOHN/ALICE   FARMER   WING

17   NOV   1822   SARAH   HERCOCK   D/O   JOHN/ALICE   LEIGHFIELD FOREST, FARMER/GRAZIER   BELTON, RUTLAND

25   JAN   1818   THOMAS   HERCOCK   S/O   JOHN/ALICE   LYEFIELD, FARMER   BELTON, RUTLAND


***
18   OCT   1840   MARY JANE    HERCOCK   D/O   JOHN/JANE   LABOURER   WING

No other Hercock's

Just one burial
8    FEB   1833   JOHN    HERCOCK         94      WING

One marriage
2    JAN   1831   
WILLIAM    HERCOCK   WADENHOE, NTH   
MARY   BAGLEY   OTP   LICENCE   WING


1841 in Wing
John Alice and 3 sons

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M77Y-DLP

The boys baptisms are on IGI and a Mary as well, Uppingham
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:41 BST (UK)
And marriage at St Margaret

Entry No.494,  NOV 19, 1847, after Banns
JOHN PRATT, full age, bach. SERVANT, of LEE St, s. of JOHN PRATT, TAILOR
CATHERINE HERCOCK, full age, sp. of ALBION St, d. of JOHN HERCOCK, FARMER
Wits: THOMAS PRATT,  MARY HERCOCK
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Donez on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:47 BST (UK)
Thank you so much Willsy.
That marriage record ties down the parents as John and Alice from Belton-in-Rutland, not the Belton I had assumed. The Baptisms are a great bonus as it throws light on siblings.

The record for Catharine or Catherine in 1841 Census, could someone please transcribe the record for me as I no longer have access.

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:52 BST (UK)
Mis-spelling

25   JUN   1837   DANIEL   HIRCOCK      JOHN/ALICE   FARMER   WING
25   JUN   1837   DAVID   HIRCOCK      JOHN/ALICE   FARMER   WING
17   APR   1831   GEORGE   HIRCOCK   S/O   WILLIAM/MARY   SERVANT   WING

14   NOV   1839   JOHN   HIRCOCK   OTP, LABOURER   JANE    CORE   WAKERLEY, SERVANT   BANNS   BARROWDEN

APR   1838   WILLIAM   BROWETT   SAWYER, NORTH LUFFENHAM   LETITIA   HIRCOCK   OTP      STH LUFFENHAM

1841

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M77Y-DB2
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:54 BST (UK)
This will help as well

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01g3d/
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: keyboard86 on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:57 BST (UK)
Hi Catherine Hercock aged 17 occ Female Servant is with a George Towell and family at High Street. Uppingham
Cannot quite work out occupation of George could be Grocer?
Keyboard86
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: groom on Wednesday 09 September 15 20:58 BST (UK)
It's also on FamilySearch

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M77Y-DB2
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:01 BST (UK)
There's this in the paper

Stamford Mercury 24 February 1860

At Wing on the 20th inst., Alice C. Hercock, aged 69.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Donez on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:07 BST (UK)
Hi Willsy.

Would that be a death record in the newspaper?
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:13 BST (UK)
Yes it is :)
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:32 BST (UK)
Only marriage I have been able to find

Northants
John HERCOCK otp Alice BIRD otp 1808 09-May Laxton

He also left a will

England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858
Name:    John Hercock
Probate Date:    25 Jan 1847
Residence:    Wing, Rutland, England
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: willsy on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:46 BST (UK)
In Northants, found

William Hircock son John and Alice bap 22 October 1809 Laxton C of E born 23 Sept
and
Henry 22 Aug 1811 15 born Aug

People mentioned in the will Alice and Thomas, appeared personally Eli John Parker
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Jomot on Wednesday 09 September 15 21:57 BST (UK)
John & Catherine married at St Margaret's 19 Nov 1847, Johns father was also John.  Witnesses were Thomas Pratt & Mary Hercock. 

The transcript is full of abbreviations so I'll type exactly what it says: 

g:ofa servant, tailor,  ofa farmer

Which I believe means John Pratt Snr was a servant to a tailor (?) and John Hercock was a farmer

On second thoughts, it means of full age (doh!) John Jr was a servant & his father a tailor.  John Hercock was a farmer.

And an extra Doh!! - I missed that Willsy already gave full details. Apologies
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Jomot on Wednesday 09 September 15 22:18 BST (UK)
Also at St Margaret's

11 Feb 1849 Thomas Hercock Pratt s/o John & Catherine Pratt of Canning Place, FWK
11 Feb 1849 John Barron* Pratt s/o John & Catherine Pratt of Canning Place, FWK
10 Jun 1850 Ann d/o John & Catherine Pratt of Wheat Street, FWK
14 Apr 1852 John s/o John & Catherine Pratt of Wheat Street, FWK
19 Nov 1854 Sarah d/o John & Catherine Pratt of New Street, FWK


**BMD has this as Barrow. Both born 1848 & died 1849
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: susieroe on Friday 11 September 15 11:14 BST (UK)
Hi, Donez. John and Catherine Pratt are my great, great grandparents. I descend from their daughter Catherine, and I see from your other posts that you descend from Ann Letitia, who married Edward Boys.
John was baptised at Sutton Cheyney on 11th May, 1825 by his parents, John and Elizabeth (nee Goddard (John was a Tailor). He had 2 brothers, William (1821) and Thomas (1828).In 1871, John was a Framework Knitter and the family were living at 84, Crafton St., but by 1881, John was the Innkeeper of The Plough at Humberstone.
I copied Catherine's Will, which was made on the 26th March 1896, and probate was granted to her daughter and executor, Mary Elizabeth. Catherine was a Burgess of Leicester. She died possessed of 4 houses in Overton Rd., New Humberstone, leaving one to each of their children/granchildren: No. 139 to George and Sarah Radford, No.141 to Alfred and Catherine Eastwood (2nd husband), No.24 to Edward Boys and grandchild Ann Letitia Boys, and No.26 to Mary Elizabeth Jacob which was Catherine's abode too.
More if you need it!   
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Derek C Goodwin on Sunday 19 July 20 10:14 BST (UK)
Hercock has a few mutations in Laxton. Heircock,Harcock and Heircock. Only a morsel I know, but it all helps.

Regards

Derek C Goodwin.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: susieroe on Sunday 19 July 20 11:11 BST (UK)
Thanks Derek, yes I noticed that when searching them. The Midlands accent causes it in this case, I reckon,  :)
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Derek C Goodwin on Sunday 19 July 20 11:44 BST (UK)
I have a verifed mass of the hercock lines from Laxton, are you on ancestry? if not I could drop you a copy of my ged file.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: susieroe on Monday 20 July 20 13:53 BST (UK)
I'm not on Ancestry at the moment, and I wouldn't know what to do with a ged com! Most of my files are on paper. I think I've traced the Hercock  line back to 1679 when William Cunnington was baptised at Burton Latimer. Certainly from Letitia Cunnington (bap. 1749 at Kings Cliffe, dr. of John). She married John Bird in 1771 and their daughter, Alice Cunnington Bird (bapt, 1791 at Laxton), married John Hircock in 1808. I think John was the son of John and Mary (Bradshaw) Hird, bapt. 11th June 1780 at Laxton.
I connected this John Hircock to the Laxton families because John and Alice Hercock's daughter Catherine named a daughter Ann Letitia and a son John Barrow. John Barrow was a witness at at John and Alice's wedding. Also, there was a Daniel Hircock marrying at Barrowden, Rutland which is where my family lived.
How do you fit into the family...it's just struck me, we must be cousins? I'm sure your research is more prolific than mine, I admit it was rather cursory, and years ago, in order to establish the Rutland family's roots.
Title: Re: Hercock / Pratt
Post by: Derek C Goodwin on Monday 20 July 20 16:35 BST (UK)
I can send you a few jpegs if you like, I have some lovely stuff and the heircock story is still being written. bean210666@gmail.com