April 5, 2001
Denis Hockley of Australia wrote, ". . . . One night I was joking with my wife about ego-surfing using 'google.com' and after giggling at some of the sites with her mother's name we put in our little boy's name, Phillip William George Hockley; and after a few pages up popped 'Phillip Hockley had a vineyard at Carlingfo......' "Whoa!" I said to the wife. "He's one of mine! How did that get there?" We clicked on and I nearly fell off the chair as Ephraim's details opened--I fell off again when I saw my own father's name!! Then getting serious about it I saw Marg Kennedy had submitted it to the Hockley Family History Site; and even more surprises when I saw she was a descendent of Ephraim's elder daughter whom I believed had died as a child. The parish records are missing for a few years and she is not on Ephraim's death cert. as living. The reason is very simple in that she was incorrectly entered by the vicar as 'Ottley' on the marriage certificate and I was not familiar with the groom's name, King. . . . . ."
Denis has graciously contributed a newspaper article which has been linked to the "Ephraim Hockley - Australia" page. The newspaper article is about the trial and sentence of Ephraim Hockley for stealing ale from a cellar! This is a valuable piece of family history and makes me wonder how many other newspaper articles are stored on microfilm in libraries around the world that would help add some "bark" to your family tree!