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- THE BIG TREE OF HOCKLEYs
- The family tree for one HOCKLEY family from Essex, England
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Ruth Hockley
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- Where does one start with a family like ours?
So many people have tried to put it all together but it would seem that
no-one can ever have all the answers. The late Oliver Hockley did a great deal towards sorting out a large portion
of this history and after him came Darrel
Hockley who managed to collect further information, particularly for the
emigrant branches of the tree. Michael
Peck had done lots of research on the Hockleys and he was kind enough to
let me have a copy of his tree however, it wasn't until Ian Hockley started delving into the older records and checking out
what had been amassed by the others, that it became clear that our branch
was connected to Oliver's and that they all came from the same stem. I,
myself, had done quite a lot of research into our branch but had picked up a
'red herring' on the way and it was Ian who sorted this out for me.
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- Then came the Internet and a chance connection
with Darlene Heal in Canada.
Darlene's family is descended from an emigrant from our branch of the family
and she has done lots of research into that group, even overcoming the
problem of a name change! She has transcribed Hockley data and contacted
other Hockley researchers world-wide. Her daughter Lindsay, set up the Hockley Web-page on the Internet where Darlene
is amassing Hockley data from parish records and also the 'Hockley
Researchers List' most of whom have no connection with our tree but who
we support in any way we can with data and contacts. There are many others, each of whom have
researched their own part of the tree and made their contribution.
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- Would
like to view our tree?
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- Click
on "The Big Tree of Hockleys" link.
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- Microsoft
EXCEL program is required to view the tree.
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- Personal
details about living family members have been removed.
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- If
you belong to this Hockley family, we'd love to hear from you.
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- The Hockley Book is a compilation of our whole family. It is a jigsaw puzzle
and a logic problem and there are still areas to research. We have tried
to take the story further back in time than Oliver.
We admit that we cannot offer the detail Oliver was looking for
when he began his search though the information he and Darrel provided has
been included here. It can't be helped, it is just too late to have family
stories 'first-hand'. Some of
the evidence is circumstantial but what family history doesn't contain
that. We do our best and keep
on looking for that little missing piece which just might tie in a few
loose ends. What is fairly
certain is that there is evidence for the family having been in Thaxted
and the surrounding area in the early 17th Century and that is where the
story begins.
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- The Hockley Book is not linked to this web page. The book contains
personal details about living family members, for this reason, will never be
posted to our website. Last count, it contained more than sixty pages of
genealogy, stories, photographs, wills and certificates. The interactive
Hockley book is available to family members on CD. For further information
contact Ruth
Hockley
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Posted June 15, 2003
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