Archive for January, 2010

Joseph Hancock, son of George Hancock, boot tree maker, died at 3 Haddon Place, Waterloo Road on March 7, 1844, aged 3 months 9 days, of convulsions.
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To James Joseph Hancock, potter, and Hannah Hancock (née Blackwell), on November 12, 1838 at Vauxhall Walk, Parish of St Mary, a daughter, Eliza Hancock.
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Jane Mary Ann Hancock, daughter of James Joseph Hancock, potter, died at 77 Princes Road, Lambeth on November 2, 1847, aged 3 weeks. The cause of death was certified as inflammation of the chest.
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Sarah Coles, wife of Joseph Coles, brazier, died at 13 Upper Ogle Street on September 26, 1837, aged 43 years. The cause of death is recorded as hydrothorax.
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Joseph Coles got married between his hospitalisation in 1817 and the presentation to the Somersetshire Society of a report into his conduct as an apprentice in March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15) that said:

… subsequent to the time when he was in the hospital for the cure of the Venereal disease he had been in the habit of staying out all hours of the night sometimes all night and frequently whole days – that he had formed a connection with and had ultimately married their discharged Servant maid …

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I have finally managed to find some time to transcribe some of the documents I photographed on my recent visit to the Somerset Record Office in Taunton. The first is a report into the conduct of my 4 × great grandfather Joseph Coles as an apprentice to the tinsmith George Adcock. The report was provided to the Committee of the Somersetshire Society in London by John Moore—a copy of which was written into the minutes of the committee meeting held at Albion House on Monday, 15 March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15).
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