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Spouses/Children:
Matilda Carbines
- Elizabeth Mary Hocking
- Francis Bartholomew Hocking
- Matilda Eliza Annie Hocking
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Francis Hocking of Geelong
- Born: 23 Jun 1827, Copperhouse, Phillack, Cornwall 3
- Christened: 11 Sep 1827, Camborne, Cornwall 1
- Married: 1 Oct 1856, Phillack, Cornwall 1
- Died: 4 Nov 1911, Oakleigh, Victoria. Australia 2
- Buried: 6 Nov 1911, Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 3
 Research Notes:
In 1851 Francis Hocking, aged 23, born in Phillack Cornwall, unmarried, pattern maker, was with his widowed father in Copperhouse, Phillack.
In 1861 Francis Hocking, aged 33, born in Phillack Cornwall, joiner & carpenter, and wife Matilda, aged 33, born in St. Erth Cornwall, were living in Copper House, Phillack. With them were children Elizth. M. (3) of Phillack, and Francis B. (1) of Phillack. Francis's father was living nextdoor.
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HOCKING.—On the 4th November, 1911, at Oakleigh, Francis Hocking, aged 84 years (late of Geelong).
Friends are respectfully informed that the funeral will leave the Geelong Railway Station this Day (Monday), the 6th inst. on arrival of midday tram from Melbourne (12.49 p.m.) for the Eastern Cemetery.
Geelong Advertiser, Monday, 6 Nov 1911, p. 1
Marriage Information:
Francis married Matilda Carbines, daughter of Richard Carbines and Mary Ellis, on 1 Oct 1856 in Phillack, Cornwall. (Matilda Carbines was born in 1826 in 20 Aug 1826, christened 20 Aug 1826 in St. Erth, Cornwall, died on 12 Apr 1874 in Victoria, Australia and was buried in Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.)
Marriage Notes:
Francis Hocking, age 29, bachelor, pattern maker, resident of Copperhouse, son of Bartholomew Hocking, carpenter, and
Matilda Carbines, age 29, spinster, resident of Bodriggy, daughter of Richard Carbines, farmer
Witnesses: Betsy Hill, Bartholomew Hocking
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