Grace BENNETTS

   Research Notes:

In 1841, Grace Hocking (30) and husband Nicholas Hocking (30), copper miner, were living in High Downs, Camborne. Present were children: Mary (13), mine girl, John (11), ag. lab., Christopher (8), Eliza (6), Margret (3), James (1)

In 1851, Grace Hocking (42) of Camborne and husband Nicholas Hocking (43) of Camborne, working engineer, were living in High Downs, Camborne. Present were children (born in Camborne): John (21), engine worker, Christopher (19), miner, Eliza Ann (16), mine girl, Margaret (13), mine girl, James (11), scholar, Elizabeth (8), Grace (6), Maryann (4)

In 1861, Grace Hocking (52) of Camborne and husband Nichls. Hocking (53) of Camborne, working engineer, were living in Camborne. Present were children: Grace (15), tin mine boy [sic], Mary A. (13), tin mine boy [sic], Joseph (9), scholar, and boarder Eliza A. Marton* (26) of Camborne, married, dressmaker

* daughter Eliza Ann, who married John Martin of Brea in 1854.

In 1871, Grace Hocking (62) of Camborne and husband Nichs. Hocking (63) of Camborne, civil engineer, were living in Camborne. Present were daughter Mary A. Hocking (23), school mistress, [husband's] sister Mary A. Bennetts (69) of Camborne, widow*

* This may, in fact, have been Grace's eldest sister Mary Ann Bennetts (rather than a widowed sister of husband Nicholas).

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Grace Hocking died during the 2nd Quarter aged 63 years (GROE Death Index, vol. 5c, p. 183).

   Marriage Information:

Grace married Nicholas HOCKING, son of John HOCKIN and Margaret WILLS, on 6 Apr 1828 in Camborne, Cornwall. (Nicholas HOCKING was born in 1807 in Camborne, Cornwall, christened on 5 Feb 1808 in Camborne, Cornwall and died in 1875 in Camborne, Cornwall.)