'Brock1'
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Families covered: Brock (Brocke) of Upton
| Ormerod identifies the arms of this family as "Gules, on a chief Argent, a lion passant, Gules". Earwalker starts with 2 brothers, shown as sons of ... | |||||||||||||||
| _ Brock | |||||||||||||||
| 1/2. | Robert Brock (Archdeacon of Middlesex, Chapltin to Henry VIII) | ||||||||||||||
| 2/1. | William Brock of Upton, Cheshire | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Swinton of Knitsford | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Brock of Upton (a 1530) the first mentioned by Ormerod | ||||||||||||||
| m(1). Parnel Vaudrey (dau of Thomas Vaudrey or Vawdrey of Riddings) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert Brock of Upton (d 30.12.1603) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Jane Cotgreave (bur 30.01.1573-4, dau/coheir of John Cotgreave of Edmunds Cotton) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Brock of Upton (dsp before 1594) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Gamull (a 1637, dau of Edmund Gamull of Chester, m2. Edward Holand of Denton) | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Robert Brock of Upton (d 30.11.1603) this generation (Robert and his brothers) omitted by Ormerod | ||||||||||||||
| m. Avise George (a 1603, dau/heir of Joshua George of George Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Brocke (b c1591, d 04.04.1640, of the Inner Temple) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Mohun (d 17.06.1660, dau/coheir of Robert Mohun of Baynton) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Brock of Upton (b 1622, bur 13.05.1671) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Brerewood (bur 21.05.1662, dau of Sir Robert Brerewood of Chester, judge) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Brock of Upton (b c1643, d 10.01.1715/6) | ||||||||||||||
| Ormerod shows this William as m1. Katherine Gregg and his step-mother (his father's 2nd wife) as Susanna Hockenhull. Provisionally, we follow Earwalker which shows them the other way round. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Ssuannah Hockenhull (bur 02.02.1699-1700, dau of Joseph Hockenhull of Shotwick) | |||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Earwalker. Ormerod appears to confuse the next 2 generations, for example showing the William who m. Elizabeth Hurleston as brother rather than father of the Elizabeth who m. John Ergerton. | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | William Brock of Upton, Sheriff of Cheshire (b 1675-6, d 10.08.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hurleston (bur 08.11.1735, dau of John Hurleston of Picton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Elizabeth Brock (d 19.07.1756) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.04.1721) John Egerton of Broxton and/or Oulton (bpt 16.03.1696-7, bur 25.05. 1770) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2))+ | other issue (d unm) - William (b c1696, dvpsp bur 26.03.1715), Thomas (b c1700, bur 20.05.1707), Susannah (bur 31.03.1766), Anne (bur 26.04.1758), Margaert (bur 30.05.1753) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Elizabeth Brock (bpt 08.03.1680-1) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (05.12.1700) William Hurleston | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (before 1713) John Wilson of Chester | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Susannah Brock (bpt 08.06.1682) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (18.01.1699-1700) William Delves of Bowden | |||||||||||||||
| (d)+ | other issue - Thomas (d 1715), John (bur 15.02.1725-6), Joseph (bpt 03.10.1678, bur 05.06.1705), Edward (bpt 13.11.1679, bur 23.05.1713) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (04.06.1700) Rachel (bur 14.05.1715, widow of _ Williams) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Margaret Brock (bpt 23.07.1656) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.05.1673) Singleton Birkenhead of Backford (b 1636, d 1694) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii)+ | other issue - John (bpt 18.02.1645-6, bur 17.02.1725-6), Randle (bpt 05.01.1657-8), Anne, Elizabeth (bur 25.02.1658-9) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (14.05.1667) Katherine Gregg (bur 01.04.1695, dau/heir of Edward Gregg of Bradley-in-Appleton) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | John Brock of Nantwich (bpt 12.06.1628, bur 14.09.1696, 4th son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Mainwaring (bur 06.12.1666, dau of William Mainwaring of Nantwich) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Melior Brock | ||||||||||||||
| m. J. Brassey of Brassey Green | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Anne Brock | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Johnson (alderman of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| (E) | Avise (Amice) Brock | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Gregg of Bradley | |||||||||||||||
| (F) | Barbara Brock (bpt 23.07.1624) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Barnet | |||||||||||||||
| (G) | Katherine Brock | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Fletcher of Chester | |||||||||||||||
| (H)+ | other issue - William (bur 05.05.1655?), Robert (bur 22.03.1645-6), Eleanor (bpt 26.02.1623-4, bur 01.07.1637), child (bur 02.06.1649), Eleanor (bur 28.03.1670) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Katherine Brocke | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Ashton of Penketh | |||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - Edward (bpt 26.07.1598), Elizabeth (bpt 24.05.1597), Anne (bpt 19.11.1599) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | William Brock (a 1594, 1603) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Edward Brock (d 03.10.1639) | ||||||||||||||
| partner unknown | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Brock (bur 1630) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Catherine Brocke possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Gregge of Bradley (a 1613) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Gamul (dau of Edmund (not Edward) Gamul of Chester | |||||||||||||||
| ii.+ | other issue - John, Jane | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'The history of the church and parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill' (J.P. Earwalker (edited by Rupert Morris, 1898), 'Brock of Upton', p279+), Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 2, 'Brock of Upton', p444)
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