Alcock Family (Nee Alcock)

A Memory of Old Woodhall.

My gt.gt.gt. grandfather, John Alcock and his brother William Alcock farmed in Old Woodhall from around 1850 to 1882. John and his wife Elizabeth both have gravestones in the old St. Margaret's churchyard (sadly now overgrown). I don't know the names of the farms they both had, but John rented his land (250 acres). When he died in l882 all his farms animals (sheep, cows, pigs, poultry and horses) were sold by auction, together with his farm implements, 400 stone of potatoes, 25 stone of home cured ham, and his furniture. Elizabeth was his second wife and after she died he married another Elizabeth (a young woman who was his housekeeper).

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