Grocock ~ Third Generation

		Issue of Samuel Grocock and Susannah Hurst
1.		Mary Anne GROCOCK Born 17 Dec 1817, chr 14 Jan 1818 at Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England (ref IGI). Also in Pallot's Baptism Index. Not found in further records.	IGI records
2.		Caroline Susannah GROCOCK Born 20 Sep 1819, chr 19 Oct 1819 at Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England (ref IGI). Also in Pallot's Baptism Index. There is a death registered of Caroline Grocock in Jun qtr 1839 at Brentford Dist, Middlesex (ref FreeBMD). Samuel and Susannah were living at Brentford in 1841.	IGI records
3.		William Henry GROCOCK Born 17 Jan 1822, chr 11 Feb 1822 at Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England (ref IGI). Also chr 25 Dec 1822 at Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England (ref IGI). According to Percival Serle, he was a handsome man with black hair and blue eyes, much vivacity, and fine manners. There was some suggestion that there was a French strain in his family. He was sent to a good school which Percival's mother thought was Eton, but his name does not appear on the school list. He studied medicine, then was left some legacies and went into business as an auctioneer and valuer of antiques. Not found in 1841 census. Marr (1) 25 Jan 1851 at the parish church of St George Bloomsbury, Middlesex, to Emily WATSON. The marriage was registered Mar qtr 1851 at St Giles District (ref original indexes). William was a bachelor of full age, profession Traveller, his residence being 5 Amelia Place, New Cross. Emily was a spinster of full age, her residence being 30 Great Russell St. Her father was John Watson, Gentleman. The witnesses were H S Watson (possibly her cousin Henry Sparkes Watson, or else a misprint for Sarah Susan) and E H Wood ie Edward Henry Wood, Emily's brother in law (All details from marriage certificate.) Emily may have been born in 1820, but the 1851 census gives 1825. See WATSON TREE for further information. Ref 1851 census. Kent, England. Parish of Deptford St Paul. Ecclesiastical Parish of St James. Registration District of Greenwich. Address is scribbled out. William H Growcock. Husband. Age 29. Commercial Traveller. Born Middlesex. Emily Growcock. Wife. Age 25. Born Herts, Buntingford. Lived at 7 Westbourne Park Rd, Paddington, London in 1852. William, Emily and Kate arrived in Victoria, Australia by unassisted passage on the vessel "Sussex" in Nov 1855. His occupation was Auctioneer, Accountant, Valuer (ref Kate's birth certificate) Hotelkeeper (ref his DC) [but not found in the Cole/Tetlow index of hotel licensees in Victoria]. Emily died 24 Dec 1857 at Windsor, Vic (Vic reg 6222), bur 25 Dec 1857 at St Kilda Cemetery, C of E B No 26. She died by accident, the cause being 'accidentally burnt' - Coroner, Melbourne. William gave permission in 1868 for the marriage of his daughter Kate aged 16 to Walter Henry Serle, and was a witness (ref her marriage cert). Marr (2) 1870 in Victoria (Vic reg 1031) to Emma BLUNDEN, born c1842. William died 11 Aug 1873 at Bendigo St, Prahran (Vic reg 7950), bur 13 Aug 1873 at St Kilda Cemetery, C of E B No 26. Emma died 1882 at Prahran, Victoria (Vic reg 6596). In Percival Serle's autobiography, he describes how he and his family spent from late 1884 to the end of 1885 in England and Europe. They made their headquarters with 'an aunt of my mother's, Mrs. Wood, their house was just outside the Harrow-Weald station on the London and North-Western railway about 11 miles from London...it was then lovely pastoral country'. The name 'Harrow' was used later for the Serle houses in Melbourne. Sarah Susan Watson (Mrs Wood) was Emily's sister. FROM WHOM ELIZABETH SHADE NEE GRIERSON IS DESCENDED.	IGI records Marriage Cert WATSON TREE 1851 census Kate's marriage cert William's death cert
		Child of Emily Watson:
	1.	Kate GROCOCK born 1852 at Paddington, London
		Child of Emma Blunden:
	2.	Alice GROCOCK born 1871 at Prahran, Victoria
4.		Ellen Hirst GROCOCK Bap 11 Jun 1828 at St Mary, Ealing, Middlesex, dau of Samuel and Susannah (as Ellen Hirst Groucock) (ref findmypast parish records). Ref 1841 census. Kent, England. Civil Parish of Greenwich St Alphage. Registration District of Brentford. Together with 40 other staff and pupils: Ellen Grocock. Age 10. Pupil. Not born in Kent. Ref 1851 census. Middlesex, England. Parish of Kensington. Ecclesiastical Parish of St Barnabas. Address: 7 Addison Tce, Kensington. Together with her parents: Ellen H. Gracock. Daur. U. Age 22. Born Brentford. [the writing is very obscure] The marriage is reg Dec qtr 1854 at Lambeth District of Ellen Hirst Grocock in FreeBMD (indexed incorrectly as Hurst), but unfortunately there are two couples and only one man is given, William Samuel Cockett, but it appears that he is not the husband. The marriage is not in London marriages or IGI.	1841 census 1851 census

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