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"Thomas COCKCROFT, b Leeds, Yorkshire 1806, d Port Alfred 30.11.1881 aged 75 years (buried at Shaw Park); 1820 settler, farmer at Shaw Park, in father's wagon business in Grahamstown; m1 Port Alfred, 3.1.1831, Dorothy SIMPSON, b London .4.1810, d 13.12.1858, Myrtle Grove, Bathurst (buried at Grahamstown); 1820 settler - daughter of Thomas Simpson, carpenter, 1820 settler with Cock's party on the "Weymouth" and Ann Simpson; m2 Clumber 13.11.1861 Ann MOUNCEY, b ca 1820 (m1 Edwin Hewson), d 24.4.1851) Thomas Cockcroft was Commandant, Clumber Station during the 1846-7 war, being frequently in action. He became a Municipal Commissioner of Grahamstown in 1849. (Morse-Jones, 102) b1c1 Mary Ann COCKCROFT, b Shaw Park ca 1832, d (living in 1883); m 12.5.1853 Samuel HUNT b1c2 Ann Shepherd (Sheppard) COCKCROFT ("Annie"), b Shaw Park 23.12.1833, d ; m 18.4.1861 William Wilberforce SMAILES, b (Father: Purdon SMAILES) b1c3 Thomas Aiken COCKCROFT, b Grahamstown 2.12.1835, d Myrtle Grove, Bathurst 13.2.1907 aged 71 years; wagonmaker; m1 Mary Jane SPARKS, b Grahamstown 26.5.1838 (Parents: William SPARKS, b , d 25.3.1869, and Isabella Sparks ; m2 Shaw Park ca 1894/5 Elizabeth Ann HILL, b .3.1852, d Grahamstown 26.11.1949 aged 97 years 8 months (Father Thomas HILL) b1c4 William COCKCROFT, b Grahamstown 14.5.1838 d Victoria East 27.6.1912; farmer; m Grahamstown Elizabeth KING, b Grahamstown .8.1840, d Kingston, Victoria East 3.4.1915; 1820 Settler family (her parents Thomas Frances KING and Sarah King) b1c4d1 Dorothy Harriett Louisa COCKCROFT, b 1862; m George KNOTT, b b1c4d2 Percy Charles COCKCROFT, b 1864, d Alice, Victoria East district 29.1.1933 aged 68 years 9 months; farmer; m Wesley, Peddie district, Amy Elizabeth STIRK, b b1c4d3 Emily Sarah Cordelia COCKCROFT ("Mary"?), b 1866; m Alex LLOYD, b (See Mitford-Barberton, 185)" b1c4d4 Stephen COCKCROFT, b 1867; d baby b1c4d5 Amy Eleanor Prime COCKCROFT, b 1872; m Montague White STIRK
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