William Hill Adcock and Annie Dear

On Whitechapel Road, London
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William Hill Adcock, second son of James Adcock and Mary Hill, married Anne Dear (bap. 16 Jun 1844), daughter of Stephen and Catherine Dear, at Christ Church, Watney Street, St George in the East in 1864.

William and Annie had thirteen children: 

1. Annie Eliza Adcock born 1865 in St George in the East
2. Mary Elizabeth Adcock born 1868 in Shoreditch
3. Louisa Catherine Adcock born 1869 in Whitechapel
4. William James Adcock born 1870 in Whitechapel (died 1872, aged 1)
5. Flora Adcock born 1872 in Whitechapel
6. Minnie Adcock born 1874 in Whitechapel
7. Ada Alice Adcock born 1876 in Whitechapel
8. Charles William Adcock born 1877 in Whitechapel (died 1878, aged 0)
9. Albert Henry Adcock born 1878 in Whitechapel
10. Walter Charles Adcock born 1880 in Whitechapel
11. William Ernest Adcock born 1882 in Whitechapel (died 1883, aged 0)
12. Emily Marie Adcock born 1884 in West Ham (died 1886, aged 2)
13. Edwin John Adcock born 1891 in Dartford

In 1871, living in Whitechapel, were William Adcock (30) Tobacconist Shopman, wife Annie Adcock (26) birthplace Winterslow, Wiltshire; Annie (5); Louisa (2) and William (0). Mary Elizabeth, then 3, was not listed (staying elsewhere?). 

In 1881, at 4 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, we find William Adcock (40), Manager to Tobacconist; Annie (36); Mary E (13), Louisa (11), Flora (8), Minnie (6), Ada (5), Albert (2) and Walter (0). 

In 1891, living in Victoria Street, Erith, Kent, were William Adcock (50) then employed as a Machinist. Living with him were wife Annie (46), Louisa (21), Albert (12), Walter (11) and Edwin (0).

And in 1901, still in Victoria Street, we find William Adcock (60) a Machine Minder in a Gun Works - presumably the Vickers Works, Erith - with wife Annie (56), Albert (22), Walter (20) and Edwin (10). 

Annie Adcock died, in Dartford, in 1902, aged 58.

Dartford Union Workhouse
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In 1911, William Adcock (70) was an inmate at Dartford Union Workhouse.

William Adcock died in 1920, in Bromley, Kent, aged 79.