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Nobody has ever found the marriage of Robert and Mary Hockley and thus we don't know what her maiden name was, but this couple brought up several children, all baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Great Dunmow:
- Robert Hockley bap. 20 Apr 1755
- Mary Hockley bap. 23 Oct 1757
- Daniel Hockley bap. 21 Jan 1760
- Elizabeth Hockley bap. 28 Dec 1763
- William Hockley bap. 16 Feb 1766
- Mary Hockley bap. 28 Jan 1770 [1]
[1] Why would anyone name another child Mary in 1770, when their daughter Mary, born in 1757, was still very much alive? The child baptised in 1770 is certainly listed on the baptism record as being the child of Robert and Mary Hockley and there doesn't seem to be any other Robert and Mary Hockley in the parish at that time, but is this really their child, or is it possible that daughter Mary gave birth to an illegitimate child at 13? There's no real way of confirming, but my money's on the latter, with the grandparents baptising the child as their own to bring her up, given the real mother's young age. There don't appear to be any further records, so the infant may not have survived.
Robert Hockley was buried on 25 Oct 1796, aged 73 (which would suggest a year of birth of 1723). The burial record gives his occupation as Weaver.
Mary Hockley died at 88 and was buried on 1 Jan 1815.
- Mary Hockley b. 1757 married William Lammas of the Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel at St Mary the Virgin, Great Dunmow on 13 Apr 1779. There are no records to substantiate this, either in Dunmow, or London, but I believe the William Lammas apprenticed to Robert Hockley, Tailor and Draper in 1799 could have been their son.
- Elizabeth Hockley b. 1763 married John Moss on 9 Apr 1782. They appear to have had a son William Moss bap. 20 Feb 1788.