Anthony lived with his parents, James and Ann, and his brother George, at the far eastern end of the parish, at New Church Ridings. The cottage is circled in blue. In 1847, the time of the Tithe Apportionment, it was divided in two. In the other half lived William Grimes and his family. It was part of the Ridge estate, owned by William Bengough.
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George, born in 1826, had been christened in Wotton under Edge. At that time, James was recorded as being a weaver, but, by the time of the ’41 Census, he was a labourer and, at the next Census, a marine pensioner. Anthony was baptised in North Nibley, when he was 16 – perhaps it took the vicar a long time to find him in such a remote spot.
In ’51, James, Ann and Anthony (with no profession) were still living at the Ridings. The last record that we have for Anthony was that he was witness at the second marriage of his brother George, in 1854.
It’s interesting that Anthony’s elder brother, George, is illiterate, while Anthony has a passable signature.
Anthony emigrated to New Zealand soon afterwards. In the Littleton Times, it was announced that the Cashmere had arrived on the 23rd October 1855, and Anthony Hancock was one of the passengers, but the same paper recorded that he died at Timaru in September 1857.
from Lyttleton Times 31st October 1860
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY
In the matter of the estate of Anthony Hancock, formerly of Timaru, labourer, deceased:
Also of the estate (here) of Ann Hancock formerly of Wotton under Edge, in the county of Gloucestershire, in England, widow, late mother of the above and also deceased.
Notice-pursuant to the Rules of this Honourable Court, the Creditors of the above-named persons respectively, are required to come in, and prove their debts
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