Saturday, June 27, 2015

Surname Saturday -- MOORECOCK (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1129 who is  Mary MOORECOCK (1625-1694) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this MOORECOCK family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

282.  Samuel Brown (1686-1739)
283.  Ruth Young (1688-1768)

564.  George Brown (1658-1721)
565.  Mehitable Knowles (1653-1721)

1128.  William Brown, born about 1624 in England; died 07 April 1694 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 16 July 1649 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
1129.  Mary Moorecock, born about 1625 in Kent, England; died after 1694 in probably Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of William Brown and Mary Moorecock are:
*  Mary Brown (1650-????).
*  George Brown (1652-1721), married 1674 Mehitable Knowles (1653-1721)
*  William Brown (1654-????).
*  Samuel Brown (1656-1691), married 1682 Martha Harding (1662-1692).
*  Mercy Brown (1658-????).
*  John Brown (1662-1719), married (1) 1689 Sarah ????; (2) 1696 Isabel Mathewson (????-1719).
*  James Brown (1662-1732), married 1691 (Mary Harris (1671-1736).

2258.  Henry Moorecock, born in Smarden, Kent, England; died before 1625 in Kent, England.  He married 04 June 1616 in St. Margaret's, Canterbury, Kent, England.
2259.  Audria Cork, born about 1590 in Egerton, Kent, England; died before December 1638 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Henry Moorecock and Audria Cork are:
*  Bennet Moorecock (1619-????).
*  Nicholas Moorecock (1621-????)
*  Mary Moorecock (1625-1694), married 1649 William Brown (1624-1694).

Information about this Moorecock family was obtained from:

Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration:  Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1999-2011), Volume V, pages 147-148, Mary Morecock sketch.

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