Birth: April-June 1842 North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, UK
Father: Isaac Grocock c1808-1872
Mother: Elizabeth Tow c1812-1897
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 31 March 1869 St Mary, Islington, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Mary Jane Backhouse c1835-1906
Death: April 1890 Camberwell, London, UK
Burial: 29 April 1890 Southwark, London, UK
Horace Backhouse Grocock 1872-1950
Edgar Charles Grocock 1875-1953
Harold Backhouse Grocock 1876-1915
Arthur Backhouse Grocock 1878-1964
Birth of Charles Grocock in FreeBMD in April-June 1842 in Boston (14 279).
In the 1851 census as Charles Growcock (sic - on the original) aged 9, born in North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, and living with his parents (Isaac and Eliza), three brothers (James, Timothy and Robert) and four sisters (Ann, Betsy, Charlotte and Mary) in Riverside, Billinghay, Lincolnshire.
I cannot identify him in the 1861 census but he was not living with his parents - there is a Charles Grocock aged 18, born in Swinehead, Lincolnshire and an agricultural labourer lodging in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. The image is nearly illegible.
Marriage of Charles Grocock and Mary Jane Backhouse in FreeBMD in January-March 1869 in Islington (1b 370).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the banns of Charles Grocock and Jane Backhouse on 28 March 1869 at St Mary, Islington, Islington. "The Year 1869 Page 18 [...] No. 88 Banns of Marriage between Charles Grocock, Bachelor of this Parish & Jane Backhouse, Spinster of Billinghay, Sleaford were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to say, 1st, on Sunday the 11 March [...] 2d, on Sunday the 21 March [...] 3d, on Sunday the 28 March".
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the marriage of Charles Grocock, father Isaac Grocock, and Mary Jane Backhouse on 31 March 1869 at St Mary, Islington. "Page 56 1869 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Islington. Charles Grocock of full age, a Bachelor and Schoolmaster of Billinghay, Sleaford, Lincoln, father Isaac Grocock, a farmer, and Mary Jane Backhouse of full age, a Spinster of 31 Manchester Terrace, father Moses John Backhouse, a Builder. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us John Backhouse and Jane Maria Bradley".
In the 1871 census as Charles Gracock (sic - on the original) aged 28, born in North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, a schoolmaster, and living with his wife (Mary J) in Billinghay Village, Lincolnshire.
His first son was born in Billinghay in 1872, and last three sons in Peckham from 1875 to 1878.
In the 1881 census as Charles Gracock (sic - in the index, Grocock on the original) aged 38, born in Rauceby, Lincolnshire, a teaching and writing master and living with his wife (Mary Jane), three sons (Arthur, Edgar Charles and Harold Backhouse) and two lodgers (Shatders aged 62, born in Holt Town ?, Norfolk, and a tea traveller, and Henry Cloid Bradley aged 36, born in Ipswich, Suffolk and a brokers clerk - a Henry Cloid Bradley Shalders was born in Ipswich in 1842) at 41 Hanover Street, Camberwell, London. The image is nearly illegible.
Death of Charles Grocock in FreeBMD in April-June 1890 aged 42 in Camberwell (1d 440). His age should be 48 - his wife was a widow living at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Camberwell in the 1891 census.
Entry in Ancestry Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 for Charles Grocock buried on 29 April 1890 in Southwark, London. Southwark included Camberwell.
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Charles Grocock born in April 1842 in Boston, Lincolnshire, parents Robert and M A Grocock (wrong parents), his marriage to Mary Jane Backhouse and his four children.
Charles Grocock was the father of Harold Backhouse Grocock, husband of Annie Elizabeth Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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