One of Ari’s 6x great-grandfathers was William Dancocks. He was born in about 1756 in Kempsey, Worcestershire, the son of Elizabeth Dancocks, and baptised on 16 October 1761 at St Mary’s Church. There are no records of William until his marriage in 1790 to Nancy Martin. There is a record of a William Dancocks being sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for poaching, but the criminal register gives his age as 25, so maybe a grandson? Worcester Journal, 9 March 1837, Findmypa

One of Ari’s 6x great-grandmothers was Ann (Nancy) Martin, who was born in 1770, probably at or near Kempsey in Worcestershire. This reflected arch carries a footpath over the flooded Hatfield Brook near Kempsey church. I haven’t found a record of her baptism yet, so I don’t know who her parents were. In April 1790, she married William Dancocks, an agricultural labourer, at the church of St Mary in Kempsey. Ann and William had seven children: William, James, Thomas, Charlotte

Sarah Dancocks was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She was born in 1803/4 in Kempsey, Worcestershire. On 11 October 1824 she married John Crump, an agricultural labourer. According to the Worcester Chronicle of 27 Sept 1865, a pig that John owned was being driven home by Sarah, when a man called Charles Burroughs drove over the pig, breaking its back. The case was also reported in the Worcester Journal on 30 Sept 1865 (both papers courtesy of Findmypast). John Crump claimed £1.6s