Richard Waldocke
(1633-1681)
Mercy
(1640-)
Roger Waldocke
(1664-1741)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Sarah Bawcocke

Roger Waldocke

  • Born: 1664, Ashwell, Hertfordshire England
  • Marriage (1): Sarah Bawcocke on 4 Feb 1691 in St Marys, Ware, Hertfordshire England 66
  • Died: 1741, Ashwell, Hertfordshire England at age 77
  • Buried: 18 Mar 1741, Ashwell, Hertfordshire England

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. & Dina Broughton who writes:
I have been very fortunate in being able to obtain a copy of the accounts of the Overseers of the Poor in Ashwell for the years from 1722 to 1752. In it I found that Roger and Sarah Waldock must have fallen on bad times as they got older and probably Roger was no longer able to work for, from 28th January 1739, they were receiving a handout of 2 shillings and sixpence from the Overseers. In a way this was similar to a pension today but whereas today everyone considers a pension a right and there is no shame attached to it, in 1739 there was a certain amount of shame. This was a weekly allowance for two people (widows only got 1 shilling). Even in those days it would have hardly kept body and soul together. Cheese, which seems to have been the staple diet, was 2½d a pound, pork and beef 3d a lb, eggs 1d, flour 7d, bacon 8d, jam 4d, sugar 3d (I am not sure of the quantities of the last five items and I have not found the price of bread).
Sarah died and was given a pauper's burial on 19th February 1739/40. Roger received the comfort of a "cap muffler" in the same week that he died. He was buried on 18th March 1740/41. He had continued to receive his 2 shillings and 6 pence. He does not seem to have had a pauper's funeral but his coffin (7/6) was paid for by the Overseers. I have no idea of how old either Sarah or Roger were when they died as nowhere have I found an age for them but Roger was referred to in the books as "Old Roger Waldock". (The reason for the two year dates for these burials is that England was at that time changing its calendar; the beginning of the year changing from March to January.)
The four sons of Roger and Sarah are mentioned in different capacities in the accounts. John has many mentions. He was apparently the church sexton. He was paid 2 shillings to bury someone and 7d to toll the bell. He was also a church warden for a short time. Roger (the younger) supplied the overseers with chair bottoms and cloth (cloath). The only mention that Thomas, our ancestor, gets is for paying a 2d in the £ tax on the rentable value of his property for the rates of the Overseers. His property was worth between £1 and £10. Richard is a very interesting case. In spite of having been the subject of a Settlement Order he seems to have flourished. He was made constable of the parish for which he was paid as much as £1. 0. 8. Later he is mentioned as paying the 2d and 6d tax on his house whose rent was valued at the princely sum of £155 a year - considerably more than Thomas's. Eventually he becomes an Overseer himself and for one year is in charge of the accounts. His spelling is original and through it one can almost hear how he spoke.

• connection. Ryan Noakes (1995)
His father is Richard Noakes (1964) who married Annette Ryall (1966)
Her father is Alexander Ryall (1937) who married Ruby Warner (1939)
Her father was Charles Warner (1913) who married Jenny Kitchener (1913)
Her father was Herbert Kitchener (1853)
His mother was Susan Kitchener (1830)
Her father was Benjamin Kitchener (1788)
His father was John Kitchener who married Ann Bailey (c1766)
Her father was Edward Bailey (1734) who married Sarah Waldock (c1734)
Her father was Richard Waldock (1699)
His father was Roger Waldocke (1664) & he also had Thomas Waldock (1703)
He had Francis Waldock (1726)
He had Thomas Waldock (1750)
He had Thomas Waldock (1786)
He had Sarah Ann Waldock (1843) who married James Moss (c1846)
They had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864) who married Frederick Larkinson (1865)
They had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)


Roger married Sarah Bawcocke, daughter of Richard Bawcocke and Mercy, on 4 Feb 1691 in St Marys, Ware, Hertfordshire England.66 (Sarah Bawcocke was born about 1664 in Westmill, Hertfordshire England, christened on 7 Aug 1664 in Westmill, Hertfordshire England, died in 1740 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire England and was buried on 18 Feb 1740 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire England.)


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