Henry Nock

  Research Notes:

Helen Sasia notes:
HENRY had trouble with his colliery too as he was prosecuted for causing subsidence to the road under Coxton Bridge and had a large fine to pay. Apart from details of his will which was made in 1835, the year before he died, there is very little known about him and his wife. He left all his possessions to her and made both his wife and his eldest son executers to the will which was proved in November 1836. There has not been any trace of what happened to his wife after that date.

  Medical Notes:

Helen Sasia notes:
HENRY NOCK grew up to become
a coal master in Halesowen and he married Elizabeth Dixon the daughter of John and Margaret Dixon. Elizabeth had a sister called Anne who also married into the Nock family, marrying Edward Nock who may well have been Henry's cousin but this has yet to be researched. What we do know about Anne and Edward are that they had two children, a boy named John who did not reach manhood and another son they named Henry Dixon Nock (for our purposes Henry Dixon 3^rd) who died in 1870 aged 49.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. ⁷⁸³ DonaldFMeek (Ancestry)'s links to me are as follows:
Donald Meek (c1930)
His parents were Joseph Meek (1896) & Florence Stone (1898)
His father was John Meek (1868) who married Jane Brotherton (1864)
Her father was John Brotherton (1834)
His father was Samuel Brotherton (1816) who married Harriett Simmonds (c1815)
Her father was Charles Simmonds (1793) who married Elizabeth Nock (1791)
Her father was John Nock (1764)
His father was William Nock (1740)
His father was William Nock (1717)
His father was William Nock (1691) & he also had Tobias Nock (1728)
He had Henry Nock (1773)
He had Ellen Nock (1809) who married Thomas Davis (c1805)
He had Joseph Davies (1852)
He had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• connection. ⁷⁸⁴ Heather Graham's links to me are as follows:

Heather Graham . . .
Is linked in some way to . . .
John Nock (1642) who married Jone Wilits (1634)
They had William Nock (1667)
He had William Nock (1691)
He had Tobias Nock (1728)
He had Henry Nock (1773)
He had Ellen Nock (1809) who married Thomas Davis (c1805)
He had Joseph Davies (1852)
He had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Henry married Elizabeth Dixon, daughter of John Dixon and Margaret Clarke, on 15 Apr 1793 in St Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire England. (Elizabeth Dixon was born on 14 Dec 1777 in Halesowen, West Midlands England and was christened on 16 Jan 1778 in Oldbury, Shropshire England.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• fact. St Martin in the Bull Ring
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The church of St Martin in the Bull Ring (grid reference SP073866) in Birmingham 5, England is a parish church of the Church of England. It is the original parish church of Birmingham and stands between the Bull Ring shopping centre and the markets.
The church is a Grade II* listed building. The current rector is the Revd Canon Stewart W. Jones.
St Martin in the Bullring Original church
The present Victorian church was built on the site of a 13th-century predecessor, which was documented in 1263. The church was enlarged in medieval times and the resulting structure consisted of a lofty nave and chancel, north and south aisles and a northwest tower with spire.
In 1547, although no record is kept to indicate when the first clock appears in Birmingham, during this year the King's Commissioners report that the Guild of the Holy Cross are responsible "ffor keeping the Clocke and the Chyme" at a cost of four shillings and four pence a year at St Martin's Church. The next recorded mention of a clock is in 1613. The earliest known clock makers in the town arrived in 1667 from London.
In 1690, the churchwardens "dressed the church in brick". All was cased in brick with the exception of the spire.
John Cheshire rebuilt 40 feet of the spire in 1781, which was strengthened by an iron spindle running up its centre for a length of 105 feet. It was secured to the sidewalls at every ten feet by braces. In 1801, several metres from the top of the spire were replaced after they were found to have decayed. The tops of the four pinnacles surrounding the main spire were also rebuilt. By 1808, the spire had been struck by lightning three times.
In 1853, the brick casing was removed from the tower by Philip Charles Hardwick, who added the open-air pulpit. The church also contained an organ, the reedwork of which had been done by John Snetzler. However, the pipes were found to be ineffective due to their proximity to the church roof and walls.
In 1875, John Thackray Bunce published a book, History of Old St. Martin's, Birmingham, illustrated with paintings by Allen Edward Everitt.
Current church
In 1873, the church was demolished and rebuilt by architect J. A. Chatwin, preserving the earlier tower and spire. During the demolition, medieval wall paintings and decorations were discovered in the chancel, including one showing the charity of St Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar. Two painted beams were also found behind the plaster ceiling.
The exterior is built of rockfaced Grimshill stone. The interior is of sandstone with an open timber roof, which shows the influence of the great hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall. The beams are decorated with fine tracery and end in large carvings of angels. The roof weights 93 tons (94.5 tonnes), spans 22 ft (6.7m) over the 100 ft (30.4m) long nave and is 60 ft (18.2m) high.
The Victorian floor tiles are by Minton and display the quartered arms of the de Bermingham family.
Dimensions
From east to west the length of the church is 155 ft., including the chancel, the arch of which rises to 60 ft.; the width, including nave (25 ft.) and north and south aisles, is 67 ft.; at the transepts the width is 104 ft.
Windows
The South Transept has a Burne-Jones window, made by William Morris in 1875. This window was taken down for safe keeping the day before a World War II bomb dropped beside the church on 10 April 1941, destroying all remaining windows. The West window is a 1954 copy of the Henry Hardman 1875 window destroyed in the Blitz.