The Willcock(s) Family in Devon

This page lists those members of the Willcock family whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. In our line the usual spelling is Willcock, which is what we use here, but some branches preferred Willcocks and other spellings appear in earlier records. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.

Our Willcock ancestors lived in Devon, in and around Buckland Monachorum. Several generations of Willcocks can be found in the records for Buckland Monachorum, although the name also occurs in other nearby parishes. The earlier generations in our tree came from Sheepstor. Although very few records survive from before 1691, we believe that we have traced the line back to Simon Willcock of Sheepstor. Many of the maternal lines have also been traced in Buckland Monachorum and the surrounding area. Later generations spread out into other parts of Devon, and one branch moved to Manchester.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records. All the places named below are in Devon unless otherwise indicated.

We also have a second Willcock page which lists members of other Willcock families who lived in the same part of west Devon. Some of these we believe to be connected to our own Willcock tree, but their lives have not been researched in detail. Others may possibly be related, but we have not yet found the link.

1. Children of Walter Willcock and Ann Barter

2. Children of Walter Willcock and Mary Morrell (see table 1 above)

3. Children of John Willcock and Mary Creber (see table 2 above)

4. Children of William Willcock and Ann Dawe (see table 3 above)

5. Children of Walter Willcock and Mary Gill (see table 3 above)

6. Children of James Willcock and Jenny Seccombe (see table 3 above)

7. Children of Simon Willcock and Mary Mill (see table 3 above)

8. Children of Richard Willcock and Sarah Hake (see table 3 above)

9. Child of Joseph Dawe Willcock and Mary Gillard (see table 4 above)

10. Children of Henry Willcock and Jane Oxenham (see table 5 above)

11. Children of Ambrose Willcock and Jane West (see table 4 above)

12. Children of Simon Willcock and Mary Ann Gloyn (see table 6 above)

13a. Children of George Willcock and Henrietta Bennett (see table 8 above)

13b. Children of George Willcock and Louisa Kate Pink (see table 8 above)

14. Children of Edwin Willcock and Helen Drysdale Melville (see table 6 above)

15. Children of Edgar Willcock and Elizabeth Bevan (see table 6 above)

16. Children of Sampson Willcock and Mary Ann Dutton (see table 8 above)

17. Children of William Henry Willcock and Ellen Smalley (see table 6 above)

18. Child of John Willcock and Kerenhappuch Hulyer (see table 6 above)

19. Children of James Willcock and Sarah Turner (see table 12 above)

20. Children of Edgar Gloyn Willcock and Caroline Gay (see table 12 above)

21. Child of William Henry Willcock and Annie L Linfield (see table 15 above)

22. Children of Harold S Willcock and Ada Louise Edward (see table 17 above)

23. Children of Ambrose Willcock and Mary Elizabeth James (see table 11 above)

24. Children of Joseph Henry Willcock and Cicely Toop (see table 11 above)

25. Children of Clarence S Willcock and Annie M Kenworthy (see table 17 above)

26. Child of William H S Willcock and Ethel M Mousell (see table 17 above)

27. Children of Reginald Willcock and Elsie Mary Hepburn (see table 17 above)