Frances Hocken Mary Quick

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Good afternoon

Yesterday while roaming around the St Clare Cemetery at Penzance, I noted a faded monument lying horizontally on the ground.

The one inscription was reasonably hard to read until the sun came out and the camera caught the engraving quite well

It said - Frances Hocken Mary Quick - Forever with the Lord.

Immediately I wondered who this lady could have been.

But now I am wondering if there is actually a 'full stop' after the word Hocken and there are two females in the plot.

Does anyone know if the cemetery burial records are available for this cemetery?

Trinklady.

[Cornish Terrier]

I suspect this might be the St Clare Street Wesleyan in which case you might need to try the CRO. I don't see anything immediately in a FreeBMD search and nothing in OPC MIs or burials.

Is there any other information such as a date that you could read?

CT

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Good evening

No I was referring to the main Council cemetery on Nancealverne Road at St Clare.. it is a very big cemetery and has taken two full days to look around. There is a Wesley Church down the road at Heamoor with headstones but at the present time it is locked.

There is no other information on the stone and there never was any in my opinion.  Maybe a couple of strays from the Workhouse...  I have taken a very good photo but I do not have the cord to download it from the camera at present.

Trinklady

[Cornish Terrier]

That sounds like the Penzance General Cemetery in which case you could go to the office and ask to see the registers. If it is the General Cemetery as I think then I was able to look through the register when I was there back in 1994.
The other option is to check the Cornwall Record Office to see if registers have been deposited there.

CT

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CT

That sounds like the Penzance General Cemetery in which case you could go to the office and ask to see the registers. If it is the General Cemetery as I think then I was able to look through the register when I was there back in 1994.
The other option is to check the Cornwall Record Office to see if registers have been deposited there.

There are buildings there but as for an office I think maybe so in 1994, but no sign of people working there now.

The CRO does not have the burial registers.. they are held by the Council itself - according to the Council website.

I have posted a question on their website.

Trinklady

[Cornish Terrier]

It would be handy if the LDS had filmed that register and made it available. I copied what I wanted way back then but today there are so many more entries I would like to see.

CT

[jacob]

The Mary Quick in question was a Mary Cock who married James Thomas Quick in St Levan in 1817.
Mary was originally from Zennor and Mary and Thomas had five children.
Mary was 86 years old when she was buried 12 October 1881 in unconsecrated ground.

As for Frances Hocken she was 52 years old and was buried 15 February 1875 in the same plot.

[Cornish Terrier]

Thankyou Jacob - that all but closes off the file on another Mary Quick. And in the 1881 Census Mary was with her daughter Elizabeth Eve Quick who was a Lodging House keeper at 15 St Clare Street Penzance.

Can you tell me the source of your information? Have you seen the register itself or is the information accessible via another source I am not aware of?

Frances Hocken does not appear to have had any connection to Mary Quick. In 1871 she was an unmarried parlour maid to George and Anna Scobell at Poltair in Madron. She was then age 48 and had been born at Boscastle. In fact Frances was baptized at Forrabury 28th March 1823 to John Hocken, a cordwainer, and his wife Catherine.
I should think the parents of Frances would be John Hocken and Catherine Boddy who married at Tintagel 7th May 1804.

CT

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I can add that I visited the cemetery again today and there is no sign of life in any of the buildings that are on site now. The records are held by a CORMAC officer for the western cemeteries who is not on site. The Council do refer to the cemetery as the St Clare Cemetery at Penzance.

Trinklady

[jacob]

The source of the information was a CORMAC officer as Trinklady said in the last post.

[Cornish Terrier]

Great, thanks Jacob.