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Marriage: Children:
  1. Frank Step HOCKADAY: Birth: 31 MAY 1856 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: 25 AUG 1924 in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England

  2. Emily HOCKADAY: Birth: 16 JAN 1859 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England.

  3. James Henry HOCKADAY: Birth: 18 JUN 1861 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: 27 DEC 1902 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  4. Herbert HOCKADAY: Birth: 25 MAY 1863 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: AFT 1903

  5. William Lewis HOCKADAY: Birth: 04 APR 1865 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England.

  6. Laura Ann HOCKADAY: Birth: 01 FEB 1867 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: 22 MAY 1895 in Bude, Stratton, Cornwall, England

  7. Cecil HOCKADAY: Birth: 08 JAN 1869 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England.

  8. Bessie Theresa HOCKADAY: Birth: 27 SEP 1870 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England.

  9. Rosa HOCKADAY: Birth: 24 MAY 1872 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: AFT 1952

  10. Albert Edward HOCKADAY: Birth: 20 FEB 1875 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: 26 MAR 1875 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England

  11. Percy HOCKADAY: Birth: 16 DEC 1876 in Delabole St Teath, Trigg, Cornwall, England. Death: 30 JUN 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Sources
1. Title:   Frank Step HOCKADAY, Grandfather of Colin Wilton-Davies, his notes.
Author:   Frank Step Hockaday
Publication:   Name: Before 1924, unpublished notes, written in Highbury, Lydney, Gloucestershire;
2. Title:   Richard & June Ross, 1871 Cornwall Census (KindredKonnection.com)
3. Title:   QinetiQ, 1901 Census of the British Isles (Public Record Office www.census.pro.gov.uk)
Page:   Session 2458119 of 3/9/2002
4. Title:   Monumental Inscriptions listed by Cornwall FHS on card index in Truro. (Cornwall Family History Society, 5 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2RS.)
5. Title:   Monumental Inscriptions listed by Cornwall FHS on card index in Truro. (Cornwall Family History Society, 5 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2RS.)
Page:   card 23
6. Title:   Ancestry.co.uk, Ancestry online [Ancestry.co.uk., accessed 2006
Page:   HO107/151/5, Folio 13 Page 18
7. Title:   Ancestry.co.uk, Ancestry online [Ancestry.co.uk., accessed 2006
8. Title:   LDS, CD-ROM library of 1881 census of England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Royal Navy (LDS)
Page:   CD-ROM published by LDS Church
9. Title:   QinetiQ, 1901 Census of the British Isles (Public Record Office www.census.pro.gov.uk)
Page:   Session 2458119 of 3/9/2002
10. Title:   QinetiQ, 1901 Census of the British Isles (Public Record Office www.census.pro.gov.uk)
Page:   RG13 Piece 2175 Folio 38 Page 15
11. Title:   , compiler, <i>Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1893</i> (With "Practical Family History", Jan 2006: S & N Genealogy Supplies, 2006)
Page:   p1282 (pdf 288)
12. Title:   QinetiQ, 1901 Census of the British Isles (Public Record Office www.census.pro.gov.uk)
Page:   Session 2458119 of 3/9/2002
13. Title:   newspaper
Page:   Golden Wedding

Notes
a. Note:   Founder and Director of Delabole Slate Quarry, Cornwall.
 First chairman of Delabole Parish Council, elected at it's first
 meeting, 13 Dec 1894.
 Interview in Cornish and Devon Post, Saturday 27 July 1929. 'Bude's
 "Grand Old Man." [A Special Interview]
 The Editor and Staff of the Cornish and Devon Post have received the
 following message in printed script on a dainty folder "Mr. Job
 Hockaday wishes to thank you for your remembrance of his hundredth
 birthday. The many kind wishes of his friends helped to make a happy
 day.-7, Morwenna, Bude, July, 1929." - We should like to take the
 opportunity of giving some further information to our readers
 concerning this respected local centenarian. It is contained in a
 report of an interview had with Mr. Hockaday by a member of our staff
 some time since but when Mr. Hockaday was within measurable distance
 of centenarian honours. This narrative has hitherto remained
 unpublished.
 Mr. Hockaday has defied the doctors with regard to the state of his
 health on three occasions. It was in the prime of life that he gave
 the medicos their first rebuff. A desire on his part to insure his
 life led to a lengthy, and evidently a thorough, examination by four
 insurance company doctors, and he was eventually rejected. Twice
 since, in later life, doctors have given him up - once, when he had a
 heart attack, and again when he had a clot of blood in the veins and
 was in bed for five months, and that was some 40 years ago, but he
 still survives and has passed his hundredth birthday.
 What is the secret of his longevity? - Mr. Hockaday gives several
 secondary causes. He attaches importance to a saying in a newspaper
 that he read in youth: "It is only cold steel that cuts," which he
 interpreted to mean that one should keep one's temper, and that in
 losing it nothing is gained and much lost. During the 48 years Mr.
 Hockaday was at Delabole, he never remembers giving way to temper.
 Another reason he gives is "A reasonable life." To look at life from
 the first couple of decades, seemed to him tremendously long; but now
 Mr. Hockaday says it does not seem to be a long time.
 I well remember our last chat and I well remember, too, with what a
 brightened countenance he told me his age, of the tricks his health
 played on the doctors, and the many events in his personal history.
 I shall always bear in mind the picture that the sitting room of 7,
 Morwenna-terrace presented that sunny morning: My friend, in a huge
 arm chair, was apparently deep in thought. He stirred from his chair
 to greet me, and his eyes twinkled behind a pair of glasses in his
 delight to have the opportunity of chatting with a newspaperman and a
 Delabolian, with which town he was so intimately connected and of
 which he was so fondly proud.
 Our conversation was rather difficult to get on with. Mr. Hockaday
 is old and I am young, and the immediate and pressing subjects in
 which I was interested had not stirred my friend to any large measure
 of interest, for he had not attended a public meeting for 14 years.
 Thus he was not in a position to give an opinion on my query as to
 whether he thought the present age was degenerating. He gave
 journalism rather a hard knock when he replied that the world was so
 changed and the papers now-a-days wrote so much and so much
 contradictorily, that he could not form an opinion. However, we managed to spend a delightful time together. We chatted for some time on
 different subjects, the conversation veering round to phases of
 politics - Liberalism, Communism, the Labour Party and Trades
 Unionism. Mr. Hockaday, I might add, soon got to work on these -
 supporting the first-named and scorning the last three.
 Mr. Hockaday has always been a staunch Liberal, at least from the
 time when he knew of Liberal principles. When he was young only about
 a couple of papers reached Bude about every few months and he did not
 know very much about Liberalism. But when he had opportunity of
 knowing it, there was none more keen than he. He well remembered the
 first election in Northern Cornwall in 1852 - "when Bude was a
 village," he added with a smile;- and from that time he took a keen
 interest in election affairs, taking the chair at several meetings
 when the Liberal candidate, a Mr. White, of London, was present. Mr.
 Hockaday has never had any room for Conservatism. Conservatism, in his
 opinion, was mixed up so much to-day that one could call it, if one
 liked to do so, Conservative-Liberalism. Turning to Communism, Mr.
 Hockaday said he hardly knew the meaning of it. His beliefs were not
 with the Labour Party because "every man is for himself, go where you
 will."
 He then related to me his connection - not very intimate he admitted
 - with newspaperdom. Mr. Hockaday was at one time the Bude
 correspondent to The Plymouth Journal and Mercury and in later years
 he wrote several paragraphs for the present Plymouth daily. He also
 sent many paragraphs of local news to The Cornish and Devon Post, of
 which he is a regular reader, when the late Lydra Powell was editor of
 this paper.
 Being a Delabolian myself, and Mr. Hockaday having been a resident
 there for a good many years, we were quite "at home" on the subject of
 Delabole, past and present. Mr. Hockaday was able to supply me with
 enough "copy" on Delabole during his stay there to fill a book, and I
 could supply an equal quantity on present Delabole. He well remembers
 the opening of the Wesleyan chapel at Delabole.
 The "chat" was wound up on the subject of religion. Mr. Hockaday is
 a Wesleyan and his views on whist drives and dancing are very
 pronounced. "Whist drives and dancing," he told me, "are not
 consistent for Wesleyans to practise and I consider that young persons
 ought not to be out late at night, especially at such a revel as the
 latter. If women had to dance with women and men with men and if the
 dances were held in the afternoon instead of at night, there would not
 be so many dancers." E.S.P.
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b. Note:   in Scorsham.
c. Note:   card 23
 Memory of LAURA wife of WH BARTLETT d. May 22nd 1895 a. 28 yrs. also
 of her parents ANNA MARIA HOCKADAY d. Sept 7th 1910 a. 75 yrs. and of
 JOB HOCKADAY d. Nov. 4th 1931 a. 102 yrs.
d. Note:   In "Shernit"? household of Thomas Banbury [uncle]. Age 11.
e. Note:   Parish St Teath; district 12; schedule 286
 Head Job HOCKADAY, mar, 40. Mgr-Slate Quarry, b Launcells
 wife Anne M, mar, 36, b Devonport
 Son Frank S, 14, b St Teath
 Dau Emily, 12, scholar, b St Teath
 Son Jas H, 9, scholar, b St Teath
 Son Herbert, 7, scholar, b St Teath
 Son Wm D, 5, scholar, b St Teath
 Dau Louisa A, 4, b St Teath
 Son Cecil, 2, b St Teath
 Dau Bessie T, 6m, b St Teath
 Mother-in-Law Isabella A STEP, widowed, 64, annuitant, b Jacobstow
 Servant Mary J HARVEY,unmar, 18, b St Teath
f. Note:   Dwelling: Windsor House. Census Place: St Teath, Cornwall, England.
 Source: FHL Film 1341546 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2273 Folio 144 Page 16
 Job HOCKADAY, mar, 51, M, Lansallos, Cornwall, England. Rel: Head Occ:
 Agent
 Anna M HOCKADAY, mar, 47, F, Devonport, Devon, England. Wife
 James H HOCKADAY, unmar, 19, M, St Teath, Cornwall, England. Son,
 Draper
 Herbert HOCKADAY, 17, M, St Teath. Son, (Clerk) Accountant
 Cecil HOCKADAY, 2, M, St Teath. Son, Scholar
 Rosa HOCKADAY, 8, F, St Teath. Daur, Scholar
 Percy HOCKADAY, 4, M, St Teath. Son, Scholar
 Isabella A SHOP, W, 74, F, Jacobstow, Cornwall, England. Mother In
 Law, Independent
g. Note:   RG 13/2175 .... p15, schedule 76, 5 Morwenna Terrace.
 Head Job Hockaday, mar, 71, retired Manager of Slate Quarry, bn Cornwall Launcells
 Wife Anna Do, mar, 66, bn Devon Devonport
 Son Frank Do, mar, 44, Colliery Proprietor, employer, bn Cornwall Bude [!]
 daur Bessie Do, single, 30, bn Cornwall St Teath
 serv Louisa Kear, single, 20, ***** Servant Domestic, bn Cornwall St Teath.
h. Note:   Married at Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, Plymouth, by Rev. John H.Lord.


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