Of the 16 children of my great-great-grandparents James and Alice STOCKING, I have managed to find marriage and/or military records for several of them.Alice Caroline STOCKING was born in 1875 (registered St Olave, March quarter), a few months after

My great-great-grandfather James Thomas STOCKING and his wife Alice Mary, nee WALES, married on 29 November 1874 at St John's Church, Walworth, Surrey. A few years ago one of their grandchildren contacted my father asking for information about th

Emma was the third of the 16 (or 21?) children of Alice and James STOCKING. She was born in around 1877-8 in Bermondsey according to the 1881 and 1891 censuses. There is a birth index entry for an Emma Mary A STOCKING in the March quarter of 1878, i

This MyRoots weblog has succeeded in attracting another contact, this time for the SPORNE line. The SPORNEs feature quite a long way back in my family tree, but I find I have a fourth cousin twice removed who still bears the surname and is desc

I'm not sure why but I just thought I'd type in "Thomas Stocking" in the Google search box and found at least two mentions of him as a fine plasterer who contributed not only to the decoration of Corsham Court in Wiltshire but also Royal Fo

Most of the people in my family tree - or those I've found so far - have fairly ordinary occupations (with many bricklayers and bricklayer's labourers, and many more agricultural labourers). My great-grandfather James Stocking was described as a 'la

Alice Mary is proving elusive. She was the wife of James Thomas Stocking who was born in Southwark on 15 June 1853. They married in St John's Church, Waterloo, Lambeth on Sunday November 29th, 1874 and were my paternal great-great grandparents. A