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From: "GarryHooker" <>
Subject: [CON-GEN] Re: John Hocker
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:46:15 +1200
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Hi Chuck- thank you for your message. Great to hear from you. Although my
understanding was that the Cornish Hockers really are Hookers (as rendered
and interpreted by good Cornish tongues and ears), I don't doubt what you
say. Certainly, there seem to have been a number of different Hocker and
Hooker families (like the IGI, records for my own family use both versions)
in Cornwall.

My own family seems to be principally connected with St Breock where there
are Hocker/Hooker wills back to the 1550s and Hocker marriages since1576.
Given that one of those early Hockers was the vicar of St Minver and St
Breock was a peculiar of the Bishop of Exeter, I have always felt it likely
(has not been proven) that this family is an offshoot of the Hooker alias
Vowell family of Exeter - as was the Hooker family of St Ewe, Cornwall (has
been proven).

To confuse the position further, I also understand that some of the German
Hockers, who migrated to America, anglicised their surnames to Hooker.

Interested to see the possibility of your John HOCKER enduring servitude.
According to the book "Devon Worthies" by Robert HOOKER, zeal for the
Protestant cause led some Hookers to join in Monmouth's ill fated rebellion.
Those who escaped the scaffold at Exeter ended their lives as slaves in
Barbados.

There is a P.C.C. will dated 14 March 1663 (proved 27 May 1665) of a Ralph
HOOKER of Barbadoes which mentions his cousins Edward HOOKER of Chilcomb
(Hampshire), John HOOKER "now residing in Barbadoes" and James WOOD merchant
of London. Mention also is made of the testator's young cousin Peter BENNETT
son of Richard BENNETT (which Peter "is my own sister's son") of Salem 1636
later of Boston died 1677.

Although it probably is a long shot that the Barbadoes John HOOKER has
anything to do with your own line, given migrations from Barbadoes to the
States his existence probably is worth mentioning.

Happy to keep a look out for you of any John HOCKER/HOOKER in your time
frame and let you know when one surfaces.
Best wishes,

Garry Hooker (in Aotearoa/New Zealand)
CFHS 11680

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----- Original Message -----
From: charles hocker <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: John Hocker


> Hi Garry, just saw your posting in the Hocker forum. My family line is
> from a John Hocker, born about 1635 in the Cornwall area, and sent to the
> Maryland colony in 1647. It was possible that he was kidnapped, and sold
> into service. Do you have any knowledge of this early Hockers in the
> Cornwall area. Since he was born about 1635, I figure his dad was born
> about 1600 or earlier. Apparently these Hockers came to Cornwall about
> 1566, and were working for the Fugger family of Augsburg, Bavaria. You
> mention a Lang. That is German. Hocker is German. So we may be related.
> Please get in touch with me. I am still looking for "our" John Hocker's
> parents, and so-on. Great to hear from you. If in the past your name was
> spelled Hocker, then we are connected. Chuck Hocker, Brooksville,
Florida.
>

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