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THE FAMILY HISTORY.    

Tracing back through the male line, and Starting with my Father, William George Barcock:

Contents
1. WILLIAM GEORGE BARCOCK - my father
2. WILLIAM GEORGE BARCOCK - my Grandfather
3. JOHN BARCOCK - my GreatGrandfather

1. WILLIAM GEORGE BARCOCK - my father
Born February 18, 1901 in Northampton England.
Died August 18, 1981, cremated remains at St. Michael's and All Angels Church.

Married Alice Beale on August 17, 1929 at The Parish Church, Northampton England.

<At the Church       <Here they are before being married with the car Dad drove.

Children;
1.1 John Barcock, myself, b. October 2, 1939
1.2 Muriel Barcock, my sister, b. April 20, 1932
Brief Biography.
My Father lived with his family at 46 Clarence Avenue, Northampton, until he married my Mother, Alice Beale, and moved to a new house, 6, Highfield Road, on the then northern outskirts of the town in the Kingsley district. he continued to live there all his life until he died in St. Matthew's nursing home nearby.
He worked as a clerk in the Northamptonshire County Architects department all his working life rising to the position of Chief Clerk and retired at the age of 65.
He was well regarded and the County Architect, Mr. A. N. Harris ("Harris" as Dad referred to him"),  I remember Dad said, called him "Old  Greyhead" when he wanted Dad's advice. Harris succeeded Mr. Perkins in 1948 when Dad was well established. A wonderful tribute to Dad was paid by Mr. Alec Morgan in a letter to my sister, see Family Documents Section F. Mr. Morgan worked in the office during the early years of the WW2.
Close Family Memories.
Dad's younger sister was Florence (who was called Florrie), and younger brother was John (who was called Jack).
My Dad and Uncle Jack were very close, but Dad was not so close to Florrie, although I saw her regularly by my Mum taking me to visit her when she lived a few streets from us in Northampton. She married George Burgess and they had a daughter Joy who was a bit older than my sister Muriel. As I was 7 years younger, I thought those two girls were so grown up, and Joy was my favorite cousin. She loved dogs and had lovely springer spaniels. But the Burgess family were not really sociable types and never visited us. After she married Sid Luck, Joy seemed to become more reclusive and in her latter years I hardly ever saw her. they didn't have children.
Uncle Jack was different. He was my favorite Uncle and a second Dad, second only to Dad to me. In the war years we used to go to stay with Aunt Margaret and him at their home, Ash Cottage in Hazlemere for our holiday. The two daughters Eileen and Mary were there to play with me, but I mostly played on my own in his garage, in his car, an Austin 7, which was laid up on blocks for the duration of the War. They were magical holidays for me.
Mum and Dad, and Margaret and Jack, spent many holidays together, even after they retired and I have an account by my Dad of a famous trip to Spain when they were in their 60s, which I will include a link to here later.*
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2. WILLIAM GEORGE BARCOCK - my Grandfather
Born November 10, 1875 at 16 Duke St. Northampton England
Died November 11, 1944 at 137A Wellingborough Rd. Northampton England
Certificates are included in the Family Documents page
Married Fanny Cross March 28, 1896 at St. Peter's Northampton
Grandpa & Grandma Barcock 1921
Children;
2.1 William George Barcock, my father, b. February 18, 1901
2.2 Florence Barcock
2.3 John (Jack) Barcock, b.1905
Brief Biography.
My Grandfather had a cheerful, friendly appearance which, although I was too young to remember him, I'm sure was his nature.
Photographs of him all suggest this. My father, also called William George, was his eldest son. He would have been WG Jn. in the USA I suppose. Then there was Florence, called Florrie, and my Uncle Jack the youngest.
I can't remember him except his gold watch chain which must have fascinated me when I sat on his lap as a baby, and his rough tweed clothes. I remember more of Grandma Fanny, who lived on after he died. She took snuff and sometimes gave me a bit to make me sneeze. I really loved her but I know she was a bit of a problem. My Dad and Uncle Jack looked after her and him as well I think as she had spent all their money I believe. Fanny apparently used to be very mean for ages then go on a spending spree that caused problems! He had a very good position as Factory Superintendent at the O. A. Miller Last Works in Northampton. I have a tax return of his, see the Family Documents page section G,  which shows his income for the year 1925 was £486, a considerable salary and scope for Grandma Fanny's excesses.
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3. JOHN BARCOCK - my GreatGrandfather
Born 28th. August 1843, at Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England
Died before 1896 as he is described as "deceased" on his daughter Alice's marriage certificate 6.9.1896.
He was married twice His first wife was Mary Ann Wills and after she died he married Sarah Ann Lane.
These certificates are included in the Family Documents page Section B.

I do not have a picture of G.Gpa John or his wife. I will keep looking for one, surely there must be one somewhere.
I feel he was unlucky in that he lost both his wives when they were still young. He worked in one of  the shoe factories as a "riveter". I'm not sure what that was but I guess it was perhaps fixing the eyelets into the shoe. Just an ordinary labouring job I think and he must have been desperate to have left the country life for that. But that was the time of the collapse of farming and the farmworkers were out of work and starving. So they had to go into the new industrial towns for work, Northampton must have been like heaven compared to Bradford and the "satanic mills".
Here is a photo of 17 Military Road, the small house they lived in at the time of the 1881 census. My sister Muriel found it and photographed it. It sports a satellite TV dish now!
 
So I have the vision of a rather unfortunate man, dealt not the best hand to play the game of life with. Nevertheless, he and Sarah were successful in that they brought up their 4 children, Alice, William, Kate and Ellen all of whom had good lives.
I feel great admiration for them.
I have photos of the 4 children, when they were grown up, cropped from other photos;
       

Alice in 1921 aged 50        William G.in 1921 aged 46      Kate in1921,age43   Ellen in 1907 in her 20s.

Their mother Sarah Ann died aged 45 in 1892.