Notes:

From the Wesleyan Methodist "Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1871. Thomas Cocking ; who was early converted to God, entered our ministry in 1819, and for more than half a century laboured as a faithful and useful servant of Jesus Christ. His
preaching was plain, practical, and earnest He was gentle in disposition, and yet firm in the administration of discipline. For the Lord's day he had a high regard, and by the press, the pulpit, and his example, sought to promote its better observance. He
was diligent in visiting the sick, and was greatly beloved. He died at Alford, October 6th, I87O, in the eighty-first year of his age. June 2011.

Birth:
"Family Register" of a Cocking Family; from transcription in Lincolnshire FHS Mar 1999 (Vol 10 No 1): Compiler Rev. Thomas Cocking, dated 21 Dec. 1864.

Died:
probate

Thomas married UNKNOWN, Jane est 1820 in England. Jane was born about 1799 in Malton, Yorkshire, England; died est 1855 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married THOMPSON, Sarah on 21 May 1857 in Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire, England. Sarah (daughter of THOMPSON, W.) was born about 1818 in Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1900 in Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in 1900 in Newton on Trent, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
age 17 on 1851 census.