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Thomas Hancock (1807-1893), born in Ireland, married Hannah Mitchell (1809-1878) in 1827 in Yorkshire, England. They sailed for New Zealand in 1841, taking their 5 children with them. Three more children were born in their new country. "Thomas had two brothers, William who went to Victoria, Australia, and John, who went to the U.S.A. ... ". Related families are Mackey, Higgins, Mayall, Jagger, Keane, Robertson and Easdown.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique family were responsible for creating the earliest form of mechanized transport in the world, the foundation of the UK rubber industry, and the beginnings of the global information highway.
Inspired by his genealogist grandmother's insistence concerning inaccuracies in their ancestral records, Reed Hancock Gaddie became consumed by his search for the truth about his family's past-a search that would call into question three centuries of accepted history as well as the ancestry of one of America's Founding Fathers. Gaddie details his visits to Boston and Farmington, as well as his travels to Exeter and Plymouth, England, to sift through historical records and documents and learn the real identity of Thomas Hancock (1645-1734). As it becomes evident that Thomas was not the son of Nathaniel Hancock of Cambridge, Massachusetts, it also becomes clear that John Hancock, leader of the...
A riveting work of history that reads like enthralling fiction, Noble Obsession tells how Goodyear, a single-minded genius, risked his own life and his family's in a quest to unlock the secrets of rubber, and how Thomas Hancock, the scholarly English inventor who raced against Goodyear, ultimately robbed him of fame and fortune. Taking readers from the jungles of Brazil to the laboratories of Europe and the courtrooms of America, this fascinating book tells one of the strangest and most affecting sagas in the history of human discovery.
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