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There is this Will, it would take some reading through



England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858
about Thomas DeBock




Name:
Thomas DeBock

Residence:
Sandwich, Kent, England

You could try searching on the Kent archives site - copies of wills are often deposited with archive centres.

http://www.dswebhosting.info/kent/calmview//Overview.aspx

Hi Gwyn

Good idea Gwyn. The Debocks appear to have been artisans and not well off. I used FMP and searched the records relating to Wills and Probate. Using a D*b*k* search I did find a few with names like Deback, Debok but none related to Sandwich or Margate families.

Am I looking at the right website. Are there other ways of searching for Wills and Probate?

regards Alicia

Did any of them leave Wills, which might help with identifying families?

Gwyn

Hi Chris and Gins

Yes those records you have found are the ones I'm refering to. I use FMP and LDS's Family Search a lot and I also found that useful extracted summary on Rootsweb Archiver of Debock church records Sandwich. I'm basically saying given those church records when you try to link them up into a family tree you get lots of questions about how certain you can be. It's relatively easy to collect together a nuclear family of man, wife and offspring but when you try to link that man to a birth record some 20 to 50 years earlier there's not much certainty. And when you look at an image of the church record often there are no extra clues. If you are lucky there are witness names.
So that leaves the Huguenot Society - it seems I have to buy the CDs before I know whether they contain what I'm looking for.
Regards
Alicia

Canterbury Marriage Banns Transcription (Find My Past)
First name(s) Isaac
Last name De Book
Place Sandwich, St Mary the Virgin
Marriage year 1777
Marriage day 17
Marriage month Dec
Spouse's first name(s) Anne
Spouse's last name Alderstone
Groom's parish St Peter In Sandwich
Bride's parish St Mary The Virgin In Sandwich
County Kent
Country England
Archive reference U3/11/1/4
Year range 1754-1813
Record set Canterbury Marriage Banns

(looking at image of above, a witness was Thomas Debock)

Chris :)

(FMP have quite a bit on Kent, if you don't subscribe, below might be useful, better hurry!)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1344840


http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/

(also could be useful)


http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE/2000-05/0957423721

(above from google search)

The 1738 has the mother as Mary


England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

Name:Isaac Debock

Gender:Male

Baptism Date:26 Nov 1738

Baptism Place:St. Mary's, Sandwich, Kent, England

Father:
Isaac

Mother:
Mary

FHL Film Number:1850185

Reference ID:item 3


And here is the other birth



England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975


Name:Isaac Debosk

Gender:Male

Baptism Date:5 Nov 1746

Baptism Place:St. Peter's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England

Father:
Thos. Debosk

Mother:
Anna Debosk

FHL Film Number:1850186

I'm trying to put together a Debock family tree for the Debocks of Sandwich and Margate, Kent (aka De Bock, Debeke, Deboke, Deboak). Debock is a Walloon-Huguenot name and they arrived in Sandwich in the 1600s. This family chose from a small number of first names so it can be difficult to distinguish them. Sandwich had 3 Anglican parishes (St Peter, St Mary, St Clement) and the Debocks appear in all 3.

My gggg grandmother Hannah Debock b 1780 was the child of Isaac and Ann Debock. I'm fairly sure that Ann Debock's maiden name was Alderstone as an Isaac Debock and Ann Alderstone were married 1777. The Isaac Debock that married Ann Alderstone could be
(1) Isaac son of Thomas and Ann Debock chr 5 Nov 1746 St Peter, Sandwich
(2) Isaac son of Isaac and Mary Debock chr 26 Nov 1738 St Mary, Sandwich
What records should I look for that will help me distinguish between these 2 Debocks and other Debocks and link the generations together more definitely? If only there were census records for the 1700s!
Regards
Alicia Warren in Auckland, New Zealand