George W Stocks

• Birth Notes
  • GEORGE STOCKS
    Birth: 
    Christening:  03 APR 1825   Almondbury, Yorkshire, England
    Parents:
      Father:  BENJAMIN STOCKS
      Mother:  SARAH CAMPINET 
    
    
    Also another record which must be in error:
    GEORGE H. STOCKS
    Birth:  16 DEC 1826   Berry Brow, Yorkshire, England
    Parents:
      Father:  BENJAMIN STOCKS
      Mother:  SARAH 
    
    George STOCKS
    Other Information:
        Birth Year <1825> 
        Birthplace YORKSHIRE ENGLAND 
        Age 55 
        Occupation Farmer 
        Marital Status M <Married> 
        Race W <White> 
        Head of Household George STOCKS
        Relation Self 
        Father's Birthplace ENG 
        Mother's Birthplace ENG 
    Source Information:
        Census Place Dora, Moultrie, Illinois 
        Family History Library Film 1254238
        NA Film Number T9-0238
        Page Number 350C  
    

• Death Notes
  • His remains were interred in the New Hope cemetery near Dalton City and in his passing the community mourned a representative and esteemed resident of the county.

• General Notes
  • Emigrated to the USA
    
    In the fall of 1869 Joseph Stocks made a trip to England by way of California, stopping to see his brother George who lived south of Decatur.
    
    The Biography of Job W Stocks describes George's parents as Benjamin and Mery, but this must be a mistake as the christening records (and other family records) show his mother as Sarah Campinot.
    
    George stocks was educated in the schools of England and as a young man, came to the new world, thinking to have better opportunities and find better privileges on this side of the Atlantic.  While making the voyage to this new world he met the lady whom he afterward married, the wedding ceremony being performed a short time after their arrival in the United States.  Both the Stocks and Epworth families went on to Ohio, where they made their first settlement in the southern part of the state, probably in Vinton county near the Ross county line.  George Stocks worked at odd jobs for a time and later became connected with the railway interests, becoming a practical civil engineer.  In England he was associated with old Jimmy Griffiths, prominent in English history, Mr. Stocks acting as one of his assistants.  For some time he worked as a civil engineer in railroad construction here but afterward purchased a farm in Vinton county, Ohio, clearing the land and preparing it for plow (plough).  He remained upon that place for about nine years and then sold the property, after which he came to Illinois.  In this state he first rented a farm of Robert Patterson, about six miles south of Decatur and near the village of Elwin.  He was there for six yeas after which he purchased a farm in Moultrie county and about a year later took up his abode at that place.  This has since been known as the old Stocks homestead and the father resided thereon until his death. 
    

Details of George's family with Miriam (Myram) E Hepworth