WILLIAM PENNOCK

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THE STORY AS I KNOW IT

The Pennock family was a leading Quaker family in colonial Pennsylvania. The descendants are numerous. Three known books have been written about them:
The Pennocks of Primitive Hall by George Valentine Massey II,
The Pusey Family by Pennock Pusey, and
Christopher Pennock Genealogy, compiled by Charles A. Rudolph, 1959.

William Pennock was born 12/8/1823 in Chester County Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Pennock and Elizabeth Stevens.  His father was a miller.  His mother died before 1850.  William was their oldest child.  In 1850 William is living with the Hage family as a farm laborer. 

 In 1852 he married Margaret Jane McMasters. Very likely in the New London Presbyterian Church.  Before they wed she was caring for children.  The parents of those children are buried in New London Presbyterian church Cemetery.
 They had 10 known children. They are:
1. Elizabeth (Lizzie) born 1852, she wed Alfred Bowers and died in 1883
2. Morris born 1854 may have died very early.  He is not on the 1860 or 1870 census. 
3. William Herbert born 1854 twin, he wed Hannah Keighley
4. James Hibbert born 1855, he wed Mary Scott
5. Thomas Hughes born 1858, he wed Martha Mary Missimer
6. Mary Alice born 1860, never wed, she died 1922.
7. Annie Woodrow born about 1863 wed Amos Curry
8. Harry Owens born 1865 died 1878
9. Harvey Lewis born 1867 wed Sarah Mason
10. Bayard Taylor born 1871 died 1895

William continued as a farmer through out his life. 

The 1870 Chester County Census has William Pennock and family in.London Britain, StrickersvilleWilliam is the head of the household, a farmer with his wife and 8 children and his father John Pennock, age 69, a miller.  We don't know when John died, but it was probably before 1879.

William Pennock died Sept 18, 1879 and is buried in the New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Margaret Jane McMasters Pennock lived until 1907.  She is buried next to William along with 4 of their children: Lizzie, Harry O, Bayard and Mary Alice.  Their tombstone is listed on Find a Grave.

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