When Eliza Ann Hancock was born on 19 November 1846, in Olveston, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Hancock, was 31 and her mother, Eliza Nelmes, was 31. She lived in Shoreditch, London, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke ).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle, periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.
History: Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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