George Hancox - Osborn Mushet the 6 men from the FOD (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Friday, July 16, 2010, 23:23 (5324 days ago) @ raccos

From the notes I made long ago when I read The Story of the Mushets by Fred M. Osborn,(published in 1952), I have checked and it was George Hancox who went to work in Sheffield along with my ancestor Thomas Rook and George Tomlinson, William Phelps, Jim Brookfield and Louis Joseph Turton. The George Hancox you have found sounds like one and the same person. I think the book states what each person's skill in the steel industry was but I only copied out what it said about my ancestor as a blacksmith and not what it said about the others. As far as I can remember they weren't blacksmiths but had other significant skills.