Thomas BULLOCK born 1797 in Westbury-on-Severn. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, February 26, 2018, 16:08 (2465 days ago) @ Brythonica

I am trying to trace the Bullock line further back, but can currently only get back as far as Thomas Bullock born 1797 in Westbury-on-Severn. if anyone has any information on the Bullocks going farther back I would love to hear from you!

Hi and thanks for your post, hard to bullieve this was six years ago ! Please extend our thanks and best wishes to your sister, I have a few cousins on my mum's Longhope Wright side who also now live around Stroud despite their parents living their final years near Longhope. Jo Spencer who also contributed to this thread still lives in Longhope as far as I'm aware.
Also a warm welcome to the forum and website, if you use the various drop-down menus off the top banner you'll see the site contains a huge amount of interesting information, so hopefully you will find something of interest altho sadly Longhope hasn't had too many mentions on this site. This is in addition to the huge PRs database, and of course this forum which is a useful source of reference in itself, as you've already found.

You mention taking your line back to "Thomas Bullock born 1797 in Westbury-on-Severn". Is this date from a Parish Record, or an estimate based on a Census record or similar ?
I've just looked in the PRs and the nearest match I can easily find (ie without looking for spelling variations etc) is this one, can this be the same Thomas ?
If it is then the parent's names should be useful for extending your tree.
http://forest-of-dean.net/joomla/index.php/resources/parish-records

Record_ID: 553995
Entry_Number: 1999
Year: 1796
Month: Jul
Day: 10
Parents_Surname: BULLOCK
Child_Forenames: Thomas
Fathers_Forenames: George
Mothers_Forenames: Deborah
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Son of
Notes:
Register_Reference: P 354 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 63
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: B420

Using the Advanced Search feature can quickly find more Baptisms to these parents, the individual PRs contain a little more info but the essentials are as follows:
http://forest-of-dean.net/joomla/index.php/advanced-search

Year Surname Child Forenames Fathers & Mothers Forenames Mothers Surname Residence Occupation Parish Chapel
1780 BULLOCK Anne. George & Deborah. Westbury on Severn
1785 BULLOCK George. George & Deborah. Westbury on Severn
1788 BULLOCK Jonathan. George & Deborah. Westbury on Severn
1791 BULLOCK Charles. George & Deborah. Poor. Westbury on Severn
1793 BULLOCK Deborah. George & Deborah. Poor. Westbury on Severn
1796 BULLOCK Thomas. George & Deborah. Westbury on Severn
1799 BULLOCK Mary. George & Deborah. Westbury on Severn

Can also find this Marriage Record,

Record_ID: 206818
Entry_Number: 317
Year: 1779
Month: Oct
Day: 20
Grooms_Surname: BULLOCK
Grooms_Forenames: George
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition: Batchelor
Grooms_Occupation:
Grooms_Residence: Of this Parish
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: COOK
Brides_Forenames: Deborah
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: Of this Parish
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark: They Both Marked
Witness_1: Ann Mayo
Witness_2: William Mayo
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: J Morse Curate
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P 354 IN 1/4
Page_Number: 92
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex_Groom: B420
Soundex_Bride: C200

And I'm sure we can find further records, marriages and burials, for these children. The PRs include at least 374 BULLOCKs in Westbury going back to at least 1581, about a century before any Longhope records. I wonder if the Longhope Bullocks originate from Westbury ?

Thanks again, Jeff.