Pidcock Glaziers - George Pidcock (1655

Wirkworth Parish records between 1600-1900 in the Churchwarden accounting books typically show entries by clergy for payment to labourers for a wide range of services from buying wine for communion to repairs to the church properties.

Here are entries to George Pidcock for glasswork on the church windows and lead supplies from 1664 to 1676:

YEAR - PAYEE - REFERENCE NUMBER OR TYPE OF SERVICE - (AMOUNT)
1664 PIDCOCK ---- 1191
1669 PIDCOCK ---- 2128 .pead to Pidcock upon bill ( 2 ? 0)
1675 PIDCOCK Geo 3181 Spent at Anthony Bradshaws in bargining with Geo Pidcock (0 0 6 )
1675 PIDCOCK Geo 3214
1679 PIDCOCK Geo 3846
1679 PIDCOCK Geo .ditto pd to Geo Pidcock for glaseing the Church windows this year (1 0 0)
1679 PIDCOCK Geo Apr 29 pd Geo Pidcock his sallery for glaseing the church windows for the yeare 1678 (1 0 0)
1680 PIDCOCK Geo .dito pd Geo Pidcock & Antho Bradshall (1 0 0)
1680 PIDCOCK Geo .ditto pd Geo Pidcock A bill of worke done at the church & Materialls he used (2 0 3)
1671 PIDCOCK Georg 2413
1671 PIDCOCK Georg .It payd to Georg Pidcock for mending ye Faunt (0 4 0)
1677 PIDCOCK Georg .pd Georg Pidcock & Anthony Bradsha upon Bill for glasing & mending the (4 11 0)
1661 PIDCOCK George .paid George Pidcock for mending church leades (1 0 0)
1664 PIDCOCK George 1129
1665 PIDCOCK George 1516
1669 PIDCOCK George .July 1 pead to george Pidcock for settinge up a ladder to ? the roofe of the Church (0 2 6)
1680 PIDCOCK George 4121
1683 PIDCOCK George 4641
1720 PIDCOCK Wm .pd Wm Pidcock & Chas.Briggs for Asist (0 7 6)
1662 PIDCOCKE George 587
1662 PIDCOCKE George .pd George Pidcocke for three new sheets of Lead (11 16 3)
1663 PIDCOCKE George .pd to Anthony Bradshaw & George Pidcocke for ob glazeing ye church & for mending ye Leades (9 2 9)
1674 PIDCOCKE George 3067
1676 PIDCOCKE George 3358
1664 PIDCOK George .Aug 3 payed at George Pidcoks for Bread & ale that the Painters had at severall times (0 1 6)
1673 PIDKOCK George 2686

George's father, William Pidcock (1630-1692) of Bakewell and also a glazier & Elizabeth Holland (1634-1717) of Wirksworth. Their first 3 children - George (1655-), Robert (1657-1724) & Mary (1660-1720) were born in Wirksworth, before the family moved back to Bakewell to have Jane (1662-, married Joseph Oliver of Tansley), Elizabeth (1664-1665), Dorothy (1666-1666), William (1667-1724) my ancestor, John (1669-1722) & Benjamin (1672-1754).

George, a glazier, married Mary Dale in 1690 (Leek, Staffs),had no children and was alive in 1715. Robert & Benjamin married the Botham sisters (Mary & Anne); Robert, also a glazier, had 5 children, only one of which William (1685-1724, a plumber) produced heirs; Benjamin, a saddler, died without heirs. Mary & John never married.

William (1630-1692) died and was buried for unknown reasons in Matlock. His parents were William And Margaret Pidcock of Bakewell, who died in 1630 and 1670 respectively.

A large dynasty of Pidcocks descended from William & Elizabeth in England. Elizabeth's parents were Thomas Henzey(-1712) & Frances Croker (-1707) of Amblecote, Staffs, who also had a daughter, Elizabeth. Thomas' parents were Joshuah Henzey the Younger(1640-) and Dorothy(-1682). His parents were Joshuah the Elder (1600-1660) and Joan Bretell(1589-1671). His father Annanias Hennezel (born 1570 in France), a Huguenot glassmaker, had brought the family to near Stourbridge in the early 17th century!