boxer bruce woodcock

[lorraine.99]

Hi
Bruce was British,British Empire and European Heavy Weight Boxing Champion 1945-50. He was the Empires first post war Heavy Weight Champion
Record 35 wins 4 Defeats. Known as the boxer with the glass jaw.He was 6.0 tall.
He retired from Boxing and moved to the Licensed trade and became Landlord of the Tumbler, in Edlington.
He died at the age of 76 yrs old in 1997
Bruce Woodcock is also my cousin...he is the decendant of my 4 x great grandparents William Woodcock 1780 and Susannah Allwood 1782
He was born in Doncaster 18/01/1921.His parents were Samuel Woodcock 1897 and Hilda Long c1900.He worked for the railway before becomming a boxer and he married Nora Speight and they had 2 children.

[lorraine.99]

you can purchase Bruce Woodcock's autograph...if I remember  the cost is arround $60

[ali607]

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying to all these messages. It's all very interesting - particularly about the Woodcocks being from Alvechurch - now that is TOO close not to be connected to my family! My nearest (to me) ancestor to bear the name Woodcock married a Fulford and the Fulford's originally came from Alvechurch - i've been in the village researching the addresses etc where they lived...so to find out that Bruce Woodcock's family were from there too is just not a coincidence. Thing is how do i find a connection? I've checked all the names that people have mentioned in their messages and none come up on my Family Tree database...

Alison

[lorraine.99]

Hi Alison

I have the Woodcock family info (woodcock is my maiden name) up to 1748 - william Woodcock c1748 and Jane Free 1748 they were born and married in Alvechurch. The Woodcocks moved out of Alvechurch in the early 1800's to live in Birmingham.
I have looked on my tree and I cannot find the name Fulford but I do know the Fulfords were from Alvechurch so I have checked the IGI records but cannot find any Fulfords married to a Woodcock as yet. I do not have a partner for the Harriet Woodcock 1814 Alvechurch - could this be your ancestor that was married to your Fulford???
Could you give me some more info on your woodcock and fulford ancestors ...Harriet Woodcock was Bruce Woodcocks Great Aunt...

[ali607]

Hi,
The woodcock-fulford connection was much later in 1893 when they married. I just think its strange that there is the connectioncock back to alvechurch - just as there is with my fulfords. It makes me think that the families knew each other long before the marriage in 1893. My fulfords were in alvechurch from as early as the mid 1700s and probably originally from there - they started to move to yorkshire for the mining the 1870s or so and gradually all ended up there.#

DOes anyone have a tree i can look at on GR to see if i can match anything?

Thanks
Alison

[lorraine.99]

yes I have....what info do you need to view it

[lorraine.99]

was your Harriet Woodcock married to James William Fulford in 3rd Quarter 1893 in Rotherham??

[ali607]

hi lorraine - yes thats my great grandparents marriage.

To view your tree I need well, give me a name of someone in it - and also your username (you might want to pm this to me)

Thanks
Alison

[lady penelope]

hi everybody the tumbler as now reopend first as last orders and now reverted back to the origanal name of the tumbler