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son, Thomas Hassall in 1817 and Rowland Hassall wrote then "If poor Samuel who was very ill when we heard last should be no more in this world, you can give the five pounds appointed for him to any of your cousins." He clearly recovered enough to write to Thomas Hassall in 1821 with news of his sister, Ann Penney.
8. Abraham Hancox II, baptised 28 May 1772, lived only a few months, buried 6 September 1772 at Brandon.
9. Abraham Hancox III, baptised 22 August 1773, died of smallpox at seven months, buried at Brandon on 28 March 1774.
10. Simeon Hancox, baptised 21 May 1775, presumed to have died young.
11. Susannah (sometimes called Anne, Sucky or Sukie) Hancox, baptised 9 October 1778. In 1803 according to a letter written by her brother, Thomas Hancox, she was living in London. In 1809 Samuel Marsden wrote to the Hassalls from England saying that he had offered to bring her out to New South Wales with him and that Mrs Marsden had written to her too but they had not had a reply. The pressure remained because later Susannah's sister, Elizabeth Hassall, wrote to her son, Thomas Hassall, when he was in England to ask him to persuade Susannah to come with him to Australia when he returned. She declined because she felt it would be too much for her father to part with her. She was, however, in close contact with Thomas Hassall when he was in England, and wrote him often to give news of her family and in particular her sister, Mary Penney, who had a son in 1819 and was in poor health. Susannah had gone to live with her brother-in-law after the death of his wife but she complained that the children were unruly and she found her lot very unpleasant. She married William Ralphs, a shoemaker from Coventry who appears to have later enlisted in the army to fight in the Napoleonic Wars and was based at Bixall Barracks.
12. Abraham Hancox IV, baptised 23 January 1780, who married Ann Smith on 4 Feb 1802 and had a baby c. 1803.
Another member of the Hancox family was a Thomas Hancox who lived with his wife in 411 Oxford Street, London. At first when Thomas Hassall arrived he wrote to his parents to say that
"Mr and Mrs Hancox would have written but the short time for so doing, little to say and

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