Richard Clemence and Mary Hocking

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Parents          John Clemence (50%)        Andrew and Honora Hocking

Richard Clemence (b 1706 of  St Agnes Cornwall, m Mary Hocking 1731 Redruth, d 1782)
Mary Hocking (b 1711 Redruth Cornwall,)
    John Clemence (b 1732 St Agnes)
    Jane Clemence (b 1733 St Agnes)
    John Clemence (b 1735 St Agnes)
    Mary Clemence (b 1739 St Agnes)
    Nicholas Clemence (b 1741 St Agnes)
    Barbara Clemence (b 1745 St Agnes, m John Michell 1769 St Agnes, d 1791 St Agnes) 
    Richard Clemence (b 1747 St Agnes)

Research Notes

Genes Reunited checked for Richard and Mary
Mary Hocking is a bit of a worry
LDS has  a composite record     birth abt 1708 of St Agnes, Chr  28 Sep 1710 Altarnun, Cornwall     marrying Richard Clemence  12 Nov 1731 Redruth
Other simpler records have her marrying in Redruth (not at issue) born in Redruth and/or "Of St Agnes"
FHO has two baptisms   28 Sep 1710 Altarnun,  parents Richard and Joan Hocking
and                                15 Dec 1711  Redruth St Uny, parents Andrew and Honora Hocking          
Altarnun is about 70 miles east of St Agnes, and Redruth is 6 miles south of St Agnes.
FHO has the Redruth marriage with no mention of Altarnun 
Conclusion : The Altarnun entry is a wrong guess by someone entering the data into LDS    
Richard Clemence has several vague birth entries in the LDS, but nothing useful. Nothing in FHO. OPC online database does not have a baptism for Richard..

Query was sent to the OPC for St Agnes, Janice Brooker, who came back with the following
    I regret that I don't have the parish registers for this date.
    I do have an index to all marriages from 1596 - 1837 and extracted the following Clem* marriages which I hope will be of interest:
John Clemence = [no name recorded]      7 Aug 1675
Nicholas Jenkin = Dorcas Clemens        28 Dec 1697
Arthur Trebarfat = Blanch Clemens       17 Feb 1712
That John Clemence entry is quite encouraging. John is a common name, but the timing is about right, and they did call their first son John. Score him about 50%?
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