Hello there.  I've created this tree at TribalPages in the hopes of endeavouring to stretch the tree back further in time past what we know of our earliest ancestor, James WOODCOCK who was born in 1777 Winfarthing, Norfolk, England and married Mary CULLUM on the 14th of December 1802 at St.Mary the Virgin, Winfarthing, Norfolk, England.  It is here that they raised a large family of four daughters and five sons, namely Harriet, James, Mary, Emily, Job, Israel, Ann, Ephraim, and Ezra WOODCOCK.

NOTE: The Woodcock (bird), is said to have started the surname. Legend says that a dealer of game in London kept a large suppy of the game bird on hand. It was a delicacy and the people did not know what to call the dealer so they called him "Mr. Woodcock". The dealer did not object as long as the people purchased his birds at a good price.  SOURCE: www.geocities.com/thewoodcocks

Interestingly, I have also found a street in Norfolk/Norwich called 'Woodcock Road'.  And on Norfolk Museums & Archeaolgy Service there are several places names with Woodcock mentioned: Woodcock Bottom, Oxborough; Woodcock Corner, Holt and Lynford; Woodcock Farm, Wiggenhall, St Germans; Woodcock Hall, Saham Toney; Woodcock Hill, Cotessey; Woodcock Hill, Hockham; Woodcock Hill, Swanton Abbott; Woodcock Wood, Sandringham; Woodcock's Lane, Great Melton.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7627234&queryType=1&resultcount=1

Found an ancient Petition to the Kings in the time of the Dark Ages, in which a Roger Wodcok petitioned the King after he had his ear cut off in the years 1448-1451.

GENUKI Wragby Parish Registers
 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/WRY/Wragby.html

"...the Woodcocks are in the St Michael and Our Lady Parish Registers back to 1538. The Woodcocks lived in Wragby, Wakefield in West Yorkshire..." SOURCE: WOODCOCK messageboards
 http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.woodcock/105.213.1/mb.ashx

There were WOODCOCK families living in Cuerden Green (Woodcock Hall), Lancashire, England in the 13th Century.
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg1425.htm

"...When attorneys were first registered in 1730, the name of John Woodcock, of Woodcock Hall, Cuerden, appeared on the roll..."
 http://archive.theboltonnews.co.uk/1999/2/17/781317.html

15th Century
 Netherwood Hall, Darfield, near Barsnley in South Yorkshire, England. http://homepages.tesco.net/~neil.thornton/netherwood.htm

The Proceedings of the OLD BAILEY, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913 http://www.oldbaileyonline.org.uk/search.jsp?form=_divs&_divs_fulltext=Woodcock&ref=&_divs_div0Type_div1Type=&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / OTHER RESEARCHERS:-

I'd like to personally acknowledge and thank Judith for the absolutely large collection of bdm certs.  Also Val for unearthing the suitcase of amazing photographs.  And Liz Hall for supplying the marvellous picture of the cross-stitch embroidery by Isabella Woodcock nee Buchan.  And a big thank you to Felicity for sharing all the memorial cards that she had.

Self: Alison Lyons nee Cantwell, 3g granddaughter of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD Email: yogibear@in.com.au

Felicity Willoughby nee Stockwell, 3g granddaughter of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD Email: mw@millbank.eclipse.co.uk

Judith Forbes-Smith, 3g granddaughter of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD          

Val Gray, wife of descendant, 2g grandson of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD       Email: valgray99@yahoo.com

Maureen Sledge, 3g granddaughter of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD                Email: JABAKA@dart.net.au

Elizabeth Hall, 5g granddaughter of Job WOODCOCK and Sarah ATTWOOD                Email: liz_hall78@hotmail.com

Janet Hoare nee Woodcock, 4g granddaughter of James WOODCOCK and Elizabeth WEBSDELL

Jan Donoghue nee Greaney, 3g granddaughter of James BUSH & Harriet WOODCOCK

Petrina McNeil, connection with Ezra WOODCOCK

Susannah Girt, 3g granddaughter of Ephraim WOODCOCK and Mary PALMER