Cotton Abbots
...
George Leycester, Esq. conveyed it to the late Thomas Brock, Esq. by whose settlements, and the will of his brother Richard, then Rector of Davenham, the manor has passed to the eldest son of his eldest niece, Thomas Clutton, Esq. of Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, who took the name Brock, and is now proprietor.

"The Parish of Christleton" in The History of the County Palatine of Chester by J. H. Hanshall (1817)

Hockenhull
...
Ten years after [1771] it was re-sold to Thomas Brock, Esq. who bequeathed it to his nephew, Richard Yates, Esq. who died in his infancy. The estate was then wrested in the Rev. William Brock, Rector of Davenham, and he devised it to the eldest son of his eldest niece, who married Thomas Clutton of Kinnersley, co. Hereford; and his eldest son having succeeded to the property, has taken the name Brock.

"The Parish of Christleton" in The History of the County Palatine of Chester by J. H. Hanshall (1817)

Whitehall, July 9, 1810===

The King has been pleased to grant to Elizabeth Clutton, Widow and Relict of Thomas Clutton, late of Kinnersley Castle, in the County of Hereford, Esq; deceased, and Daughter of John Wood, formerly of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Esq. by Elizabeth his Wife, Sister of the Reverend William Brock, of Davenham, in the County of Chester, Clerk, for and on behalf of her eldest Son Thomas Clutton, an infant of the Age of fourteen Years or thereabouts. His Royal License and Authority that he the said Thomas Clutton may take and use the Surname of Brock, in addition to his said Surname of Clutton; and also bear the Arms of Brock in compliance with the last Will and Testament of the said Reverend William Brock, Clerk, deceased; such Arms being first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms, and recorded in the Herald's office;
And also to order His Majesty's Confession and Declaration be registered in his College of Arms.

The London Gazette

Censuses:

• 1841
• 1851

  ---

  
  

Death registration