Frances Hancock

- 1699

• Name	Frances Hancock
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1671	Southwark, Surrey, England
  	Newington Butts
  Legal	16 Jun 1680	Windsor, Berkshire, England   [1]
  	Frances and her stepsons Alexander and Isaac were granted an annual pension of £104, which had been due to John SWinton's first wife in a provision dated 19 March 1662. They were said to be in "a verie poor and miserable conditione"
  Name	Frances Simanons  [2]
  Residence	Mar 1688/89	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Along with other Quakers, "mobbed and illtreated" by Cameronians. Two years yater, the coach she was riding in was stoned in the Grassmarket.
  Property	1691  [4]
  	Granted an annuity of 2,000 merks by her elder stepson Alexander
  Residence	Oct 1693	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	When she planned with local Quakers to reprint a treatise from London "to stop the malicious design of some separat spirits in America"
  Death	29 Mar 1699	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Recorded by the Edinburgh Quaker Monthly Meeting
  Burial	31 Mar 1699	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Quaker burial ground, The Pleasance
  Person ID	I44831	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Hancock
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31218	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Arent Sonmans,   b. 1634, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. Aug 1683, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Children	1. Rachel Sonmans   d. 1737, Wanstead, Essex, England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Joanna Sonmans  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 2	John Swinton   d. 1679, Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland
  Marriage	3 Aug 1671	Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F31217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 3	_____ White   d. Bef 1671
  Family ID	F31968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - Newington Butts - 1671 - Southwark, Surrey, England Marriage - 3 Aug 1671 - Westminster, Middlesex, England Legal - Frances and her stepsons Alexander and Isaac were granted an annual pension of £104, which had been due to John SWinton's first wife in a provision dated 19 March 1662. They were said to be in "a verie poor and miserable conditione" - 16 Jun 1680 - Windsor, Berkshire, England Residence - Along with other Quakers, "mobbed and illtreated" by Cameronians. Two years yater, the coach she was riding in was stoned in the Grassmarket. - Mar 1688/89 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Residence - When she planned with local Quakers to reprint a treatise from London "to stop the malicious design of some separat spirits in America" - Oct 1693 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Death - 29 Mar 1699 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Burial - 31 Mar 1699 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3781] Swinton, Archibald Campbell, The Swintons of That Ilk and Their Cadets, pp74-75, ccii-cciv. [S3615] Strath-Maxwell, Archibald, Digest of Quaker births, marriages and burials in Scotland, 1647-1878, (Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1960;), p205. [S3782] Miller, William F., "The Wife of John Swinton", p29. [S3781] Swinton, Archibald Campbell, The Swintons of That Ilk and Their Cadets, p76. [S3626] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Name: Oxford University Press; Location: Oxford;), Swinton, John (c.1620-1679), by John Coffey, 2004. [S3781] Swinton, Archibald Campbell, The Swintons of That Ilk and Their Cadets, p73.