is the earliest traceable member of the family. The Witton (Northwich) parish registers show him as an "innholder" in 1767 and 1770. AJ MacGregor (who has published works on licensees in Cheshire and the Vale Royal) attributes him with tenure of the Black Dog in Lostock Gralam until 1786. The Witton Registers follow the Dade Format and identify Charles's wife as Mary NORBURY who died in 1790. Both Charles and Mary are buried at Northwich.

Charles COCKITT was baptised at Witton on 12 August 1770. He married Martha GRAY at Astbury on 28 December 1795 and lived at Newchapel (near Goldenhill, Staffordshire) until around 1800, when the family moved to Hall Green, Cheshire. Six of their children appear in the parish registers for Church Lawton. On all but one occasion Charles gave his profession as 'Dancing Master'. By 1813 the family had moved to Lower Withington, probably taking over Robert GRAY's smallholding at Catchpenny Lane. Charles and Martha are both buried in the graveyard at Siddington.

Henshall took his name from his maternal grandmother, Martha HENSHALL who married Robert GRAY at Prestbury on the 15 December 1765. Martha was the daughter of Daniel HENSHALL, a yeoman of Withington.

Henshall COCKITT married Henrietta RATHBONE at Astbury on 16 August 1840, and farmed at Brookhouse Farm, Gawsworth until his death in 1883. He is immortalised in the censuses for 1851 to 1881, as "Henshall Cockitt's Farm" formed one of the Gawsworth enumeration district boundaries. He also probably gave his name to Cockitt's Wood, a small copse on the Macclesfield-Congleton road, now the site of a sand quarry, which appears as part of Brookhouse farm on the 1849 tithe map for Gawsworth.