James Adcock and his wife Sarah came to Blue Mountains in about 1865. Their family and descendants lived there for more than 100 years.

They had at least 5 children who all grew up to work at the Paper Mills.

By 1889  two of James and Sarah’s sons had married but still lived close by. Henry had married Elizabeth Rostron in 1889. They lived at no.20. They had 3 children  By 1911 they were still living at no. 20 but with Henry’s parents.

George had married Maria Adkin, also in 1889.   He was a stoker at the Mill.

By the 1891 Census,  George Adcock and family were at no 17,  next door to William and Edith Moore

(See “ Caroline “ by Colyn Stevens) and  at no. 18 were Samuel Wassell and his wife Prudence

By the 1911 Census George and Maria Adcock had had at least 11 children. As the children married and moved either to a near-by cottage or further away George and Maria  Adcock remained at no 17. I

In 1915, Andrew (born 1900) joined up aged 16. He was seen off by members of his family as he left to go to France. The family never saw him again. He was killed on April 15th 1918 aged 19 in Flanders.

His is the first name listed on the Lychgate memorial.

Andrew’s sister Barbara Miriam (born 1909), only six when her brother went to war, married Joseph Eric Fish in 1938. (See Fish Family Tree)  Barbara Miriam's twin brother and sister, John Eric and Muriel Cathleen (born 1906) may have been the children mentioned by Cathie Woodward in her book “A Native’s tale”:-  “ A Blue Mountains family who, in sheer desperation after choosing 12 other children’s names called two of them after the two youngest of the Catt family of The Outwoods, Muriel and Eric.”

In 1940, in the war, John Eric Adcock of 17 Blue Mountains (aged 34).  was among pedal cyclists fined  5/- for not having front lights properly obscured. Their grandparents James and Sarah Adcock still lived at Blue Mountains too with, by 1911, their son Henry and his children, James William, born 1891, Alice, born 1895 and Rose, born 1897. They were all at no. 20 in 1911. James Adcock died in 1924.

 In 1939, Joseph Eric and Barbara Miriam Fish were living at no 18, next door to Miriam’s parents, George and Maria Adcock at no.17. (6 rooms)

Next door to them at no.19 were their daughter Muriel Kathleen and her husband John Stone (married 1932) and their son Brian, born in 1938. George Adcock died in 1940.  Maria died in 1942 leaving £189 to her daughter Miriam Fish.