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In 1801 there was only one church in Weston-super-Mare - St John the Baptist, the original Parish Church, so that should be the first place to look for a burial.   How do you know they was buried in Weston? 

Where did you find the date for Jane's burial?  According to our transcription and the NBI there is a burial of a Sarah HANCOCK (widow) 14 March 1801 but no Jane HANCOCK

I expect that you know that their son, also a Cornelius HANCOCK, was one of the Weston Worthies - a series of paintings of Weston residents of the 19th Century - He was born in Banwell and is buried in St John's Churchyard, Weston-super-Mare, aged 92 in 1855.

There is, I believe, an extensive obit to him in one of the Weston newspapers which can be viewed in Weston Library.

It might be helpful to look at the Overseers' Accounts for Weston-super-Mare to see whether Cornelius HANCOCK senior was listed as a rate payer of the parish and if so when he disappears from the list.

Although there are several family trees posted online I haven't found the sources for the information they contain and some of them contradict each other.  Some confuse South Brent in Devon with South Brent (Brent Knoll) in Somerset - the possible birthplace of Cornelius HANCOCK senior.  When he marries the register entry states that he was from Berrow (but that's not far from Brent Knoll and he could have been living there).

Perhaps someone else can suggest when and where Cornelius & Jane HANCOCK might have been buried.

Have had this email from Mike DEMACK

"Have been exploring the family name, DEMACK, for some years and accumulated much from Ancestry.Co.uk. The name is very unusal and I gather may come from Mediteranean area originally - no proof - there are many based in North West ( Manchester Preston and Chorley ).

I have tried to link the two groups with those in Weston etc unsuccessfully apart from a decline in agriculture and a move to the north west to secure work in the mills in the19th Century,

Please pass details on  to anyone who may be interested."

He can be contacted here

Edgar Brown is a family grocer in 1901 and a retired grocer in 1911 living at Holme Cott. In 1911 this is listed as 10 Stafford Place. Son Arthur is a cafe proprietor in 1901.

By 1911 Arthur Edgar Brown is living at Moorlands, Neva Road and is Managing Director of Brown Brothers' Stores Ltd (General Grocery Stores).  
Living with parents at Holme Cottage in 1911 are Agnes & Margaret Brown - Fancy Cake Ornamentors (part-time) and sisters Mary Ellen and Edith both part-time Fancy Biscuit Makers.

A quick google of Brown Brothers, Weston-super-Mare brings up the following details of property sales relating to a cake factory in North Street.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddbrsd&cid=-1#-1

Although no one has posted any information about this - the volunteers who help in the Library on Saturdays have been trying to come up with a solution. In spite of several enquiries no one knows of a Biscuit Factory.  But there are two possible options

1. As the family lived in Wooler Road they would have been very near the Cooperative Store which was in Baker Street on the corner of George Street - Perhaps they had broken biscuits?
2. Brian Austin suggests that he might have been referring to The Star Coffee House which was on the corner of Alfred Street and Meadow Street.  He believes this catered almost as a soup kitchen and might well have baked on the premises.

Any more ideas?