The Independent, Saturday 27 June 1891
(Footscray, Victoria, Australia)

DEATH OF WILLIAM SINCOCK
Mr Sincock was born on the 22nd September, 1818, at Redruth, in Cornwall, his father being the master of St. Ive’s Grammar School. Carefully educated by his father, he was, when of fit age, apprenticed, in the old-fashioned manner, for seven years to a chemist in his native town. At twenty-one years of age, he purchased a business at Andover, in Hampshire, and soon after married Mary Louisa Edwards, daughter of a commissariat officer in the British Army, and by her became the father of three sons and six daughters, all born in Andover. Towards the end of his residence in England, Mr Sincock, besides his business, conducted the Andover Savings Bank, and engaged in numerous share transactions, and finally, in 1861, quitted England by the ship Maxwell, to find a home for his numerous family in the colonies. For the past thirty years Mr Sincock has not quitted Victoria, being occupied in land mortgage business, until the feebleness of old age made him unable to keep any longer at the desk. Mr Sincock was, until the beginning of 1876, in The Land Mortgage Bank, a company in whose establishment he took a great part. He was also one of the first directors of the Mutual Store. After leaving the Land Mortgage Bank, Mr Sincock founded the Land Credit Bank, which, for some months, was under his management. In after years, he will be remembered by many as the acting manager of the Australian Freehold Banking Corporation, and more recently as the founder and manager of the Equitable Deposit and Mortgage Bank, during its brief and stormy existence. Mr Sincock’s kindly and gentle nature, and his persistent industry, which no failures or disappointments could damp, will be long remembered by those who knew him, and rendered him a general favorite. For many years he was an enthusiastic Freemason, and he also, in his leisure time, busied himself with the genealogies of the landed gentry of Cornwall, through some of which he could trace his own pedigree for nearly nine hundred years. His death, at the age of nearly seventy-three years, was caused by the exhaustion of old age, accelerated by business worries, and occurred on 22nd June; and on Wednesday the body was interred in the East St. Kilda cemetery. Of his two surviving sons, one is a solicitor, practising in this city, and the other is a law accountant in the office of Messrs Crisp, Lewis and Hedderwick.

The Argus, Tuesday 23 June 1891
(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Deaths
SINCOCK.—On the 22nd inst., at the residence of his cousin, Mr. J. Williams, North Fitzroy, after a lingering illness, William Sincock, of St. Kilda street, Elwood, in his 73rd year. Cornish papers please copy.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho