John COX James COX John Fenner COX Thomas COX Sarah COX Hannah COX William COX Sarah HOPKINS Hester TIMMS Phebe COX Hannah FENNER Mini tree diagram

Joseph COX

about 17961 - 1st Nov 18792

Life History

about 1796

Born in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire.1

8th Nov 1819

Married Sarah HOPKINS in Aldbury, Hertfordshire.3

Joseph Cox 'of Pitstone'.

Witness: Thomas Cox.

Sarah is shown as otp, but Sarah 1793 Cheddington seems to be more likely. This means that the John Hopkins who is a witness at Joseph Cox second marriage is likely to be Sarah's brother.

6th Dec 1820

Death of Sarah HOPKINS in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire.2

2nd Feb 1824

Married Hester TIMMS in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.4

Both are otp, and are widower/widow.

Witnesses include John Hopkins, presumably first wife Sarah's youngest sibling. He would have been aged 17.

6th Oct 1869

Death of Hester TIMMS in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.2

1st Nov 1879

Died in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.2

Notes

  • 1841C: Cheddington. Carrier.  b Bucks. With  Esther Cox 1791 Bucks; Abel Turvey 1823, not born Bucks, AgLab; John Timpson 1756, Bucks, AgLab; Mary Norwood 1831 Bucks.
    1851C: Cheddington. Shopkeeper. With wife Esther b Marsworth 1789 only.
    1861C: Cheddington. Shopkeeper/Grocer. b Pitstone. With wife Esther. niece Emma Sheffield 1840 Cheddington, and Francis Norwood, brother [in-law] 1796 Cheddington (married to Elizabeth Fountain of Mentmore in Cheddington on 1-Feb-1819).
    1871C: Cheddington. Widower. b Pitstone. Alone.

    The implied birth year at burial is 1793.

    No direct evidence that Joseph is a son of John and Hannah, but
    - he is born Pitstone in the censuses and is 'of Pitstone' for his first marriage
    - there is only one Cox family (John and Hannah) in Pitstone around the time of his birth, and Joseph fits between William bb1792 and Phebe b1801
    - he is a witness at the 1815 wedding of Thomas Cox (putative brother) to Dorothy Rolfe (other witnesses T.Cox and S Turney)
    - he is a witness at the 1838 wedding of James Sheffield to Mary Prior, who are the parents of Emma Sheffield, who is with him in the 1861 census.

Sources

  • 1. 1841C
  • 2. BFHS PR Transcription-Burial
  • 3. FMP (Hertfordshire Marriages).
  • 4. BFHS PR Transcription-Banns

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