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'. |
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. |
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