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Australia / Re: Horace Gordon Cox
« on: Wednesday 09 May 18 06:49 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the Australia research - this has been really helpful. Disappointed that he did not appear to have any relatives to go to in Australia. There goes another holiday opportunity!

Am now pursuing the Hockridge line in this country through a number of trees to see if they kept in touch.

Andy

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Australia / Re: Horace Gordon Cox
« on: Friday 04 May 18 09:40 BST (UK)  »
Thank you those who have responded with useful information. I have part of a letter signed by Reggis  2nd name possibly Partridge on behalf of the Government Experimental Farm dated 25 April 1926. I quote 'I wish you the best of everything and I trust that we will ever remain the best of friends'

Presumably given the short period of time from his arrival in Australia he must have had an introduction to here. I'd love to know where he went from here. He was an unaccompanied 15 year old!!!

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Australia / Re: Horace Gordon Cox
« on: Thursday 03 May 18 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your interest. He travelled out on the Oronsay on 9 January 1926. As far as I am aware he went freely and was supplied with a number of contact points for introductions. Even though he was at Yanco my understanding is that this was before it became a corrective establishment.

Regards

Andy Cox

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Australia / Horace Gordon Cox
« on: Wednesday 02 May 18 17:16 BST (UK)  »
Horace Gordon Cox Born London 30 June 1910
My father left the UK to sail to Australia on 9 January 1926 at the age of 15. I can see no record of him sailing with a relative or friend and am trying to find out where he went and who he stayed with.
I am assuming that he was met by relations and a number of Cox’s emigrated to Australia at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.
He landed in Melbourne and I am aware he spent some time at the Yanco experimental farm in NSW leaving there about April 1926 – before it became a training farm for delinquent boys!
Interestingly, Yanco is close to Wagga Wagga where I believe there is a large Cox cemetery.
I also believe he worked on one or several sheep farms and I have a wages slip from Young Bros & Co , Stock and Station Agents in Horsham Victoria. He was very keen on Prahran football club which makes me think, at one time, he worked fairly close to Melbourne.
It is possible that he was recorded in The Werriwa area of NSW in 1930.
He returned to the UK in November 1932.
Any information anyone can give me about his whereabouts during his time in Australia would be gratefully received and hey I might even find some new relatives.
My father died on 30th January 1989.
Andy Cox

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Family History Beginners Board / Horace Gordon Cox
« on: Wednesday 02 May 18 15:33 BST (UK)  »
Horace Gordon Cox Born London 30 June 1910
My father left the UK to sail to Australia on 9 January 1926 at the age of 15. I can see no record of him sailing with a relative or friend and am trying to find out where he went and who he stayed with.
I am assuming that he was met by relations and a number of Cox’s emigrated to Australia at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.
He landed in Melbourne and I am aware he spent some time at the Yanco experimental farm in NSW leaving there about April 1926 – before it became a training farm for delinquent boys!
Interestingly, Yanco is close to Wagga Wagga where I believe there is a large Cox cemetery.
I also believe he worked on one or several sheep farms and I have a wages slip from Young Bros & Co , Stock and Station Agents in Horsham Victoria. He was very keen on Prahran football club which makes me think, at one time, he worked fairly close to Melbourne.
It is possible that he was recorded in The Werriwa area of NSW in 1930.
He returned to the UK in November 1932.
Any information anyone can give me about his whereabouts during that time would be gratefully received and hey I might even find some new relatives.

My father died on 30th January 1989.
Andy Cox

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Kilkenny / Re: Joseph Cox b 1804
« on: Wednesday 18 September 13 10:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I am researching the Cox name in England and am trying to trace where my father went in Australia between 1926 to 1932. He went by boat at the age of 15!! I believe that he would have linked up with relatives and I am aware that he worked on a farm in Wagga Wagga for some or all this time.

He came from the east End of London - his name (Horace) Gordon Cox with a birth date 30 June 1910. Any information anyone can supply would be appreciated.

Andy Cox

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