Samuel Drake Cox.

[geckogirl]

I have had to rethink from my previous posting.
Samuel Drake Cox was the father of my great, great grandmother Elizabeth Cox, she was born in Dorset 1795 married JHP Balne.By the way, her fathers name was passed on to me by another descendent who also has no other information. I have everything on the Balne family. She was married in 1817, Poole. I think way back a female Drake married in to the Cox family.
I know there is a Drake who married an Ann Cox but surely in those days a man would not have taken the maiden name as his surname. Yes, as a middle name.
Look I have poured through dozens of records until I am dizzy. I know the family were in the Dorset/Devon area, any help would be appreciated.
Elizabeth's brother Samuel Drake Cox was born 1890 lived in the Channel islands 1851.

[stevefoote]

Hi geckogirl
I am also looking for the origins of the Samuel Drake Cox who lived in Guernsey. He had a son called Samuel Drake Cox who was born in Guernsey in 1819. Drake Cox senior was listed as Boot and Shoe Maker in Guernsey in the 1841 Census, and junior was a miller.  They also owned ships, and one of them was a butcher, but I have not worked out which one yet! He was declared bankrupt in Guernsey in 1852.
They disappeared from Guernsey after that - any idea what happened to them?
I will let you know if I discover any more.

[geckogirl]

Hi there ! I really have no idea what happened to the family ! If they went bankrupt they may well have gone back to the mainland and I was trying to find the origins of Elizabeth. I do know the record of her marriage is at Dorset history archives. Living in Australia, I can hardly make the trip and they want a lot of money to search.
I will look again and see if I can find anything of use to you. I find that RootsUK are extremely good when it comes to census records, you get to see the occupations of people.
Thank you for getting in touch, anything I learn will pass on.

[stevefoote]

I have found the following at a web site about Argentina Genealogy, and wondered if this is the same family:

"To the memory of Samuel Drake Cox.
Murdered near Concordia
3 September, 1870
and of Samuel Cox
son of the above
who died in Entre Rios in the year 1858."

see http://www.cementeriobritanico.org.ar/Victoria/401al500/460.html

[geckogirl]

What an amazing find ! If it is the same family it would have to be a son as SDC would have been a 100 years old.
Will have to look for passenger ships to Argentina.Not an easy task.

[kilmartin]

There are occasional times when a man will take on his mothers surname if it is a requirement of inheritance.   This may crop up in more well to do backgrounds when there is a danger of the name dying out.  I'm sure it happened with the Clavell family in Dorset and of course one of Jane Austens brothers took on the surname Knight.

In less well to do situations when a child was born before marriage they may have kept the mothers surname.  Not often perhaps but I have come across this.

I don't know anything about the Cox and Drake families of Child Okeford but there were also Drake and Cox families around the Winfrith Newburgh area of Dorset.

Good luck with your search.
Kilmartin