John Williams Cox

[CassT]

On the 23 Dec 1841 a ship "William Jardine" arrived in Sydney  Australia, on board was John Williams COX a married male  49yrs of age  Carpenter, his parents John and Anne were both deceased. The ship had left Plymouth on 2 Aug 1841

John  Williams Cox wife Charlotte had been "left in England". The records state that John Williams native place was Harrow on the Hill Msex.

Also on the ship were John Williams daughters Susannah 21yrs,  Eliza 16ys and son John 18yrs their Native place is recorded as  St George the Martyn Ln.

Can anybody give me a clue as to how I could find out when Charlotte died , I cannot trace a record of her arriving in Australia, or any information of John Williams parents John and Ann. and lastly where is St George the Martyn

Thanks
Cass
Sydney , Aussie

[Valda]

The last question is the easiest. St George the Martyr is a parish in London (since at the time London was actually only the square mile Middlesex officially) in the Holborn area of London. If you check the IGI you find

MARY ANN COX 
Birth:  26 JUN 1814   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn,
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX 
Mother:  CHARLOTTE 
CHARLOTTE COX 
Birth:  18 JAN 1816   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn,
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX 
Mother:  CHARLOTTE
JANE COX   
Birth:  11 SEP 1818   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn, 
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX 
Mother:  CHARLOTTE 
SUSANNAH COX 
Birth:  09 AUG 1820   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn,
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX  Mother:  CHARLOTTE
JOHN COX 
Birth:  19 JUL 1823   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn,
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX 
Mother:  CHARLOTTE 
ELIZA COX 
Birth:  20 DEC 1825   Keppell Street Russell Square Baptist, Holborn, 
Father:  JOHN WILLIAMS COX 
Mother:  CHARLOTTE

For John Williams Cox and his siblings you need to search St Mary's Harrow on the Hill Middlesex baptisms. The registers are at the London Metropolitan Records Office. I think only the earlier registers have been indexed.

There is this potential marriage on the IGI
JOHN COX 
Spouse:  ANN WILLIAMS 
Marriage:  17 OCT 1791   Saint James, Paddington, London, England
People did come into London to marry and then return to their own parishes

I presume you can find Charlotte's maiden name from an Australian death certificate of one of her three children who emigrated? If one or more of her three older daughters survived she may well have chosen to remain in England with them. I would think your main hope of finding her is to wait until there is a computerised country wide index of the 1851 and 1841 censuses and search that in the hope of finding a potential Charlotte Cox living with one of her daughters. The Ancestry website now holds censuses indexed 1861-1901. They will be working on 1851 at present. Nothing shows for a potential Charlotte in 1861.

Regards
Valda

[CassT]

Valda

Thank you for all the information and tips,  and also  for all the time you must have spent finding this info.

I will follow up the tips and pass on your info to other members of the family


Cass

[kimhat]

Hi Cass
I'm also descended from John Williams Cox and Charlotte, through son John. Where do you fit in? I do not yet have a confirmed death for Charlotte either, but have the family on the 1841 census just prior to emigration (you may have this by now yourself, as your posts are now a couple of years old).
There is another son, Henry, missing from the list Valda gave you.
Post again if you want to continue swapping notes.
Regards
Kim

[CassT]

Hi Kim

sorry about the delay,

I am a G G Grand daughter of Henry Cox, one of his daughter's Alice Ellen Cox was my Grandfathers mother.


regards

Cass

Hi Cass
I'm also descended from John Williams Cox and Charlotte, through son John. Where do you fit in? I do not yet have a confirmed death for Charlotte either, but have the family on the 1841 census just prior to emigration (you may have this by now yourself, as your posts are now a couple of years old).
There is another son, Henry, missing from the list Valda gave you.
Post again if you want to continue swapping notes.
Regards
Kim