Person:William Cox (111)

William Cox was born in 1862 in the parish of St Mellion, Cornwall, the fourth of six children (but the only son) of a gamekeeper named John Cox and his wife Sarah Fox. When William was about six years old, the family left St Mellion and moved to the parish of St Ewe, where they lived at a hamlet called Pengrugla, adjoining the Heligan estate, which is presumably where John Cox worked. William followed his father's footsteps, also becoming a gamekeeper.

After his father's death in 1891, William moved back in with his widowed mother. The 1901 census finds him a 38 year old bachelor living with his mother at Reskivers in the parish of Veryan, about five miles west of Pengrugla. Neither of them were working, describing themselves as 'living on own means', quite possibly not needing to work given that John Cox's estate had been valued at £1151 11s 11d at his death in 1891 - a relatively substantial amount.

William has yet to be researched after the 1901 census.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. William COX, December Quarter 1862, St Germans Registration District, Vol. 5c, page 49

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   RG10/2269/10/12 & RG10/2269/11/13, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address	Pengruglar, St Ewe, Cornwall
   Name	Relation to head	Marital status	Sex	Age	Implied birthdate	Occupation	Birthplace
   John Cox	head	married	male	42	1828/9	Gamekeeper	Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Sarah Cox	wife	married	female	45	1825/6		Derby, Derbyshire
   Catherine Cox	daughter		female	13	1857/8	Scholar	St Mellion, Cornwall
   Lucy Cox	daughter		female	11	1859/60	Scholar	St Mellion, Cornwall
   William Cox	son		male	8	1862/3	Scholar	St Mellion, Cornwall
   Sarrah Cox	daughter		female	4	1866/7	Scholar	St Mellion, Cornwall
   Elizabeth Cox	daughter		female	2	1868/9		St Ewe, Cornwall

3. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   RG11/2304/76/10, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address	Pengruglar, St Ewe, Cornwall
   Name	Relation to head	Marital status	Sex	Age	Implied birthdate	Occupation	Birthplace
   John Cox	head	married	male	52	1828/9	Gamekeeper	Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Sarah Cox	wife	married	female	56	1824/5		Derby, Derbyshire
   William Cox	son	unmarried	male	18	1862/3	Gamekeeper	St Mellion, Cornwall
   Sarah Cox	daughter		female	14	1866/7	Scholar	St Mellion, Cornwall
   Elizabeth Cox	daughter		female	12	1868/9	Scholar	St Ewe, Cornwall

4. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   RG13/2217/109/6, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address		Reskivers, Veryan, Cornwall
   Rooms occupied		4
   Name	Relation to head	Marital status	Sex	Age	Implied birthdate	Occupation	Status	Birthplace
   Sarah Cox	head	widow	female	77	1823/4	Living on own means		Derby, Derbyshire
   William Cox	son	single	male	38	1862/3	On own means		St Mellion, Cornwall