Person:John Cox (151)

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John Cox
b.1790/91
d.7 Feb 1863 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
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Name John Cox
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1790/91
Marriage 17 Jun 1830 Lympstone, Devon, Englandto Caroline Wolfe
Death[2][3] 7 Feb 1863 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, EnglandBays Hill Terrace
Burial[1] 14 Feb 1863 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, EnglandNew Burial Ground
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“Afterwards Maj.-Gen. John Cox, K.H. Was present at eleven general actions in the Pa. Had a compound fracture of his left arm at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo. Defended a battery with his company at Waterloo. D. at Cheltenham, 7th Feb., 1863. There were two officers of this name in the Rifles in 1815, who appear to have been brothers, and of the same family as Sir Richard Cox, Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland.”
— Charles Dalton: The Waterloo Roll Call. With biographical notes and anecdotes, second edition, revised and enlarged, London (Eyre and Spottiswoode) 1904, p. 199.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Cox, in Gloucestershire, England. Burials, 1813-1988.

    “Age. 72 yrs”

  2. ↑ COX John K.H., in England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).
  3. ↑ Deaths, in Cheltenham Chronicle, 17 Feb 1863
    p. 5.
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