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Entry Type	Family
Surname	Cox
Place	Twyford
Place	Twyford
Epithet	Family
Biography	The first John Cox was born c1836 and died in 1933. John Cox did not know his place of birth and variously gave it as Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The 1861 census shows an unmarried blacksmith named John Cox, born in approximately 1836 and living in Barrow on Trent, who had been born in Thurlby, Lincolnshire. By 1871, Cox and his wife Sarah were living in Newton Solney. They had moved to Twyford by the time of the 1881 census, and he is recorded as the only blacksmith in Twyford in Kelly's Directories from 1881 to 1906. The 1911 census records that John Cox was living in retirement at Field View in Smalley, and that he Sarah had had 11 children, one of whom had died. Census records in combination with the General Register Office indexes show that the child who died was Alice Eliza Cox (1871-1872). John Cox died on 16 January 1933, and his will, proved in London, left an estate valued at £775 to
Authorised Form of Name	Cox; Family; Twyford

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