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Family History Notes - Cox

JOHN COX b 26 March 1826 Acton, London d 20/12/1903 Laura

Son of Thomas Cox Senr. Acton (town among the oaks), a twin town of some 3,400 people in the 1820s, 8 miles west from St Paul’s Cathedral - on the main road to Oxford and later on the Great Western Railway. Grew very fast with the coming of the railway and the two towns merged. By the 1840s, a town of villas built by prosperous merchants.

Early left an orphan with his two sisters - Anne & Bessy. A Mr Evans of Abireregan, Wales, adopted Anne, aged 8. She lived at Abirergan until 1871; moved to Frondieg until 1881; finally to Green Villa, Llangollen, where she died 1896.

John worked in Wiltshire before marriage; then emigrated to SA.

m - ELIZABETH LLOYD-OWEN b c 1821 - d 22/11/1891 Willow Bank, Laura Eltham Parish Church, Kent, 2 January 1849.

1. Embarked on the Barque Susanne 20/1/1849 London. Arrived Pt Adelaide 16/5/1849.

2. Went by bullock dray to Dr Everard’s cattle station, at Myponga,

4. Removed to Currency Creek c1850-1852.

5. Family at Calthorp Farm (George Burgar’s), when daughter Carey south of Adelaide.

3. Catherine (Kitty) born there.

Annie born. John Cox was a sheep farmer at Currency Creek. He was a volunteer and cavalryman, and rose to the rank of colour sergeant.

6. Removed to Pine Creek, near Laura 1873. Farm called The Willows/later Willow Bank. Locality also known as Booyoolie. He won prizes at the 1st Booyoolie Agricultural Society Show, held in August 1872.

7. Elizabeth Cox died at The Willows, near Laura 1891 influenza. She had attended the deathbed and funeral of a neighbour, where she caught the disease. Largely attended funeral, people ‘anxious to show this last tribute of respect to so old a friend and neighbour’.

8. John Cox went to Coffs Harbour NSW March 1896. His son, TA Cox, was living here at the time.

9. John Cox returned to SA. Lived at Laura with the Sunmans. Died 1901.

FAMILY OF JOHN COX (1826-1903) & ELIZABETH LLOYD-OWEN (1821-1891)

Catherine (Kitty)

b 2/1/1850 Myponga - 31/12/1921 Swan Hill.

m 29/2/1876 Bible Christian Church, Pine Creek (Rev’d J Dingle)

Arthur William Moore (son of William Moore of Mooreland, Currency Creek)

b c1852 England d 22/6/1903.

William 34 (husbandry) & Ann 27, with three children - Anna (7), Edwin (5), Arthur (2), arrived aboard the Taymouth Castle 1854.

AW Moore was a blacksmith in Lochaber SE in 1882. By 1903, when Catherine’s father died, widowed Kitty was living at Swan Hill Vic. She lost her husband and father in the same year.

Carey Annie

b 22/7/1852 Currency Creek d 15/4/1931 Laura

m 27/8/1879 Laura

Robert Corba Sunman

b 15/3/1850 Currency Creek d 17/7/1916 Laura

The Sunmans lived in Herbert St, Laura. Before her marriage, Carey had taught at King’s Own Town and Finniss, before going to Laura with her parents. She then taught at Laura, Blyth, Burra and Caltowie. After her marriage, she lived on Coonamodo Station in the north-west pastoral country. Returned to Laura in 1888, where she lived for the rest of her life. Lloyd (Pt Augusta), Robert (Laura), Belle, Daisy, Laura, Mrs RH Mills (Beetaloo).

Louisa Lloyd

b 11/3/1854 Currency Creek d 18/4/1882 Burra. Buried at Penwortham.

m 24/5/1881 St Mark’s Penwortham

John Roach Junr, of Aberdeen

b d

Lived at Pareora, Redruth.

John Roach Senr died suddenly of hydatid of the lung on 4/11/1881 at Aberdeen. He had a flour mill at Penwortham, which burnt down Friday evening 5 December 1873. Observer 13/12/1873. The whole neighbourhood was for a time lit up with fiery splendour. … As the flames spread to the upper floors the spectacle was grand,though sad, and the falling through of the millstones, gear, tackling and roofs caused bursts of sparks. … The place is the scene of a complete wreck, the walls only of the structure and the boiler shed remaining. John and Thomas Roach gave evidence at the inquest. p 405. Great bushfires between Melrose and Appila several days later. Terribly hot weather and shortage of water. Great winds caused damage and duststorms very thick. Chained and forked lightning. Tremendous thunder. Chronicle 13/12/1873 p402.

25/4/1874 John Roach of Penwortham to build a mill at Kooringa. On a SA Mining Association allotment, midway between Redruth, Kooringa and Aberdeen. On the Main North Road. Now the site of a service station. There had been quite a campaign in the late 1860s for a flour mill at Burra.

Bramley Butterworth’s flour mill built at Burra at the same time.

31/10/1874 Mill nearly complete. Architect Rowland Rees. Sara Brothers contractors.

A wheat store added in December 1875.

Louisa Lloyd Roach died of a pelvic abcess - husband John Roach miller.

27/5/1884 John Roach remarried. Jane, youngest daughter of W Silver, Norwood, bride’s parents’ home, Rev’d S Mead. J Roach must have died in the 1910s. Jane Roach was still living afterwards.

22/2/1896 Mrs John Roach Senr, nee Jane Hosking, died at Burra.

c1920 Henry Roach sold the mill to Thomas & Co, Pt Adelaide. They ceased milling c1946.

Mary Woollacott, Burra Community Library, 7 Bridge Tce, Burra 517

Alice

b 9/11/1856 Currency Creek. d 6/3/1910 Adelaide.

m 13/9/1875

Charles Kentish

b 17/2/1850 Rye Farm, Goodwood. d 24/12/1917 Adelaide.

Grandma Butler left 13/11/1902 for WA to marry Grandpa. Probably the RMS Victoria.

Thomas Arthur

b 9/8/1857 Currency Creek. Died 1915 Coffs Harbour NSW

Thomas remained on the farm at Laura until his mother died 1891. Then he travelled extensively in WA and NSW, until finally settling at Coffs Harbour. His father, John Cox, came to live with him between 1891-1902.Fanny Elizabeth

b 28/3/1860 Currency Creek d 194? Laura.

m

Hermann Reich

b d

This family was living in Delmenhorst, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, when her father died in 1903. Perhaps she left for Europe in November 1900. Fanny lived in Germany between 1901-1908, when she returned to Australia and settled at Coffs Harbour. At Laura again from the early 1930s.

Application 119454 Cox farm, Currency Creek

20 August 1856

Mortgage to Thomas William Reeves plumber and glazier Adelaide 20/8/1856 £90 at 12.5 % for three years - to be repaid on on 1/5/1859. Balance of £105, of principle and interest paid 30/4/1866.

Together with all buildings, fences, timber, minerals, ways, watercourses, rights to easements, members and appurtenances whatsoever ...

Brought under the RPA 15/4/1872. Sections 2021 & 2023 Hundred of Nangkita.

Chronicle 10/10/1874 p 261 Accident in the Sunman household at Currency Creek.

THE EDWARD GOOD FAMILY OF HYDE PARK

Patient detective work upon an apparently trivial clue often proves fruitful in illuminating the personal lives of our ancestors. Such a situation has come the way of the Kentishes because family member Mrs Joy Hampton has unearthed a small photograph inscribed ‘To Ada from Annie Christmas 1902’, once a treasured possession of her grandmother Ada Butler nee Kentish. Just a few further words which someone else added at a later date mentions that Annie was the sister of Ethel Good whose mother was a friend of Ada Butler’s Aunt Emily. The two Good sisters themselves were close friends of sisters Rose and Ada Kentish. Thus, the scene was set for a trail which led back to South Australia’s earliest years of white settlement with the arrival of the Kentishes on the Canton in 1838 and the John Good family on the Cleveland the following year.

!GOOD, John (c1783-23/2/1856) Born Plymouth, Devon, England. Died Hampstead SA. Painter from Plymouth. Farmer; Hampstead, Main North Road,

!GOOD, Mrs John nee Annie COMO (//c1797-5/9/1875) Sister, Rosetta (widow of Thomas Collis, of London) died 23/2/1869, 55 Bouverie-street, Carlton Vic, aged 69.

!GOOD, Rosetta Ann (//c1820-//) Straw plaiter from Plymouth. m 3/11/1844 Holy Trinity Adelaide, William Hillier

!GOOD, Maria (//c1822-//) Dressmaker from Plymouth. m 5/1/1850 Holy Trinity Adelaide, William Rodolph Thomas. Eldest son of the late Captain William Thomas, of 13th Light Infantry

!GOOD, Mary Jane (17/7/1826-17/11/1901) m 28/1/1843 St John’s Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas.

!GOOD, son (//c1828-//) Not yet identified.

!GOOD, son (//c1830-//) Not yet identified.

!GOOD, Catherine Louisa (//c1833-3/8/1904) Died Broken Hill NSW Obit Observer 6/8/1904 p670e. m dnr Edmund John Eyre Clerk of the Court Jamestown, Terowie. Son of Dr Eyre. .

!GOOD, son (//c1836-//) Not yet identified.

!GOOD, Edward (//c1838-31/1/1886) Died Hyde Park SA, ‘at his residence, very suddenly from heart disease’. Compositor (Register newspaper); Adelaide (Regent St), West St, Hyde Park. Baptist. m 25/9/1872 WK Thomas residence Adelaide, Eliza S BEASTON (//c1847-//) Father; Donald.