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Henry Cox was baptised at St. Mary's Church in Nottingham in 1807. His parents were William and Elizabeth Cox.
St. Mary's Church, Nottingham today
Henry married Mary Anne Marsden at Denby in Derbyshire in 1832. They had four sons and a daughter, all born in the Belper area. Mary died between 1842 and 1849. Henry married his second wife Elizabeth Cocker in Belper in 1849. Henry lived in Hopping Hill Terrace in Milford, a cotton village south of Belper until the 1860's when he moved to Newton in Manchester. For most of his working life he was a shoemaker.
Hopping Hill Terrace, Milford today
William, eldest child of Henry and Mary Anne was born in 1832. He married Jane Harrison in 1856 in Ashton-under-Lyne. They had no children. William worked as an engineer and mechanic in the area now called Tameside (Dukinfield, Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne).
The second son of Henry and Mary Anne was Robert, born in 1836. He married Jane Hall in Belper in 1854.They had four sons and five daughters. He was a painter in Dukinfield and Stalybridge.
Emilia was the eldest daughter of Henry and Mary Marsden. She was born in 1837 in Belper. She married Frederick Gaunt (born Belper 1836), a pottery labourer and coal miner. They had 5 sons and 3 daughters.
Thomas born in 1839 was the third son of Henry and Mary. He married Jane Instone in Manchester in 1869.They had 3 sons and 2 daughters.
Joshua Marsden Cox was the youngest child of Henry and Mary was born in Belper in 1842.He married Hannah Cheetham in 1861 at Belper Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.He moved later to Settle in Yorkshire where he was a cotton loom overlooker. They had 4 sons and 6 daughters. Click here to read about the family of Joshua and Hannah Cox.