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Cox Family Stories |
Line of descent |
"It's the Italian in me", was Alice Mary Cox' response when people remarked about her hair. Teresa's grandmother, Alice, was 91 when she died in 2000 and had luxuriant, natural, dark hair all her life. This photo of her was taken in her 70th year when holding Emma, her first great granddaughter.
We didn't know the details of this Italian connection and Alice didn't want us to investigate either, not for a long time. Alice was born in Haggerston in 1900 which was eight years after the death of her maternal grandmother, Rebecca Emma Maffia. The Maffia surname (pronounced Mah-fee-ah) suggests Italian origins and later research was to show that Rebecca's grandparents both came to London from Lombardy in Italy during the early 1800s and initially settled in the area around "Little Italy", being Clerkenwell and Holborn. Rebecca had married James Samuel Cox (1854-1902) in Bethnal Green, their home borough, in 1877. James was descended from Thomas Cox who lived in the very early 1700s.
Thomas Cox and his descendants lived in London’s East End for over 250 years and are the closest we get to real "East Enders" in the family. Their income was derived from their activities in the dairy trade (in early censuses they are ‘cow keepers’), as publicans and as French polishers. All these activities are typical of working class families in the Spitalfields / Bethnal Green / Shoreditch area of London in Victorian times.
James Samuel Cox' father was John Cox (1823-1867) who was a licensed victualler of the King’s Arms in Wilkes Street, Spitalfields in 1857. This pub was attached to the famous Truman and Hanbury Brewery. He later moved to The Princess of Prussia in Prescot Street and from there we believe he was a publican in various pubs in Rotherhithe, Surrey.
The line of descent to Ken or Teresa can be seen at the foot of this page.
The family structure and tree can be accessed from the notes icon shown to the right and by the links on the Families page on this website. The family trees for Maffia and Grimoldi are also available.
Below are stories about people and places taken from the family history. For stories awaiting publication see the table on the Home page.
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