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John Burtenshaw Cox
Erickson:
COX, John Burtenshaw b. 1800, arr. 23.8.1829 per Marquis of Anglesea in Lautour's party, with wife Sophia b. 1800 & 2 chd. Chd. John P.B. b. 1826 d. 1839, Richard b. 1828, George b. 1831 d. 1831, Emily b. 1832 d. 1861, Elizabeth b. 1836 d. 1904, Albert b. 1838 d. 1845, Sarah b. 1841. He was to be bailiff in charge of works for Lautour, but the venture failed. Worked as a labourer. To Victoria.
Cox appears at #857 in the 1832 Census with his wife and three children: John, Richard, and Emily; George having died. He is said to be from Bruntworth, which does not exist, and may be a typo for Brockworth, Gloucester.
Listed in Errington (2023) as being jailed on the Marquis of Anglesea, 12 March 1830, for misconduct as a servant.
References and Links
Berryman, Ian 1979 ed., A Colony Detailed: The First Census of Western Australia 1832, Creative Research, Perth.
Errington, Steve 2023, Locked Up In Fremantle 1829-1856: Prisoners and Patients on the Marquis of Anglesea and in the Round House, Hesperian.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 23 August, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/people/coxjohn.html (it was last updated on 3 September, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.