Joseph Cox (1804 - 1871)

Born 1804 in Castle Connell, Limerick, Ireland

Husband of Ann (Conway) Cox — married 28 May 1826 in Stradbally, Ireland

Husband of Mary (Maloney) Cox — married 15 Aug 1837 in Sydney, Australia

Descendants

Died 23 Jun 1871 at about age 67 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Joseph Cox was born in Ireland.

Biography

Joseph was asked by his dying cousin, to take care of his cousin Oliver Cox's wife and four children, and he married his wife (Ann Conway) and took care of them. Together with their own four children (eight altogether) they sailed on the Lady McNaughten from Cork to Sydney in 1837 as a migrants. Enroute disease broke out,(typhus and measles) and Ann Conway and the youngest two of their children died. On board the children were assisted by Mary Maloney (who had been a family friend in Limerick) and was migrating to Australia with her sister, when both Joseph and his wife Ann Conway became ill. Ann died on board, and Mary Maloney became Joseph Cox's second wife marrying in Sydney in St Marys, on 1st August, 1837. They had eleven children.

Sources

• MarriageNSW BDM Index 262/1837 V1837262 90 COX JOSEPH (marriage) MALONEY MARY (LD) (LD=Roman Catholic Sydney, St Mary's)
• DeathNSW BDM Index 5974/1871 COX JOSEPH (parents) WILLIAM DIED WAGGA WAGGA (WAGGA WAGGA)