Private John Cox (1765......1848.)
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of the 102nd who stayed.
Born :
11 January 1765
Where Born : Hanslope,
Buckinghamshire on
Occupation : Soldier
Date Arrived : 14
February 1792
Ship Arrived on :"
Pitt "
Rank on Discharge : Private
Date of Enlistment : 24 May 1791
Where Enlisted : England
Transferred : 73rd Regiment
24 April 1810
Date of Discharge 1810
Where Discharged : Sydney
Died : 6 December 1848
Where Died /
Buried : Longford Tasmania
Parents Names : Samual Cox and Ann
Jennings
Spouse's Name : Anne
Brookes
Date Married : 21 January 1819
Where Married :
Launceston Tasmania
Born :
25 December 1773
Where Born : Worcester,
Occupation :
Date Arrived : 14
February 1792
Ship Arrived on :"
Pitt "
Died :11 March
1837, aged 61
Where Died /
Buried :
Norfolk Plains
Spouse's Parents :
- Descendants
This information supplied by
Diana Aird
- Area Settled :
- Longford
- Children :
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History
& Achievements :
Sydney to Norfolk Island in 1800. In 1810 he and other soldiers of the
NSW Corp (now called the 102nd Regiment) were recalled to Sydney. They
were given 3 choices - discharge & return to England; join an Invalid
Company & remain; or transfer to the 73rd Regt.
John had left his wife and children behind on the island and wanted to
return there. While the Casualty Lists of the NSW Corps do not show his
name at all, nor the names of the other soldiers who left the island with
him, John left th island as a "private" and returned there 5 months later
as a " labourer ". So he was certainly discharged. With him was George
Egglestone, who had also been a private and returned to the island as a
labourer, so you may like to record him too.
John was made a constable on the island and remained there until
everyone was removed at the end of the 1st settlement (1813). He
obviously preferred to return to the island rather than accept one of the
3 offers.
Along with the other Norfolk Islanders, John received a land grant in
Van Diemens Land. He farmed on his property at Longford until his death
on 6.12.1848.
John was born in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire on 11.1.1765. John married
Anne Brookes, a convict, who had traveled to Sydney on the "Pitt" ,
arriving 1792 (same ship as John Cox). Officially they were married in
Launceston on 21.1.1819 (they already had 9 children and had been living
together 27 years!) but were probably married in some sort of civil
ceremony on Norfolk Island by Lieut. Crane.
Details of children and heaps of descendants - see book entitled
"....and begin the World again" by Diana Aird (that's me!)
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- References
- Military records ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church
Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia
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