Cox Family History
Cox Name Meaning
English: from Cocke in any the senses described + the
suffix -s denoting ‘son of’ or ‘servant of’.Irish
(Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú
Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if
formed with coileach ‘cock’, ‘rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cox
Name Distribution of Cox Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cox families
 4,290 - 8,578  1,431 - 4,289 |
 1 - 1,430  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cox families
|
173 - 344 58 - 172 |
1 - 57 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cox census records
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Cox Family Origin
Cox Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cox Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cox Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cox census records
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Military Service by Cox
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