SNIPPETS
If anyone would like to contribute any small interesting item, please let me know. Amusing Will!
The will of Allison Coxon of Cowpigshill, in the Parish of Lanchester, County Durham, England, dated June 28th.1587 stated:- To The Proctor of Lanchester Church, for my broken and forgotten tythes, 3 shillings and 4 pence.Coxon Puzzle!
I found two locations on Fryer's 1822 Map of Northumberland, England. One called Coxon's Field in the Parish of Elsdon, in the Ward of Coquetdale and the other Coxon's Hill in the Parish of Chollerton, in the Ward of Tindale. Although they don't exist now, the approximate sites can still be identified on the current Ordnance Survey maps, 1:10,000 scale maps. Has anyone any idea who they were called after. I have also come across the COXON name in streets in Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, Westoe, Gateshead, Byker, Little Usworth and Witton Gilbert.An Early American Coxon!
A fellow researcher from America visited a Pennsylvania History Society and said that they had an early map of the area (1681), indicating landowners and one of these was a Coxon. He says that William Penn started selling land to Englishmen around 1680.Coalminer Puzzle!
My great uncle, Thomas Coxon, was born in South Hetton, County Durham, England in 1839 and was a coal-miner. One of his daughters, Sarah Coxon, was born in Prussia in 1872, just after the Franco-Prussian war. Thomas and his family must have only stayed over there for about 2 years, as his next daughter was born in Cambois, Northumberland, England in 1874. I would like to hear from anyone who could tell me why a Durham coal-miner went out to Prussia.Three Bibles!
A kind person sent me the following from a personal Census of the Rev.at Rothbury, NBL in 1816. - Plainfield, NBL.George COXON is aged sixty-three years, has been ten years hind to Mr.GREY and has a wife, two sons, three daughters, THREE BIBLES, goes to meetings.Memorial erected by Public Subscription!
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England
William Coxan, Trooper of the Imperial Yeomanry, who was killed in action at the Battle of Rhinester, September 5th.1901