W. ANDERSON, Esquire
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Elizabeth ANDERSON
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Lt. Col. Thomas COX, (Retired)

Elizabeth ANDERSON

  • Born: India
  • Marriage: Lt. Col. Thomas COX, (Retired)

bullet   Other names for Elizabeth were Mrs. Elizabeth COX and Mrs. Thomas COX.

bullet   User ID: P00033385.

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bullet  General Notes:

Our knowledge on the origin of Thomas Henry’s maternal grandmother is limited to her country of birth, India, daughter of W. Anderson, Esquire. Her father was not a member of the military, which makes research more difficult.

Historians have for a long time ignored the contribution of women in society, preferring the male point of view and achievements, but this is also partly due to a lack of documentation regarding women.

Fortunately, in our ancestry, some women left their trace and such is the case, among others, of Elizabeth Anderson Cox. According to her will, Elizabeth lived the remaining years of her life in a boarding home, in Douglas, Isle of Man.

When she died fifteen years after the death of her husband, she left a sum of 3077 pounds sterling and 17 shillings. It was divided between her two living sons, her daughter Elizabeth Ellen (widow of Francis), her three grandchildren Thomas Henry, Elizabeth Frances and one other named William Robert Cox.

One share was distributed to the people "that were close to her during the last six years". The letters that accompanied the estate documents also showed that in March 1867, Thomas Henry Grantham, his sister Elizabeth Frances and their mother lived at 19 Caprern Terrace, Plymouth in co. Devon. Elizabeth Frances inherited her share when she turned 21 years old, such were the laws at the time. She was not yet married.


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Elizabeth married Lt. Col. Thomas COX, (Retired). (Lt. Col. Thomas COX, (Retired) was born in 1779 and died in 1851.)


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