Oops Sorry yes St John the Baptist not St mary's. Got confused with what Bill had writtten. The amount of times I typed that in my database you'd think it would have stuck......Grin !!! Sorry Bill to confuse you. Cheers Pam > Egham Hythe is the section of the highway along the river (Thames) between > Staines and Egham on the Surrey side of the river. The parish church is St > Paul, Egham Hythe, but the parish of St Paul was carved out of Egham > parish (St John the Baptist Egham) only around 1930, and there was no > church (nor a chapel of ease) there earlier. (The only St Mary near Egham > is the ancient parish church of St Mary, Thorpe, not far away.) Egham is > in Surrey, but counted in the 19th century for registration purposes as > being in neighbouring Berkshire; I don't know about the Berkshire > connection pre-1837. > > Wheatley is in Hampshire, the other side of Aldershot from the Egham > direction. I can't suggest anything about your William COX. > > Geoff > > Geoffrey Chew > g.chew@rhul.ac.uk > > ________________________________ > > From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of Bill Dalton > > I am trying to work through some apparent problems with a family tree > that I have found that has information in it that pertains to my line. > The person in the tree that I am interested in is one Mary Goldhawk. She > is supposedly baptized Oct. 19, 1692 "in Egham." I have seen it stated > that she was born in "Eghamhithe, near Staines, England." Mary > supposedly had a brother, Abraham, who was born Dec. 18, 1735, in London. > > Mary reportedly married one William Cox, in 1743 in "Eghamhith, > Berkshire, England" This same William Cox was supposedly born in > "Wheatley Parish, County of Southhampton, England" in 1718. Another > source places the birth at being Oct. 16, 1711, in "Eghamhith, > Berkshire, England." {He certainly seems to have moved about a good bit.} > > I have found that there is a Egham located near Staines. I went to > Google and did a search (which I can not now replicate) and found that > there is a St. Mary? Church near some place in the Egham, Surrey area > that is spelled something like Heith. > > Another bit of information from what I have found is that the > grandparents of Mary Goldhawk were John and Sarah Allery who lived near > London. > > Apparently this William Cox that Mary married was the son of a rather > successful merchant in London, involved with shipping and trade with > Norway. From the document I have found is "William Cox was the son of > John Cox and his wife, Mary Banes Cox, and was born in Essex, England in > 1717 or 1718. His mother's family name was Banes. John Cox was a man > of considerable wealth, owned several mills, and was engaged in the > shipping business, --sending vessels to Norway for deal boards. His son > William accompanied him on one of his voyages and brought home a > handsome Norwegian pony." > > Can anyone shed some light on this mess? > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message