Bible of Joseph and Mary <b>HANCOX</b>, Dudley England
THE HOLY BIBLE*
CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED,
BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.
OXFORD:
PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY
INSTITUTED IN LONDON IN THE YEAR 1804;
AND SOLD TO SUBSCRIBERS AT THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE, EARL STREET BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
M.DCCC.LX.


First Page:
Joseph HANCOX Born September 2, 1814
Married to Mary EDWARDS (Born February 3th (sic), 1837 written on page 2)
December 7, 1863
At Pensnett Church

David HANCOX Born May27th, 1837**
Hubert HANCOX Born May 19th, 1839**
George HANCOX Born July 31st 1841**
Benjamin HANCOX Born January 13th 1844**
Sarah HANCOX Born December 6th, 1845**
Esther HANCOX Born March 30th, 1848**
Benjamin HANCOX Born February 24th, 1852**
Priscilla HANCOX Born June 4th, 1855**
Ezra HANCOX Born February 20th, 1865
Joseph Newton HANCOX Born August 14th 1867
Joseph HANCOX Born September 15th, 1868
Margaret HANCOX Born February 15th, 1775 Died November 24th, 1868 (nee' SILVERS)
Walter Lawrence HANCOX Born April 16th, 1870

Second Page: Mary HANCOX Born February 3rd, 1837
Frederick James HANCOX Born Nov 8th, 1872
Mary Elizabeth HANCOX Born May 3rd, 1877

"We lost our little Polly March the 31, 1879"
{Refers to Mary Elizabeth??)
"We lost Our Dear Father after a short illness on August 27, 1889
Deeply Lamented"
(Refers to Joseph Hancox Sr.)

Maud Laura HANCOX Born 6th November, 1881
Died at New Village On the 11th Day of September, 1890

Third Page:
Joseph HANCOX Junior born 1868 son of Joseph HANCOX Born Sep 2 1814
Married to Rebecca JOHNSON
Of Old Hill Staffs. on March 24 1913

Frederick Arthur Son of Joseph HANCOX Junior Born Sep 9 1913

"Mother passed away August 16th 1914
Deeply Lamented"
(Refers to Mary Edwards HANCOX)

Written again, in a different hand:
Frederick Arthur HANCOX Son of Joseph HANCOX Born Sep 9,1913

Joseph HANCOX departed this life August 23rd, 1932

* This Bible is in the possession of Sue and Joe HANCOX, son of Frederick Arthur HANCOX
Thanks to them for sharing it with me and allowing publication.

** Children with two asterisks after their name were the offspring of Joseph HANCOX and his first wife
Ruth BAKER HANCOX, who died sometime prior to 1861.
These names seem to have all been written in the same hand at the same time,
and I believe it is a list written after the marriage of Joseph to his second wife,
Mary EDWARDS in 1863, not at the time of the children's actual births.
I presume that this was the personal bible of Mary EDWARDS, with data copied from the deceased Ruth's Bible.

An interesting note regarding the family:

Joseph HANCOX' first wife, Ruth BAKER (c. 26 Jul 1812, Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester, England)
had a sister Elizabeth BAKER (c. 28 Dec 1817, Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester, England)
Elizabeth married Joseph's cousin Thomas HANCOX, son of Herbert HANCOX and Sarah SHAW.
Herbert b. 1787 (Thomas' father) was the brother of Benjamin HANCOX b. 1785 (Joseph's father).
Thomas and Elizabeth brought their family to Troy, NY in the 1870's. Two of Joseph and Ruth HANCOX' children,
Hubert and George, also moved to NY. In Troy, Thomas's son Isaac and Joseph's son Hubert were best friends,
first cousins, and second cousins. They lived in the same house at times, and are buried together in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy NY.


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