Birth: July-September 1873 Parkgate, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK
Father: George Adams 1847-1918
Mother: Fanny (Fanney) Wright 1850-1925
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1895 Rotherham, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Samuel Cox 1876-1931
Death: October-December 1953 Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Samuel Cox 1896-1896
Beatrice Cox 1897-1897
Ivy Cox 1899-a1911
John William Cox 1901-1967
Mary Cox 1902-1902
Gladys Evelyn Cox 1904-a1911
George Cox 1907-a1911
Birth of Laura Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1873 in Rotherham (9c 567).
Her three sisters were born in Rotherham in 1875 to 1879, the first in Parkgate.
In the 1881 census as Laura Adams aged 7, born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (George and Fanny), and four sisters (Fanny, Jessie, Lucy and Rachel) at 54 Greasbrough Street, Kimberworth, Yorkshire.
Her sister and brother were born in Rotherham in 1883 and 1888.
In the 1891 census as Laura Adams aged 17, born in Parkgate, Yorkshire, and a servant living with Joshua Willey (aged 30, born in Rotherham, Yorkshire and an engine fitter), his wife (Elizabeth A aged 31 and born in Eckington, Derbyshire) and daughter (Mary A aged 3 and born in Rotherham, Yorkshire) in four rooms at 7 Hope Street, Kimberworth, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Marriage of Laura Adams and Samuel Cox in FreeBMD in April-June 1895 in Rotherham (9c 960).
In the 1901 census as Laura Cox aged 25, born in Parkgate, Yorkshire, and living with her husband (Samuel), son (John M) and daughter (Ivy) in two rooms in a cottage on Millstone Hill, Aston with Aughton, Yorkshire.
Her son was born in Rotherham in 1907.
In the 1911 census as Laura Cox aged 39, born in Parkgate, Yorkshire, married for sixteen years, seven children, three of whom had died,and living with her husband (Samuel), two sons (George and John William) and two daughters (Glayds Evyln and Ivy) in four rooms at 22 Tavistock Street, Hendon, Nelson, Lancashire.
Her husband died in Rotherham in 1931.
Death of Laura Cox in FreeBMD in October-December 1953 aged 80 in Huddersfield (2b 717).
There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Laura Adams born in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1874, parents George Adams and Frances (Fanny) Wright.
Laura Adams was the sister of Rachael Adams, wife of Charles Edward Read, Felicity's second cousin three times removed.
Adams Gendex
Croucher Gendex
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