Birth: 31 July 1806 South Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Father: Edmund (Edward) Cock 1766-1830
Mother: Elizabeth Bates 1765-1841
Christening: 4 August 1806 St Andrew, South Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 26 October 1829 St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Eliza Sage 1810-1872
Death: October-December 1882 Shoreditch, Middlesex, UK
Eliza Cock (Cox) c1830
Emma Cox (Cock) c1833-1909
Susan Cox (Cock) c1837
Mary Ann Cock 1841
Henry Cock 1845
Maria Cock c1847
Alfred Cock 1849
Ellen Cock 1854
William Henry John Cock 1860
Entry in Ancestry Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Elisha Cook (sic) baptised 4 August 1806 in South Lopham parents Edward Cook (sic) and Elizabeth Bates.
Two entries in FreeReg for Elisha Cock born 31 July 1806 baptised 4 August 1806 at St Andrew, South Lopham, Norfolk, parents Edward Cock and Elizabeth Bates.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for Elisha Cook (sic) born 31 July 1806 baptised 4 August 1806 in South Lopham parents Edward and Elizabeth Cook (sic). "April 1806 [...] Elisha Son of Edward Cock and Elizabeth his Wife late Elizabeth Bates Spinster was born July 31st 1806 and Privately Baptized August 4th 1806 Received into the Church".
His brother was born 27 April 1810 and baptised 6 May 1810 at St Andrew, South Lopham.
Entry in Ancestry England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837 for Elisha Cock and Eliza Sage in 1829 in Shoreditch St Leonard. "Cock Elisha - Eliza Sage T Shoreditch 1829.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Elisha Cook and Eliza Sage on 26 October 1829 at Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage banns of Elisha Cook (sic) and Eliza Sage in 1829 at Saint Leonard, Shoreditch: Shoreditch High Street, Hackney. "Page 283 Marriages solemnized in the Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex in the Year 1829 Elisha Cock of this Parish Bachelor and Eliza Sage of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Banns this Twentysixth Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and Twenty Nine [he signed his name, she made her mark] In the presence of James Sage [and] Sarah Sage [both made their marks] No. 847".
His two daughters were baptised on 21 December 1834 at St Leonard's, Shoreditch when he was a tin plate worker living in New Inn Yard.
In the 1841 censusas Elisha Cox aged 30 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), not born in Middlesex, a tin plate worker, and living with Eliza (wife?), and Eliza, Emma and Susan (daughters?) in Pitfield Street, St Leonard Shoreditch, Two other familes lived at the same address.
In the 1851 census as Elisha Cox aged 45, born in Norfolk, a tin plate worker, and living with his wife (Eliza) two sons (Alfred and Henry), and four daughters (Eliza, Maria, Mary A and Susan) at 126 Long Alley, St Leonard, Holywell, Shoreditch. Middlesex.
In the 1861 census as Elisha Cox aged 55, born in Norfolk, a tin plate worker, and living with his wife (Eliza), three sons (Alfred, Henry and William), and four daughters (Ellen, Emma, Maria and Susan) at 136 Long Alley, Holywell, Shoreditch St Leonard, Middlesex
In the 1871 census as Elisha Cox aged 65, born in Stopham (sic - in the index, S Lopham on the iriginal) Norfolk, a tinman, and living with his wife (Eliza) and two daughters (Ellen and Maria) in Boston Road, St James, Walthamstow, Essex.
His wife died in April-June 1972 in West Ham.
In the 1881 census as Elisha Cox aged 74, born in Diss, Norfok, widowed, a retired tin manufacturer, and living with his daughter (Ellen), and granddaughter Ellen Dell) at 50 Boundary Road, Walthamstow, Essex.
Death of Elisha Cocks in FreeBMD in October-December 1882 in Shoreditch (1C 128).
There are thirty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Elisha Cock/Cox.
Elisha Cock was Felicity's third great granduncle.
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