Birth: Circa 1796 Bressingham, Norfolk, UK
Father: James Read 1772-1837
Mother: Anne Blowers 1776-1818
Christening: 7 January 1798 St John the Baptist, Bressingham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 8 November 1825 St Andrew, South Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Elijah Cock (Cox) 1805-1892
Death: 3 December 1859 St Andrew, South Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Buried: 10 December 1859 South Lopham, Norfolk, UK
Edward Cock (Cox) 1826-1900
Sophia Cox (Cock) 1829-a1841
Harriet Cox (Cock) 1831-a1851
Eliza Cox (Cock) 1833-a1891
Mary Ann Cock 1837-1854
Entry in FreeReg for Frances Read aged 2 years on 7 January 1798 at St John the Baptist, Bressingham, Norfolk, parents James and Anne Read.
Two entries in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the baptism of Frances Read on 7 January 1798 in Bressingham, Norfolk, parents James and Anne Read. "Baptisms 1798 Janry 7th Frances Dr of James & Anne Read aged 2 years". Her brother William was baptised on the same day. The same information is in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 , but it is a different original.
Her eight brothers and sisters were christened at St John the Baptist, Bressingham from 1798 to 1816 and her mother was buried on 9 August 1818 at St John the Baptist, Bressingham.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of Frances Read and Elijah Cock on 8 November 1825 at St Andrew, South Lopham, Norfolk, witnessed by Thomas Cock and John Fuller.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of Frances Read and Elijah Cock on 8 November 1825 in Norfolk. "Marriages [...] Elijah Cock Bachelor of this Parish and Frances Read Spinster of this Parish were married in this Church by Banns this eight day of November in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five [both made their marks] in the Presence of Thomas Cock [who made his mark] and John Fuller". The baptisms entries at the top of the page imply this is for South Lopham.
Her son was born in North Lopham but baptised on 22 October 1826 at St Andrew, South Lopham when they were living in South Lopham.
Her three daughters were baptised on 15 March 1829, 6 February 1831 and 21 July 1833 at St Andrew, Lopham.
Her daughter was born on 29 August 1837 and baptised on 1 October 1837 at St Andrew, South Lopham.
In the 1841 census as Frances Cox aged 46, born in Norfolk, and living with Thos Cox (aged 3 months and born in Norfolk who I believe to be later known as Thomas Allen Read), Mary Hambling (aged 71), Thomas Hambling (aged 21) and Willm Hambling (aged 11) in Hall Lane, South Lopham, Norfolk. Her husband was living with the rest of the family at their home in Park Lane, South Lopham.
In the 1851 census as Francis (sic - on the original) Cox aged 54, born in Bressingham, and living with her husband (Elizah (sic)), three daughters (Eliza, Harriet and Mary Ann), a granddaughter (Anna Maria Cock (daughter of Harriet)) and a nephew (Thomas Allen Read aged 10 and born in Berkely Mary (sic - I think it is Berkeley Square), Middlesex) at Low Common, South Lopham.
Death of Frances Cox in FreeBMD in October-December 1859 in Guiltcross (4B 177) which included Lopham.
Entry in FreeReg for Frances Cox buried 10 December 1859 aged 67 at St Andrew, South Lopham, Norolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the burial of Frances Cox on 10 December 1859 in South Lopham, Norfolk. "Page ? Burials in the Parish of South Lopham in the County of Norfolk in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty nine Frances Cox No. [blank] of South Lopham on December 10th aged 67 yrs".
Entry in Find a Grave for Frances Cock maiden name Read, born 1796, spouse Elijah Cock, daughter Mary Ann Cock, died 3 December 1859 in South Lopham, Breckland, Norfolk, and buried in St Andrew Churchyard, South Lopham, Breckland, Norfolk.
Eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Frances Read.
Lopham is 2.5 miles west of Bressingham on A1066.
Thomas Allen Read is believed by some to be the (adopted?) child of William and Charlotte Read nee Cox, his true father being Arthur Algernon Capel 6th Earl of Essex, but is also believed by others to have been brought up by the family nurse who lived to be 104. Charlotte could be a sister of Elijah Cox. However the only William and Charlotte Read in Norfolk were living in Tattersett in 1841 and she was born in Rudham according to the 1851 census - this could however provide the connection between Susannah Cox and William Belton which has always been a mystery. The only likely nurse is Mary Cole who died in Guiltcross in 1872 aged 103. However she can be traced back through the census to 1841 living in Buckenham, and there appears to be no connection with Thomas Read except that he married there. The Ashfield Family Tree has an entry for Thomas Allen Read born 1840 in Berkeley Mews, Middlesex and brought up by the Cox family in South Lopham, and married Eliza Ashfield of Winfarthing at the Particular Baptist Chapel, Old Buckenham.
Frances Read was Felicity's third great grandmother.
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