When Amy Cox was born about 1844, in Jackson, Alabama, United States, her father, Stephen A Cox, was 37 and her mother, Rebecca Mahan, was 33. She lived in Benton Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1860.
English: variant of Cocke and Cook , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dutch and Flemish: genitivized patronymic from the personal name Cock, a vernacular short form of Cornelius .
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