Brief Life History of Archibald Thomson
When Archibald Thomson Cox was born on 20 June 1818, in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Charles Cox III, was 33 and his mother, Mary Marsh, was 30. He married Martha Lightbody on 17 December 1850, in Lincoln, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Maitland, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Clifton, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. His occupation is listed as shipwright/farmer in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States. He died on 25 December 1904, in South Branch, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 86.
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- Archibald T Cox, "Canada, Nova Scotia Census, 1861"
- Archibald T. Con, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Archebald T Con, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
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1823
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1861
In 1861, Hants County was divided for court sessional purposes into two districts named East Hants and West Hants.
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Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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