When Melba Cox was born on 21 July 1911, in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, William Moroni Cox, was 29 and her mother, Minnie Josephine Burgon, was 32. She married Lyman James Ball, Jr. on 11 April 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950 and Enugu, Nigeria in 2000. She died on 16 June 2000, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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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Possible Related NamesMy name is John Burgon. I lived in Chino California and met Melba and Paul Geyer in the late 1980's. I found out that she was my father's cousin (Stanley Burgon) She and Paul lived in Ontario and had …
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