Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Ashton was born on 23 February 1840, in Newton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Ashton Jr., was 25 and her mother, Alice Higginbotham, was 25. She married Edward Franklin Cox on 13 March 1856, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 February 1894, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Hannah Cox in household of Edward Cox, "United States Census, 1870"
- Hannah Ashton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Hannah A Cox, "BillionGraves Index"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1859 · Lancashire Rifle Volunteers
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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TIMELINE for the lives & times of EDWARD FRANKLIN COX, SENIOR (1836-1922) and his two wives HANNAH ASHTON (1840-1894) and ANNIE HUGHES (1851-1932), written in August 2017 by Victor John Austin, great grandson of Edward & Hannah
5 Oct 1836Mary Ann Frampton Cox gives birth to a boy. She and her husband Daniel William Cox name him Edward Franklin Cox. Edward is the fifth child of the couple. The Coxes live in the village of …
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