The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
NameChristopher’s wife COX ®1485
Death1599
Burial12 Jan 1599/1600, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom ®1463, ®1485
MemoSt.James Parish
Misc. Notes
She was the first wife of Christopher Cox. According to the will of Christopher Cox, she was a women of considerable fortune, being heir to 3 M (?£3000).
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Spouses
Burial29 Jan 1624/1625, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom ®1462, ®1485
MemoSt. James Parish
OccupationMacer (Grocer Or Spicer) ®1463
Misc. Notes
He came from a West Country family.
®1463The Will of Christopher Cox (of Bury St. Edmunds, county Suffolk) dated 7 April 1624. "I X. Cox...being...in health of bodie and minde and willing...to be prepared to leave this sinfull world when the Lord seeth best to call me and beinge of years 70 years ould att Barnabas daie next 1624 (11 June 1624) And havinge receiued extraordinary blessings from the Lord aboue any of my fathers Children I here doe desire to make knowne with earnest humble thanksgiving to my mercifull father in Jesus Christ retorninge to the holy speritt for that measure of illuminacion vouchsafed unto me and all those which the Lord hath given unto me And having by the Lordes great and exceedinge loue granted unto me Two yokefellowes of speciall vnderstanding for the good of their soules & for their bodies The first beinge an heire to 3 M’ And seeing the Lord in mercie in soe manie kindes have granted soe much that I may take serious Accoumpte of them & never to forgett the Lordes benefitts upon my sonnes and daughters.” etc., I ordain my wife Marie my sole and whole executrix. Proved 11 February 1624/5 by Mary Cox, widow of the deceased. (Prerogative Court of Archbishop of Canterbury, Somerset House, London, Vol. Clarke, fol. 25.)
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