Edna Leigh Coxford

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• Name: Edna Leith Coxford
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Edna married Murray Nauss Zinck in 1941 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. Murray (son of Harvey Zinck and Minnie Zinck, Married Name) was born on 4 Nov 1909 in Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada; died on 31 Dec 1991 in Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried in Bayview Anglican Cemetery, Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living

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Notes:

Occupation: painter and wall paperer

(Research):Occupation: Painter

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Death:
Role: Obituary: family

Died:
Coxford, Thomas - In hospital Saturday, Oct 24, 1970, age 96 years, dear husband of the late Maude Armstrong and father of Edgar, of Cato, N.Y., Mrs J. Carson (Grace), Mrs M. Zinck (Leith), Chester, N.S.; Alfred, Howard of Montreal; Stewart, Mrs G Mather (Doris); brother of Mrs Janie Black, Thunder Bay, also survived by 28 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Funeral was held today, Monday Oct. 26, from Fred N. Garrett Funeral Home, 584 Somerset Street, Ottawa, at 2 p.m. Interment St. James' Anglican Cemetery, Carp Ont.

Thomas married Nancy Maud Armstrong on 20 May 1903 in Carp, Huntley Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. Nancy (daughter of John "Long John" Armstrong and Mary Elizabeth Hedley) was born on 23 Feb 1878 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 17 Nov 1966 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in St. James Anglican Cemetery, Carp, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Maude Armstrong
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Notes:

(Research):Occupation: Housewife
Nancy: the Armstrongs were among the first settlers in the Almonte area.

Died:
Ottawa Journal - November 18, 1966 - Coxford, Nancy Maud

In nursing home on Thursday, Nov. 17, 1966, Nancy Maud Armstrong, beloved wife of Thomas Coxford, 72 Arlington Ave., aged 88 years, and loving mother of Edgar, Rochester, New York; Alfred, Ottawa; Howard, Montreal; Stewart, Ottawa; (Grace) Mrs. Jack Carson, Ottawa; (Leith) Mrs. Murray Zinck, Chester, Nova Scotia; (Doris) Mrs. Gordon Mather, Ottawa and sister of (Eleanor) Mrs. William Armstrong and (May) Mrs. William Falls, both of Ottawa, 28 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren. Resting at the Fred N. Garrett Funeral Home, 584 Somerset West. Service in St. Luke's Anglican Church, Saturday, 1:30 pm. Interment St. James Anglican cemetery, Carp, Ontario.

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Married:
Perhaps St. George's Anglican Church, Ottawa?

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Died:
The Almonte Gazette, Friday 2 Dec., 1904, page 8

?b?Obit - Jas. Coxford?/b?
Mr. James Coxford, of Blakeney, had been ailing for some time and a couple of weeks ago he went to an Ottawa hospital for treatment but nothing could be done for him, and he returned home last week. From that time he gradually sank until on Wednesday the end came. The deceased was born in London England, and came with his parents to Canada at Ottawa (then Bytown) and here the deceased served his apprenticeship at shoemaking. When a young man he came to Ramsay and spent a year with Robert Gomersall, a tanner, at Blakeney. He afterward opened a shoe shop a Snedden's Corner at the ninth line, about fifty years ago, and removed to Rosebank Messrs James and Thomas McCann. Of a family of eighteen children born to them sixteen are still living, two having died in infancy. John and David are in Rochester; Arch and James, in Vegerville, N.W.T.; Thos. in Carp; Wm. and Mrs. Fulton, in town (Almonte); Mrs M. Snedden, in Ottawa; Mrs. W. Barker, 8th line, Ramsay, and Mrs. Forsythe, Misses Jessie, Mary, Jean and Robt. Alf and Herb, at home. the funeral takes place today (Friday) at 12:30 o'clock to the eighth line cemetery.

Buried:
Plots B420 to B449 stone 492 pg 27

James COXFORD died Nov 30, 1904 aged 69 yrs.
His wife Mary KENNEDY died Feb 10, 1905 aged 66 yrs.
Alfred E. COXFORD died May 12, 1908 aged 26 yrs.

James married Mary Jane Kennedy on 20 Aug 1858 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West. Mary (daughter of Moses Kennedy and Anne McCann) was born on 8 Feb 1836 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland; died on 8 Feb 1905 in Blakeney, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 10 Feb 1905 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Janie Kennedy
• Name: Mary Jane Kennedy
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Notes:

(Research):Record indicated Mary Kennedy age as 69 when she died but Obit in Almonte Gazette and record on grave stone lists her at 66 yrs old at death. also date of death on stone indicated Feb 10, 1905 but obit indicates she died Feb 8, 1905. Birth date from Northern Ireland should be verified as it may be out by three years.

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Died:
The Almonte Gazette, Friday 10 Feb. 1905 front page.

Obit - Mrs. James Coxford
After several weeks of illness following upon the death of her husband, which occured a couple of months ago, Mrs. Jas. Coxford, of Blakeney, passed away on Wednesday at her home in Blakeney, aged 66 (69) years. the deceased was a woman of a very quiet disposition, possessed of a warm heart and ever willing to do a good turn for fried or neighbour. The funeral takes place on Friday at 2 p.m. to the eighth line cemetery.

Buried:
Plots B420 to B449 stone 492 pg 27

James COXFORD died Nov 30, 1904 aged 69 yrs.
His wife Mary KENNEDY died Feb 10, 1905 aged 66 yrs.
Alfred E. COXFORD died May 12, 1908 aged 26 yrs.

Notes:

Married:
Married at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Auld Kirk?

Name:?tab?James Coxford
Age:?tab?22
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Place:?tab?England
Residence:?tab?Ramsay Township
Spouse Name:?tab?Mary Kennedy
Spouse Age:?tab?17
Spouse Gender:?tab?Female
Spouse Birth Place:?tab?Ireland
Spouse Residence:?tab?Ramsay Township
Marriage Date:?tab?20 Aug 1858
Father Name:?tab?John Coxford
Mother Name:?tab?Esther Hull
Spouse Father Name:?tab?Moses Kennedy
Spouse Mother Name:?tab?Anna McCann
County:?tab?Lanark
Microfilm Roll:?tab?1030058

Name:?tab?Mary Kennedy
Age:?tab?17
Birth Year:?tab?abt 1841
Birth Place:?tab?Ireland
Residence:?tab?Ramsay Township
Marriage Date:?tab?20 Aug 1858
Marriage Place:?tab?Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Father: Moses Kennedy
Mother: Anna McCann
Spouse: James Coxford

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• Name: Long John Armstrong
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Died:
Ottawa Journal - January 21, 1929 - John Armstrong

John Armstrong, an old and highly respected resident of Carp, Ont., died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Luther S. Wilson, of Carp, Sunday. Mr. Armstrong was well-known in the district in which he had been residing, as well as in March and Cumberland, where he had also lived. His death is deeply mourned by many friends.

Born in Huntley, 87 years ago, he resided in that township until shortly after his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Headley, of South March, when he moved to Cumberland. Following a residence of a few years there, he moved with his family to March, where he lived until he retired from active life about two years ago. Since that time he had made his home with his daughter. He had been a farmer all his life. In religion he was an Anglican, attending church in South March and, latterly, in Carp. His wife predeceased him about 30 years ago.

Surviving him are four sons, William, of Westboro; John, of Ottawa, and Nicholas and Albert, of Hazeldean; four daughters, Mrs. L.S. Wilson, of Carp; Mrs. Thomas Coxford, of Ottawa; Miss Ellen Armstrong, of Ottawa and Mrs. William Falls, of Huntley; two brothers, Christopher and Irwin, of Huntley; and four sisters, Mary, and Mrs. A. Armstrong, of Huntley; Mrs. William Reid, of Carp and Mrs. H. Wilson, of Ottawa. One son and two daughters predeceased him. Thirty-three grandchildren and 12(?) great-grandchildren also survive.

The funeral will be held from the home of his daughter, Mrs. L.S. Wilson, Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock. Rev. Canon R.B. Waterman, of Carp, will conduct the funeral services, and interment will be at South March.

John married Mary Elizabeth Hedley in 1867. Mary (daughter of William Hedley and Bridget Younghusband) was born in 1848 in March Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1896; was buried in St. Johns Anglican Cemetery, South March, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Eliza Headley
• Name: Elizabeth Headley
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• Name: James Coxford
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Notes:

?u?Coxford - Norfolk County, England?/u?

George and Mary Browne, friends (of Sylvianne Penner) from York, Yorkshire, England ran across a Coxford sign while visiting friends and kindly sent these pictures and ordnance survey map and did some research on the history of Coxford.

The nearest town of any size is Fakenham (52 degrees 50'n, 0' 51'E) about eight (8) miles from Coxford. There is a Coxford heath (see map) that is wet and partly wooded, unusual for the area. There was a Coxford Priory in the Middle Ages and the nearby village of Rudham benefited from the Market and Fair granted to the Priory. A lot of the stone from the ruins of the Priory were used in the foundation of a house called Raynham, built in the 1620's for Sir Roger Townsend. To quote from a Reference Library book: "The Plundering of Coxford for building stone created one of the most attractive monastic sites in Norfolk. There is much less masonry work than at most other abbeys, but its atmosphere of space and isolation is unique. Founded about 1140, dissolved in 1536 to become the property of the Duke of Norfolk and eventually passed on to the Townsends in 1597".

The ordnance map was obtained from the farmer who now owns this property. Very little of the Abby ruins remain. Cosford, according to the farmer consists of his farm and farmhouse, plus three other cottages. As George states, that's Coxford. not much nightlife I'm afraid.

Note: on the map of England, the names of to towns, Blakeney and Pakenham that are in close proximity to Coxford and undoubtedly, these names were transplanted to Canada to locales where the Coxfords settled.

?u?History of the Coxford Name
?/u?
These notes are according to Fred Sadler, a historian of Norfolk, England and rewritten by Sylvianne Penner of Calgary, AB

1066: Norman Invasion

1085: Stonework on St. Mary's (see photos) at East Rudham began.

1135-1154: Coxford Priory founded (Old Ruins) by William Cheney (a Norman) during Stephen's
Reign (originally at East Rudham). It was a Augustine Priory and was relocated in 1216.

1140: Normans came to this area, prior to this time the Saxon's constructed the Churches using flint a wedging between the stones. The Normans who brought their own stone masons used a cement mortar between stones so that many of these structures are still standing and in use.

?u?"Cokesford"

?/u?This is a Norman name which is possibly the origin of the name Coxford.
Cokes were Norman Landowners.
Ford meaning where there is no bridge, a shallow spot in the river.
Coxford (Cokesford) meaning landowners at the ford in the river. They were a higher class of society, not in the working class and may have come from Brittany.
Cokesford may have been spelled Cotesford. at one time.

1216: The Monks moved their headquarters from St. Mary's to Coxford Priory (Coxford Abby ruins) at the beginning of Henry III's Reign.

1301: Vicar of Rudham was John de Titeshale, Prior and Convent of Cokesford.

1305: Vicar of West Rudham was William Rademelde, Prior and Covent of Cokesford.
1534 John de Coxford, alias Mathew, was the last Prior.

1537 The Abby was dissolved
The Earl of Lester (who was a Coke, landowner) started the farm course rotary system of farming, soon after.

1623: Henry VIII ordered the absolution of Catholic Monasteries. Three churches, the Coxford Abby and two others were ordered destroyed. About the same time Black Death wiped out the Village of Sengham, which surrounded Coxford Abby. Sengham means home of Seng (Saxon). About 800-1000 survivors of the Black Death left Sengham and established Gates End about one mile away.
Gates End or perhaps Gates Hill is what is know at Tattersett today.
The Black Day is reported to have been brought to the area by a Tax Collector from London.

1719: A small pot of Roman coins was found in the Coxford Abby ruins in an underground passage, indicating that Romans were in this area at one time.

?u?Some Well Know People from this Area:?/u?

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) He was the Prime Minister for King George I and King George II. His original home is in the area.
Earl of Orford (a Walpole) He was a Prince of England.
Many of these Walpoles known at the Earls of Orford are buried in St. Martin of Tours Church, at Houghton.

?u?The Coxford Group of churches:
?/u?
Seven churches, all in the area of the Coxford Abby Ruins
St Mary's at East Rudam
Norfolk Trust at West Rudham
St. Martin's at New Houghton
St. Mary's at Sydestone
St. Mary's at Totterford
Norfolk Trust at Barmer
All Saints at Tollersett

See media file photographs courtesy of Kathleen (Coxford) Thomson.

?u?Rosebank (Blakeney) and the Coxfords

?/u?Re: Bosebank Re: lots 42 Ottawa Street.
Property abstracts in OA of James Coxford, who died in 1904.
Succession to his widow Mary Coxford.

It looks as if the factory workers were all family members.

Wm Coxford factory operative and wife
Annie Barker w/o Wm. B. yeoman
Esther Forsythe widow
John Coxford boiler maker and wife
Mary Coxford spinster
David Coxford yeoman unmarried
Jesse Barker w/o Robert Barker, yeoman
Agnes Snedden w/o Mansfield Snedden, clerk
Thomas Cosford painter & wife
Eliz. Maud Fulton w/o Alex. Fulton, Sectionman
Robt. Coxford yeoman, unmarried, teacher
Sarah Jane Coxford spinster

Who together with parties of the second part are all heirs-at-law and heiressess at law of Mary Coxford, widow, late of the Village of Rosebank.
(2 Jul 1906)

Sold to Herbert L. Coxford, cheesemaker & elford E. Coxford, painter for $1.00 and assumption of Mortgage.

V6654 Q. C. Deed 1911 Reg't, 2 June 1913.

Wm Coxford factory operative & wife
Annie Barker w/o Wm. B., laborer
Wm. Forsythe carpenter, unmarried
Arthur Forsythe clerk
Kate Cochrane w/o Alex Cochrane
James Forsythe clerk, unmarried
Amy Alice Forsythe spinster
John Coxford rankker? & wife
Jas. Coxford foreman & wife
David Coxford baker
Jesse Barker w/o Robt. B.
Agnes Snedden w/o Mans. S., dairyman
Thomas Coxford painter & wife
Eliz. Maud Fulton w/o Alex. F., sectionman
Robt. Coxford mill operator & wife
Sarah Jane Black w/o Chas. Black, yeoman

Sold to Herbert S. Coxford, cheesemaker for $1.00

1913, Herbert sold to David McGill and this property came to John Hunt & Geo. Lowry (Joint tenants) in 1956 for $4300.00.

Peter McDougall owned the woolen Mill in 1891.

David McGill, son of John McGill & Jane McCann.

The house David McGill lived in is still standing, all enclosed, photocopy, it is opposite the building which was the General Store for many years, on the main street of Rosebank, now called Blakeney.

John Coxford: Occupation: stone mason
John died in a rock slide while working on the Rideau Canal. John may have also used the name James. The name John Coxford appears on his son (James) marriage certificate. I have not been able to determine which ship and exactly when the Coxfords came to Canada, but it is know that Mary was born after they arrived, so must of been in 1837-1838. John worked as a stone mason on the Rideau Canal and according to oral stories he was killed in a Rock Fall in the 1840's. There were two rock falls, the question is which one?

(Medical):There may be some historical confussion in that the construction of the Rideau Canal was between 1826-1832, although there was probably construction for years afterward, such as Lockmaster houses . As the workforce became available after completion of the Canal the stone houses of the area were built from 1834 on. It would seem more likely that John Coxford was killed in a quarry site or construction site post Rideau Canal construction.

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John married Esther Hall on 4 Jul 1823 in Wood Dalling, Norfolk County, England. Esther (daughter of James Hall and Mary Long) was born in 1801 in London, England; was christened on 9 Aug 1801 in Wood Dalling, Norfolk County, England; died on 29 Feb 1908 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Esther Hall
• Name: Esther Hull
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Notes:

Occupation: housewife
On the marriage Certificate of her son James, Esthers name is Esther Hall Coxford. Hence the confusion as to which is the correct spelling of her last name. I have not been able to find her final resting place. We know that she resided somewhere near Ottawa. She may have lived in Nepean, as it is next to Ottawa were Halls and Hulls resided at this time.

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Baptised: Methodist

Moses married Anne McCann in 1835 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Anne (daughter of John McCann and Elizabeth Mooney) was born in 1814 in County Down, Northern Ireland; died on 17 Feb 1889 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ann McCann
• Name: Anna McCann
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• Alt. Birth: Abt 1817, Carrigallen, County Leitrim, Northern Ireland

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Christopher married Nancy Anne Dorning. Nancy was born on 17 Dec 1824 in Huntley Township, Carleton County, Canada West; died on 16 Dec 1877 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Bridget Younghusband. Bridget was born in 1823; died in 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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