Thomas Coxe of Clent

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Philip Coxe.

This relationship is recorded in Philip’s will.

Mother: Joan.

Spouse: Elizabeth Rotten. Married 15 June 1569 in King’s Norton, Worcestershire.

The marriage is recorded in the parish register and in the will of Elizabeth’s father John Rotten. Elizabeth is recorded as mother in the baptism records of her children. Elizabeth Rotton is given as Thomas’s wife in the 1663 Visitation of Staffordshire. 

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Alice Coxe (baptized 21 June 1571 in Clent, Staffordshire)

Dorothy Coxe (baptized May 1573 in Clent)

John Coxe (baptized 1 July 1575 in Clent - buried 1 July 1575 in Clent)

Isabel Coxe (baptized July 1576 in Clent - buried 1 January 1654/5 in Clent) married Francis Taylor 1 July 1601 in Clent.

John Coxe (baptized 26 February 1578/9 in Clent - died 1644) married Dorothy Nashe 11 February 1625 in Worcester.

Ambrose Coxe (baptized 22 April 1581 in Clent)

William Coxe (baptized 23 March 1583/4 in Clent - buried 16 September 1658 in Clent) married Ann Wight 14 November 1621 in Halesowen.

Evidence

from Amphlett (p. 120):

…These lands are now known as the Church Lands, and the money arising from them, or from the proceeds of the sale of, or from land received in exchange for, part of them, is applied to the maintenance of the fabric and services of Clent Church. The names of the first trustees, to whom the lands were surrendered on the 22nd of April, 1616, were Humphrey Penn himself, William Sparry, Gent., John Sparry, Gent., William Underhill, Thomas Cox, John Sparry of Wassell, and Thomas Heath ; and on the 4th September, in this same year, Humphrey Penn having died meanwhile, these persons were admitted tenants of the property, with the exception that Roger Penn, Gent., took his father’s place, while John Cox was admitted instead of his father, Thomas Cox, and an addition was made to the original number in the person of Thomas Sparry. No other trustees were appointed till 1750, and the charity seems to have been administered all this time by the Cox family.

(p. 121):

[In 1628]...The list of jurors discloses another trade carried on in Clent at this time, for John Cox is described in the record as “loker” or locksmith, and the same appellation is attached to his name when it occurs in the parish register.

References

Amphlett, John. A Short History of Clent. (1890).

Dugdale, William et al. Staffordshire Pedigrees based on the Visitation of that County. (1912).

“The Visitations of Staffordshire in 1614 and 1663-4” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (part II, vol. 5, 1884).

The will of Phylypp Cox of Clent. Proved 1561 in the Consistory Court of Worcester.