Talk:Cox Edghill

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His name appears in CLASS LIST of Students and Teachers in Church of England Normal and Elementary Schools, examined before Her Majesty's Inspectors at Christmas 1854, which might help to determine his year of birth, if it is the same person. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 06:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Still alive

The following description of a document for sale at http://www.ancestordocs.co.uk/Somerset.htm suggests that he was still alive in 1912.

84/251 Weston Super Mare - 1912 - Release of Executors of Will of James Cook (Weston Super Mare) who died 1912. Agreement between Executors and Treasurers and Management Committees of Taunton & Somerset Hospital (Taunton), Bridgwater Infirmary and Royal West of England Sanatorium (Weston Super Mare) the Institutions to which Cook left the residue of his estates.

20 page watermarked paper booklet. The first 3 pages contain the text of the Indenture, pages 4 - 13 a detailed copy of the Estate accounts. Page 14 a list of the Hospital Committee members, p 15 & 16 a list of the Infirmary Committee members & p 18 the signature of the Treasurer of the institution.

This copy is signed by Thomas William Warry (Weston Super Mare) - the Sanitorium treasurer and the 14 members of the sanitorium committee :- Harry Herbert Wills (Wrington), Charles Edward Whitting (Uphill), John Jeremiah Jackson Barstow, William Dealtry, George Hancock, William Wheeler Aldridge, John Josselyn Ranson, David Lloyd, John Cox Edghill, Henry Brooke Worthington, Thomas Nicholson Sully, Frederick Sydney Trayes, Henry Morris (Swindon), & Frederick Robert Smith. [see also 84/249 & 251] £29

Eclecticology (talk) 18:04, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Nova Sotia arrival

This is noted in Halifax Evening Reporter, Aug. 21, 1871 at http://www.immigrantships.net/halifaxlists/halifaxarr_depart1871c.html . Spelled "Edgehill". Eclecticology (talk) 18:22, 21 August 2008 (UTC)