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I am a direct descendant of Edward Hodgetts (born 1830 Cradley) and Maria Beasley or Cox or Cox-Beasley. In the past I have seen the BCC tree and other trees on ancestors.co.uk where it is alleged that Joseph Cox fathered childen with his wife Sarah Beasley and her sister Elizabeth Beasley simultaneously. Although a number of people appear to have carried out a lot of research on this, it still seems quite incredible. I have now obtained Maria's marriage certificate to Edward Hodgetts dated 6 March 1848 and it shows Maria's father as being Joseph Beasley. Could it be that this certificate is in error or is there some other explanation? Does anyone have any further thoughts on this?

here they are on bcc mo & rog

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... onnections

mo & rog wrote:I am a direct descendant of Edward Hodgetts (born 1830 Cradley) and Maria Beasley or Cox or Cox-Beasley. In the past I have seen the BCC tree and other trees on ancestors.co.uk where it is alleged that Joseph Cox fathered childen with his wife Sarah Beasley and her sister Elizabeth Beasley simultaneously. Although a number of people appear to have carried out a lot of research on this, it still seems quite incredible. I have now obtained Maria's marriage certificate to Edward Hodgetts dated 6 March 1848 and it shows Maria's father as being Joseph Beasley. Could it be that this certificate is in error or is there some other explanation? Does anyone have any further thoughts on this?

all the children marriage certs will show joseph as father as it was there mothers who were different sarah & elizabeth ?

here the marriage to sarah

JOSEPH COX
SARAH BEARSLEY
Marriage: 30 OCT 1808 Halesowen, Worcester

joseph & elizabeth they just co habitate no marriage found

it was was still ilegal to marry you wife sibbling then wasnt it ?

note the kids called cox beadsley not cox like his first two were ?

Do we have any bapts for the kids?

I am changing the names to Beasley where there is a doc
Maria marries as Beasley

can we find bapt for these kids pls
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =357273435

dont suppose we have a death for Sarah do we at halesowen?

any census at all for Joseph?

What did Elizabeth marry as
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =639429296

MARK COX - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 14 OCT 1810 Halesowen, Worcester, England
Son of Joseph and Sarah Cox

6. JOSEPH COX - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 07 AUG 1814 Cradley, Worcester, England
Joseph son of Joseph and Sarah Cox Cradley Nailer

Can't find baps for Keziah, Wm, Maria, or Elizabeth.

THOMAS COX - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 01 AUG 1831 Cradley, Worcester, England
Thomas son of Joseph and Elizabeth Cox Cradley Nailer

Linell.

Found a burial at Cradley for Joseph Cox aged 40 3.10.1831. Would be interesting to see if both sisters are buried with him or not??

Linell.

Northern Lass wrote:What did Elizabeth marry as

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =639429296

Don't think they married Jan, think Sarah was still alive a 'menage a trois.' Maybe she moved in with someone else? Who knows these people lived chaotic lives.

Marriage details for Joseph Cox X bach otp and Sarah Bearsley X sp otp. Witnesses were Samuel Parks and Nancy Cox.

HTH Linell.

Thanks Linell will add to Bcc now

any marriage for Elizabeth anyone pls?

There you go Rog and Mo

we dont think there is a marriage for the 2nd one.

And the kids are named as they wished them to be
some as Beasley some as Beasley cox.

I dont think we can do any more on this one so will flag to archive