Hello, hello
I am also a descendent of Joseph Cox born 1805 at Cahel. I have the following information which is taken from page one of chapter one of a PhD dissertation on on the Cox family of Wagga Wagga.
"Joseph Cox was ... at least the fourth generation to occupy an estate near Cashel. The Cox family had apparently been traditionally allied with the professions - principaly law and medicine. Richard Frederick Cox relates the following amazing tale of Joseph's family having early acquired an expensive lease of town land in Cashel which brough a correspondingly large income through rental. the family regarded the lease as sound for 99 years, but on the death of Joseph's father, the lease was found to be valid only for 'three lives', his father being the third generation to hold the lease. The Cox family twice took their case to law, spending a great deal of money in the process and having finally lost, they were ruined.
Eventually, Joseph went to County Limerick where his paternal uncle, a surgeon, employed him as an assistant. Dring Joseph' term with his uncle - probably in about 1824 - he was called to the bedside of his uncle's dying son. Before dying, this cousin extracted a promise from Joseph that he would look after his wife and four children. Joseph did more than that: within two years, he married Ann Cox and became stepfather to his four second cousins.
Joseph and Ann produced four children of their own, and when the youngest of these, William, was nine months old, Joseph and Ann with their eight children boarded the Lady Macnaghten at Cork Harbour. They came as assisted immigrants."
Here my information runs out, but I think I know where to find more, though it will take some weeks.
Anneonymous
