Hi there Joboy
I am related to Joseph Fox (the one who married Mary Barry) via his brother Enoch Fox (which is no doubt how the name Enoch filtered it's way into the family!)
I am curious as to whether anyone (you or Rob Couzens) have ordered the marriage certificate of John Fox and Rose Maries in 1888 to see if the details match up with the details from the marriage cert from his second marriage to Elizabeth?
I noticed that there seem to be a fair few inconsistencies with the stories and the records and I am trying to get my head around it all.
1. John's marriage cert to Elizabeth in 1899 states his mother was Mary Powell Goode.... this doesn't match up with Mary Barry. Despite the fact the newspaper article does tie him up to being the same man who married Rosalinda who he was suspected of murdering in 1899.
2. His age on the marriage cert gives him as having a year of birth as 1867 - making him the younger brother out of he and William - the one who died in 1894 of the gunshot wound, not the older brother as the papers made out to be.
3. The paper's stating he had been born in England but came over with his parents - unless this was in some way covering up for the fact his father Joseph/James had been a convict, as no doubt that would have caused further suspicions on his character.
4. I have seen Rob Couzen's tree on Ancestry which also has children Henry b. 1871, Esther b. 1874 and Alexander b. 1877. None of these have births registered, unless for some reason they were under another surname. Esther married John Philip Litton in 1892 and she died in 1903 - which gives a year of birth around 1874. Perhaps by the time Mary nee Barry died in 1904 her other children had died or were living elsewhere and had fallen out with her hence not being named on her death notice?
It seems this family - if they are definitely all connected and are the same family, were quite unfortunate with all the tragedies they had. My line from Enoch also had some sadness with Enoch dying quite young and his widow re-marrying and then being widowed again quite quickly when her husband went to America and died there. Enoch and his wife had two children - one died in infancy and their surviving child Elizabeth went on to marry a man 21 years older than her who had been recently widowed and they had eight children of which 4 died in infancy and then her husband died in 1907 - after 22 years of marriage. She remarried several years later but was widowed again after just 9 years of marriage.
Please feel free to message me!
Regards
Alex
