Henry Cox, Silk merchant, Shoreditch

[ShaunJ]

William appears on two documents his own marriage and that of his daughter both occasions he is a cork cutter

Just to add to that list, when the other daughter Alice Agatha Cox married in 1890 she also names her father as William Cox, a cork cutter. At least they are all very consistent.

I have to say that I am not at all convinced that the Henry Cox, feather merchant, at 8 Motley Street in 1851 is the Henry Cox, silk merchant, named on your William's marriage certificate. It's the wrong occupation and there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a family connection. Who were the witnesses to William and Charlotte's marriage ? Any clues there?

[ShaunJ]

There's a report in the Brighton Gazette of 25 September 1856 (page 6 column 1) concerning a lad named William Cox, who was apprenticed to Joseph Lugard, a cork cutter. He was up before the Bench for not doing his work.

[Milliepede]

I too have doubts the silk and feather Henry Cox are the same and William never appears as a son on census with his father to confirm.

I would make a point which can lead people astray - just because father is not noted as deceased it doesn't mean he wasn't deceased.  Always something to bear in mind 

[clalouha]

Yes I too have my doubts that Henry Cox on the marriage certificate is the Henry Cox in the census as William isn't there, but he was the only Henry Cox I could find and thought that Silk and Feather Merchant were close enough! But happy to concede it's not him!
Witnesses to William and Charlotte's wedding are a Robert Gathercoal and a Charles Johnson ?? which don't seem very helpful! Interestingly Charlotte's father is an artificial flower manufacturer which is also why I decided to try to make silk merchant fit with Feather merchant?!
Appreciate that William might be deceased even though not marked as such, have tried to find a death record but difficult to know where he would have been living.

[ShaunJ]

Robert Gathercoal was a cork cutter too. He married Mary Cane in Bethnal Green in 1867. (Ancestry has transcribed his name as Robert Catherine in the London Marriages dataset)

I found another William Cox, cork cutter, in Leeds, born 1831. His father was John Cox, a weaver.

[clalouha]

Had found the William Cox cork cutter in Leeds he gets married to someone called Emma Tate in Leeds in 1867 so I decided he wasn't my William, really good info about Robert Gathercoal being a cork cutter too!