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Name

COX, Frederick

Date of Birth

4th August 1860

Place of Birth

Freeling

Date of Death

7th November 1925

Place of Death

Prospect

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery

Lived in Prospect (dates)

 

Addresses in Prospect Council Area

1884 - S&M - Highbury St Little Adelaide; until

1915 - S&M - Carter St, Little Adelaide; until

1921 - S&M - Buller St, Prospect; until

1922 - 61 Prospect Rd, Prospect

Addresses outside Prospect Council Area

North Adelaide (with parents).

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Frederick Cox and Elizabeth Fisher

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Keeping. Born ~ 1861. Died 31/7/1944 at Henley Beach

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

29th August 1882

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Residence of F Cox Snr North Adelaide

Children

 

1883 Edith Gertrude

1891 Frederick

Walter ?Raymond (No birth record in SAGHS)

1899 Ralph

Florence  (no birth/death record in SAGHS)

Occupation(s)

Painter and Decorator

Interests/Activities

Son Walter was killed in an accident in 1929.

JP - resigned 1922.

First Life Member of the Prospect Institute.

Religion/Churches

Highbury St Methodist Church.

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Member of the Painters Board 1919.

Member of the Abattoirs Board.

President of the Council of the Master Painters Association of Australia.

Prospect Masonic Lodge.

President of the Highbury St Methodist Church Football Club.

Local Government

Prospect Councillor 1900/01 - 1910/11; 1912/13 - 1915/16.

Chairman 1907/08 - 1909/10; 1912/13 - 1913/14

Sources of information

S&M; BDM; The Observer Saturday 14/11/1925 p.45 (Obituary)

 

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