On or before 25th September 1864 Agatha Cox was born to Homersham Cox. She was baptised on 25th September 1864 at St Mary's Church Fetcham, Surrey.
On 24th February 1884 William Owen Stanley [aged 81] died. Monument in the Stanley Chapel, St Cybi's Church, Holyhead [Map] sculpted by [her future husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 33].
Around May 1884 William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 34] and Agatha Cox [aged 19] were married at Tonbridge, Kent [Map]. He the son of Thomas Thornycroft [aged 68] and Mary Francis [aged 75].
In 1891 [her daughter] Rosalind Thornycroft was born to [her husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 40] and Agatha Cox [aged 26]. She married 1926 Arthur E Hugh Popham.
In 1891 [her husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 40] was living at 18 Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington [Map] with his wife Agatha Cox [aged 26] with two children Oliver and Joan.
In 1901 [her husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 50] was living at The Chalet, Redington Road, Hampstead with his wife Agatha Cox [aged 36] with two children Joan (12) and Rosalind (9).
In 1911 [her husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 60] was living at The Chalet, Redington Road, Hampstead with his wife Agatha Cox [aged 46] with four children Oliver (25), Joan (25), Rosalind (22) and Elfrida (9).
On 18th December 1925 [her husband] William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 75] died. He was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery Oxford [Map].
In 1926 [her son-in-law] Arthur E Hugh Popham [aged 36] and Rosalind Thornycroft [aged 35] were married. She the daughter of William Hamo Thornycroft and Agatha Cox [aged 61].
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1958 Agatha Cox [aged 93] died.