Judith Ayre reported on John Moxon (born in the mid 1790s) who, with an accomplice Charles Robinson, turned to highway robbery to earn some money. Due to their amateurish methods, they were soon apprehended. Both were convicted and sentenced to death. But John escaped the gallows in favour of transportation for life, and by early May 1817 he was…

MX68 is our smallest Tree and is headed by another John Moxon who married Phoebe Teel in Kings Lynn, Norfolk on 19 March 1794. They had two sons, John and Robert, both born in Nottingham in 1796 and 1803 respectively and who were both transported to Australia in 1818 and 1821 respectively. But we do not know what Tree the father is descended from…

In the Moxon Magazine for April 2004 there was a double page article about the exploits of John Mox(h)am (his name was sometimes spelled with an ‘h’ and sometimes without). Born in 1658 in Topsham in Devon, he married Mary Lyle in the same town in 1697. Their children included Robert (1702/3); Isaac (1705); Lyle (1706); and Nicholas (1710). John Mox(h)am was a fishing…

MX83 is another very small Tree, and this is based in London. George Moxon, whose parents were William and Elizabeth, was born in Holborn, Middlesex, in August 1803. On 11 February 1827 he married Susannah Pickett in St Pancras. Two of their children died as infants, but their third child, George, certainly lived until the age of 11 as he is recorded in…

Agnes Helen Moxon wrote to us in 1987 and enclosed a family Tree going back a couple of generations. Her maiden name was Shanks but she seems to have recorded all the relatives of her husband, Harold. Following discussion at the Salford Gathering this has been further researched; Agnes’s Tree has been corrected and now forms part of a new Tree, MX102. This Tree goes back to…

In 1992 Graham Jagger received a letter from Val Lancaster. This gave some information (but no sources) for William Moxom (Muckson) and family from the late 18th century plus the Protestation Oath Roll of 1641/2. William Moxom appears in MX01 as the son of Nathaniel Moxon 1710-1760. Can we find the source for his marriage? And for the children that Val listed? Is there any evidence…

Who wrote this poem? The handwriting suggests that it was written in 1883 – but was it an original poem by T Moxon or was he simply copying out a poem he had found? Was he a sailor on board the SS Loch Etive or was he staying/living near Loch Etive in Scotland at the time? SS Loch Etive was a fully rigged ship built…

Second Lieutenant Hugh Cecil Moxon of the Bedfordshire Regiment was born in 1896, the son of The Revd E and Mrs M Moxon. He died, aged just 20, of sniper wounds on the front near Loos at 11.15pm on 19th July 1917.

Hugh Cecil Moxon has now been identified as a member of MX21 and the information we found has been duly attached to that Tree.

Thomas Moxon, husbandman of Whitley in Yorkshire signed (with a mark) an indenture of property from Richard Beaumont of Whitley Hall, Esquire. Who was this Thomas? Is this Whitley in North Yorkshire, whereas Whitley Hall Hotel (nowadays) is situated…

John Moxon of Whitby enters into an Indenture with the Rev John Cayley for property in the sum of £800. This was a very large sum of money. Who was John Moxon of Whitby, who is not even described as…?

John Moxon of Bermondsey, Gentleman enters into an indenture with Leopold Redpath of Regents Park, Esquire. The sums involved are very substantial. Who is this John Moxon?

Private H Moxon R M (Royal Marines?) Med Unit (Salford) was awarded the Military Medal in July 1918. What had he done to deserve this? Who were his parents? What happened to him after the War?

In 2000 the Society received a letter from Elizabeth Gervat. In this she outlined the information that she and other Maxons had done towards compiling their family Tree. No connections have been found with either our Moxon or Moxham Trees and it is entirely possible that Maxon came from a different stock. But it seems odd…

A local newspaper printed an article on their front page about Nick Moxon, a Methodist Minister working at that time in Whitley Bay. He was born, if the article is correct, about 1969. Who were his parents – and what has happened to him since this cycle ride?

A tiny news item – but who was Mr Moxon of Lymington? He must have been a wealthy man to be receiving a £100 note in the post. Who was Mr Whitfield of Lewes? A public postal service was introduced in 1635 but it was notoriously slow and expensive. With the introduction of turnpike roads, the service was speeded up…

In the Society’s archive are these random references. There is no note as to where these were found, nor who found them. Can anyone shed any light on any of these? Can the sources be found? Can the families to which they refer be identified? ROBERT MOXON m ELIZABETH REDFERN 13/9/1708 Hathersage, Derbyshire [10 miles SW of Sheffield]GEORGE MOWKSON m JANE STONE 1600 Dronsfield, Derbyshire [presumably Dronfield between Chesterfield and Sheffield]THOMAS MOXON son…

These two references were submitted to Jimmy Moxon in the 1990s. Can anyone work out which families these Moxhams belonged to? And what became of George Moxham after he was transported?

Who was this Joseph Moxon of Cambridgeshire? London Evening Standard – Friday 14 February 1890 GUILDHALL. Joseph Moxon, labourer, of Witcham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, was summoned for sending a diseased pig to the Central Meat Market, intending it for human food. — Inspector Allen stated that he was in the market on the 14th January, when his attention was called to the carcase of a pig in the Shop of Mr. Jackson, meat salesman. Seeing that it…

There were a number of Moxons working in the jewellery trade in Birmingham in MX01. Was this Thomas Moxon one of them? Was this the Thomas Moxon who was born about 1837 and left his widow the sum of £91.12.0 when he died in 1902? If he was imprisoned in 1896 for five years was he released early as this man was listed in the 1891 census still carrying out the trade of Jeweller?

This news item appeared in various newspapers. Was this Frederick George Moxon (MX54) born in 1879 in Southwold, Suffolk who died in 1925 in West Ham, Essex? Or a completely different Frederick Moxon? This seems to have been part of a campaign against “Romanish nonsense”? What happened to Frederick and his beliefs subsequently?