Researching Henry Coxwell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 85 people with the Coxwell surname? In that year Coxwell was ranked number 3494 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Henry means "ruler of the home" and is of German origin.
Records of Henry Coxwell on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Henry Coxwell and the Coxwell Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Coxwell Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Coxwell family tree.
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Coxwell Family Tree Databases
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Coxwell Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Henry Coxwell. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Henry Coxwell
Henry Tracey Coxwell
Henry Tracey Coxwell (2 March 1819 – 5 January 1900) was an English aeronaut and writer about ballooning active over the British Isles and continental Europe in the mid-to late nineteenth century. His achievements included having established and led two military balloon companies in Cologne, Germany at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, leading the first aerial trip in England for purposes of photography (with Henry Negretti in 1863), piloting a British Association flight from Wolverhampton, England that achieved a record altitude with James Glaisher in 1862, reaching at least, and perhaps as high as, as well as founding The Balloon, or Aerostatic Magazine (in 1845) and collecting his experiences in an autobiography, My Life and Balloon Experiences (from 1887 to 1890). He was referred to as the foremost balloonist of the last half of the nineteenth century by the English-language periodical, Illustrated London News, in January 1900.
Source: Henry Tracey Coxwell, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Coxwell
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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