Cox of Dunmanway Baronets

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In the topic of Debrett's Corrections, pre-2018 deaths, vol. 3, at https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/rl1EicivO1E , there is a death of a Cox who was agnatically a dynast of the Hamiltons, Viscounts Boyne. This led me to look into how the Cox name got to the Hamiltons:

on the death of Sir Richard Cox, of Dunmanway, 4th Bt., the Dunmanway estate was inherited by his cousin Henry Hamilton, who took the surname "Hamilton-Cox".

There is an interesting account of the drowning death of the 4th Baronet here:

https://mccarthythesquare.com/2019/08/01/the-drowning-of-sir-richard-eyre-cox-4th-baronet-c-1765-1783/

 

 Here is a genealogy I composed of the Cox Baronets:

 

 Sir Richard Cox, of Dunmanway, cr Baronet [I] 1706 (25 Mar 1650-3 May 1733); m.26 Feb 1673 Mary Bourne (d.1 Jun 1715) à issue, including:

1.Richard, d.15 Apr 1725; m.1st Susanna French (d.1716); m.2nd NN

1.1.Sir Richard, 2nd Bt. (23 Nov 1702-Feb 1766); m.13 Sep 1725 Catharine Evans (d.Jan 1768), sister of Lord Carbery

1.1.1.Richard, dvpsp; m.28 Oct 1758 Eliza Turner Becher

1.1.2.Rev. Sir Michael, 3rd Bt. (ca 1730-18 Jul 1772); m.7 Jan 1762 Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Arthur (d.12 Mar 1825), dau of Hugh Massy, Lord Massy

1.1.2.1.son, dvpsp

1.1.2.2.Sir Richard Eyre, 4th Bt. (ca 1765-6 Sep 1783); m.2 Feb 1780 Maria O’Brien (d.28 Jan 1840), sister of 2nd and 3rd Marquesses of Thomond

1.1.3. – 4. two more sons

1.1.5.Mary, d.Apr 1764; m.1750 Joshua Hamilton (d.1784), gson of Viscount Boyne; their son inherited Dunmanway from the 4th Bt. and took name “Hamilton-Cox”

1.1.6.Susannah Evans; m.Daniel Callaghan

1.1.7.Elizabeth Savage; m.John Newman, of Dromore House

1.1.8.dau

1.2.John (14 Apr 1705-    ); m.NN

1.2.1.Richard, d.at Havana

1.2.2.Michael, d.4 Feb 1782; m.Jan 1765 Anna Maria Shea

1.2.2.1.Sir Richard, 5th Bt. (6 Jun 1769-Sep 1786, d.at sea on return from Bengal)

1.2.2.2.Sir John, 6th Bt. (4 Apr 1771-23 Dec 1832)

1.2.2.3.Sir George Matthias, 7th Bt. (24 Feb 1777-1838)

1.2.3.John

2.[6th son] Most Rev. Michael, Archbishop of Cashel (2 Nov 1691 [per Cokayne, though a Wikipedia article says 2 Nov 1689]-28 May 1779); m.1st NN; m.2nd 1744 Anne O’Brien (d.Jan 1745), gdau of 3rd Earl of Inchiquin

2.1.Richard (15 Jan 1745-Jul 1790); m.1766 Mary Burton

2.1.1.Michael (14 Apr 1768-1836); m.Hon. Mary Prittie

2.1.1.1.Sir Richard, 8th Bt., d.7 May 1846

2.1.1.2.Henry

2.1.1.3.Catherine, d.14 Sep 1879; m.1 Jun 1833 William Villers Stuart (21 Aug 1804-7 Nov 1873)

2.1.2.Sir Francis, 9th Bt. (23 Jul 1769-6 Mar 1856); m.Aug 1803 Anna Maria Ferns

2.1.3.Michael

2.1.4.Rev. Richard (20 Sep 1771-1834); m.Sarah Hawtrey

2.1.4.1.Sir Ralph Hawtrey, 10th Bt. (1808-12 Apr 1872); m.1857 Mrs Elizabeth Hone

2.1.4.2.Sir Michael, 11th Bt. (1810-15 Jun 1872)

2.1.4.3.Sir Francis Hawtrey, 12th Bt. (ca 1816-17 Oct 1873); m.6 Mar 1853 Emma Catherine McKellar

2.1.4.4.William Saurin, dsps; m.Mary Miller; he is sometimes said to have survived his brother a short time and suc as 13th Bt.

2.1.4.5.Maria; m. Rev. M Enright

2.1.4.6.Anne; m. Rev. Thomas Lyon

2.1.5.Benjamin

2.1.6.Rachel; m.Ponsonby Hore

2.1.7.Anne; m. Hon. Price Blackwood

 

[On the death of the 12th Bt. The title was claimed by one Edmund Cox and also by one John Hamilton Cox, claiming to be descended from the youngest son of the grantee; Cokayne shows evidence why these claims are likely incorrect, and the claims were rejected by the Privy Council in 1911 and 1915]