Hartwell - home of Reuben & Maria Clarke Cox...

these were my great great grandparents, parents of Sidney Cox's father, William Cox. William was born in 1852.

As always, click on a photo to view an enlarged image.








St John The Baptist Church


We searched the graveyard for Coxes, and talked to some locals about the family name, but came up empty.


Hartwell is adjacent to The Salcey Forest, a medieval hunting ground.


Interestingly, the address of Reuben Cox on one census in the late 1800s, was "Rose and Crown." We found "Rose and Crown" - the local pub established in the mid-17th century. Not sure what that means, but we got a good chuckle out of it, and enjoyed a pint with the local pubmaster.


The pub had some wonderful period photographs from the late 1800s.


The only comment about Hartwell that I have ever picked up in oral histories is that Reuben and Maria Cox lived, "in a thatched hut in Hartwell." This photograph from the pub might indicate what that life was like.