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| Margaret Jane COX (1838 - 1917) |
| b. 28 Nov 1838 at Cobarralong, New South Wales, Australia |
| m. 28 Dec 1858 James GORMLY (1836 - 1922) at Albury, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 21 Nov 1917 at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia aged 78 |
| Parents: |
| Joseph COX (1805 - 1871) |
| Mary MALONEY (1813 - 1881) |
| Grandchildren (6): |
| Lucy Vera GORMLY (1893 - 1921), Josephine A GORMLY (1895 - ), Oscar B GORMLY (1895 - ), Norman C GORMLY (1897 - ), Kevin GORMLY (1898 - ), Colin W GORMLY (1905 - ) |
| Events in Margaret Jane COX (1838 - 1917)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 28 Nov 1838 | Margaret Jane COX was born | Cobarralong, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | ||
| 28 Dec 1858 | 20 | Married James GORMLY (aged 22) | Albury, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 05 Jan 1860 | 21 | Birth of son Thomas James Louis Charles GORMLY | Albury, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 1862 | 24 | Birth of son Patrick William GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 13 Dec 1863 | 25 | Death of son Patrick William GORMLY (aged 1) | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 15 Jan 1864 | 25 | Birth of son James David GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 1866 | 28 | Birth of daughter Mary Alice GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 1868 | 30 | Birth of son Richard Ernest Joseph GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1870 | 32 | Birth of son Walter John GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 23 Jun 1871 | 32 | Death of father Joseph COX (aged 66) | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 1872 | 34 | Birth of daughter Laura Agnes GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 11 Sep 1874 | 35 | Birth of daughter Margaret Clara Alice GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 11 Sep 1876 | 37 | Birth of son Laurence Hubert GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 1879 | 41 | Birth of son Patrick William GORMLY | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 02 Jan 1881 | 42 | Death of mother Mary MALONEY (aged 68) | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 21 Nov 1917 | 78 | Margaret Jane COX died | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate,
26 November 1917 Obituary of Mrs Margaret Gormly (nee Cox) 1838-1917 Mrs Margaret Gormly As briefly announced in our last issue the grand old lady, Mrs Margaret Gormly, wife of Mr James Gormly, M.L.C., died suddenly at Wagga on Wednesday night. In company with her sister, Mrs E.A. Fitzgerald, Mrs Gormly walked from her home to the R.C. Church to attend a Mission. She collapsed in the church and was removed to the Presbytery where she expired before Dr Leahy’s arrival. The late Mrs Gormly was probably the longest resident on the Murrumbidgee, she having been born on the bank of that river on 26th November 1838. The late Mr Joseph Cox of Levingston Gully Station (Mrs Gormly’s father) settled on the banks of the Murrumbidgee at Gobarralong, some ten or twelve miles above where the Tumut River joins the main stream, in the early part of 1838, having arrived from Ireland with a family of 15 the previous year. All his children have also reared large families. The spirit of enterprise that caused the Cox family to start for Australia in 1836, when the sea voyage took 8 months, has not been found wanting in them or their descendants in the new land. The year 1838 is memorable in the history of settlement in consequence of the privations and danger the pioneers of that time had to undergo. The most protracted drought known in the history of Australia occurred in the years 1837-38-39 when food went up to famine prices. Mr Joseph Cox (Mrs Gormly’s father) succeeded in growing some wheat which he harvested about the end of ’38. The grain was then worth more than £1 per bushel. It has been asserted by several old hands that this was the first wheat grown on the Murrumbidgee River. In the summer of ’38 Joseph Cox moved from Gobarralong to a new station he had taken up on Brungle Creek and when crossing the Murrumbidgee, above the junction of the Tumut he found the river had ceased to flow, there being long stretches of channel dry. The Murrumbidgee has never since that time been known to cease running. In 1846 Joseph Cox and his family moved to Levingston Gully Station. When Mrs Gormly married she settled in Wagga, where her husband carried on the business of mail contractor. Mrs Gormly had been for a considerable part of her life an earnest worker in the cause of charity and religion in the Wagga district. She had been married 59 years and reared a family of five sons and three daughters, and had a large number of grandchildren. Three of the grandsons are men over 21 years of age. |
| Source References: |
| 71. Type: Book, Abbr: Wagga Pioneers, Title: Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District, Auth: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Publ: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Date: 2004, Locn: http://www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au/ |
| - Reference = 79 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = 79 (Death) |
| - Reference = 79 (Marriage) |
| - Reference = 79 (Birth) |