John Cox Jr. Descendants Family Tree
Our Roots. Our Stories. Our Family.
Welcome to a living family-history project preserving the people, places, photographs, records and memories connected to John Cox Jr.—and the many branches that continue his story around the world.
Turks & Caicos roots
The Bahamas
Branches worldwide
Welcome to the family record
You are entering a story still being written
The John Cox Jr. Descendants Family Tree is more than a collection of names. It is a privately managed, non-commercial family-history project created to remember the people behind the records, reconnect related branches and leave future generations a trustworthy account of where they come from.
Whether you arrived with a lifetime of family knowledge or only a single name, this page will help you find the right place to begin. Explore at your own pace, follow the branches that interest you and share what you know whenever you are ready.
Start where you feel most curious
Choose your path into the family story
Each route opens a different part of the same connected family record.
Meet the Founding Elders
Begin with John Cox Jr.—known as Johnny—and the earliest generations presently known to establish the Cox descendant line.
Meet the founding familyExplore the Full Family Tree
Search people, follow relationships and move between generations in the separate family-tree database.
Open the family treeDiscover Lost & Found Records
Remember other elders whose names, photographs or stories have faded and deserve a careful path back into family memory.
Enter Lost & FoundShare What You Know
Send a correction, identify a photograph, contribute a document or explain how your branch connects.
Contact the projectA personal invitation
Why this family record matters
This short film is an invitation to take part. It explains why one remembered detail can matter, how every branch strengthens the wider record and how ordinary family knowledge can preserve what formal documents leave behind.
Past · Present · Future
One family story moving through time
The purpose has grown clearer: remember honestly, connect thoughtfully and preserve responsibly.
Honour the lives that shaped us
Recover names, places, photographs and stories so the courage, work, faith, failures and achievements of earlier generations are not reduced to dates on a chart.
RootsBring the branches into one record
Help relatives recognise how they are connected, compare family knowledge and strengthen a shared archive without erasing the identity of any branch.
BelongingLeave a trustworthy inheritance
Create a record future generations can explore, question and extend—one that protects living people while keeping family memory alive.
LegacyWhere this descendant tree begins
Meet the family at the roots
The known descendant tree begins with John Cox Jr., affectionately known as Johnny, and with the women whose lives and children stand at the heart of its earliest branches: Theresa “Tessa” Hamilton, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Gardner and Clara Williams.
Their records introduce the earliest generations presently understood to establish the Cox line. Research remains open to stronger evidence, respectful correction and the knowledge carried by their descendants.
Explore the Founding Elders
John Cox Jr.
“Johnny”
Theresa “Tessa” Hamilton
Johnny’s first wife
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Gardner
Johnny’s second wife
Clara Williams
Johnny’s partner
The living family database
Follow a name. Discover a branch. See where it leads.
The separate family-tree database is where names, relationships, photographs, places, sources and connected generations come together. Use it when you are ready to move beyond the introduction and explore the wider descendant record.
Privacy: public visitors may see limited information about living relatives. Some records require appropriate access.
Two archives · one purpose
Different records deserve different paths
Both collections preserve family memory, but they do not describe the same group of people.
The earliest established generations
Founding Elders Records
Profiles for the people presently understood to establish the earliest known Cox descendant line—beginning with Johnny and the family at its roots.
Explore Founding EldersStories returning to family memory
Lost & Found Records
A respectful place for other elders and relatives whose names, photographs or stories have faded, been misplaced or are still waiting to be identified.
Explore Lost & Found
A symbol of shared identity
The emblem carried by this family project
The commissioned John Cox family emblem brings together Caribbean homeland, kinship, perseverance and continuing legacy. It is a modern symbol created for this descendant family—not proof that every person with the Cox surname descends from a historic heraldic line.
The full Coat of Arms page explains the modern emblem, the historic surname-associated artwork that inspired it and the meaning assigned to each symbol and colour.
Your knowledge may complete a connection
A small contribution can unlock an entire branch
You do not need to be a genealogist or take on a formal role. Begin with what you know, explain the source where possible and identify anything uncertain.
Your place in the story is waiting
Find your branch. Remember a life. Continue the legacy.
Begin with the family tree, explore the stories already preserved or contact the project with the clue only your branch may know.