Surname origin
A personal name derived from Old English Cocc or Cocca found in place-names.
A common name for a boy, 'one who strutted like a cock'; used for scullions and apprentices.
'Atte cock', one who dwelled by the hill.
A Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney. OUP revised third edition 1997. 019860092-5.

Stories!
'Two sisters married two brothers' [IM Cox 1979]
Jane KNIGHT (1851 - 1935) was thought to be one of the sisters with the ONGLEY brothers. Unfortunately Jane did not have a sister and her brother died in 1855 age 17.
However Jane did marry Alfred COX, and his brother Thomas COX (1838 - 1884) did marry Jane's Aunt, Mary KNIGHT (1838 - 1912)

Thomas COX was baptised at Buxted on the 4th January 1807, the son of Thomas and Emma Cox.
Thomas Cox married Elizabeth HE(L)MSLEY on the 27th October 1835 at Buxted.
They had children:-
• Charles (1835 - 1900) = Mary Ann TEAGUE (1836 - 1905)
  • Charles (1857 - 1899) = Esther PIERCE (c.1860 - )
    • Elizabeth Annie (1888 - )
    • Charles Alfred (1889 - 1956) = Esther Julia PROWSE(c. 1895 - )
  • Naomi (1858 - 1862)
  • Emily (1861 - 1948) = Henry HAMMOND (c.1860 - ?)
  • Mary (1863 - ) = George MORGAN (c.1858 - ?)
  • Elizabeth (1865 - 1940) = William Joseph MOORE (c.1874 - ?)
  • Alice (c.1867 - 1898)= David Picknell TURNER (1871 - ?) = (2) Lilian Gertrude BOXELL
  • Eliza (1868 - 1944) = Thomas DOWLEN (1865 - 1948)
  • Alfred (1870)
  • Louisa (1871 - ?) = William BARNES (1869 - ?)
  • Robert (1873 - 1938) = Emily DOWLEN (1872 - 1948)
    • Nellie (1898 - liv. 1939)
    • Edith May (1899 - ?)
  • Albert (c.1874 - liv.1881)
  • Annie (c.1875 - ) = William PULLINGER (c.1875 - ?)
  • Ellen (1876 - liv. 1891)
  • Kate (1881 - 1965) = George GREGORY (1876 - 1949)
• Thomas (1838 - 1884) = Mary KNIGHT (1838 - 1912)
  • Mary Ellen 'Nelly' (1870 - ?)
  • Arthur Richard (1874 - ?)
• Richard (1841 - 1890)
• Elizabeth (1843 - 1901) = Thomas TURK (1842 - 1921)
  • Albert Thomas TURK (1863)
  • Alfred Edward TURK (1864 - 1893) = Clara OVERDEN (c.1862-?)
  • Emma Elizabeth TURK (1867 - ?) = Harry EDWARDS(c.1867-?)
  • Harriott TURK (1869 -liv 1891)
  • Herbert TURK (1871 -?) = Kate Maria STILL(c.1879-?)
  • George William TURK (1874 - 1965) = Sarah Elizabeth PAYNE(c.1875-liv 1939)
  • Alice Eliza TURK (1876 - liv 1911) = George BURGESS (c.1870-?)
  • Henry Tom TURK (1877 - 1957) = Harriett LEE (liv 1939)
• George (1846 - 1913) = Eliza FEIST (1846 - 1909)
  • George Thomas (1869)
  • John (1870-1871)
  • Elizabeth Ann (1872)
  • Rhoda Eliza (1874-1953) = (1) Robert HARGREAVES(1874-1916) = (2) Arthur Dauly William SAWYER (c.1868-?)
    • (1) Elsie Rhoda HARGREAVES (1899-1970) = Herbert Alfred CUTHBERT (1886-?)
    • (1) James Robert HARGREAVES (190-1884) = Kathleen F A MACKETT
    • (1) Millicent HARGREAVES (1906- liv 1911)
  • James Alfred (1877 - 1943) = Alice KING (1878 - 1957)
    • Dorothy Alice (1900 - 1917)
    • Constance Mary (1904 - ?) = James F BANNISTER (1899-?)
    • Florence Annie (1906 - ?) = Herbert W LANGLEY (1899-?)
    • Elsie Rhoda (1908 - 1993)
    • James George (1909 - 1987) = Flora M WIELD
    • Edward (1910-1975) = Lilian BATES (1912-1997)
    • 'male Cox' (1916)
  • William Henry (1880 - 1881)
  • Mary (1881-1954) = (1) John William MacDONALD (c.1881-1906) (2) Harry Lewis BOSLEY(1884 - 1932)
  • Ernest (1884-1887)
  • Harry (1888)
• Harriett (1849-1925) = Benjamin MILLER (1848-1935)
  • Benjamin MILLER (1872-1881)
  • Albert Thomas MILLER (1874-1954) = Elizabeth Rose BARKER (1883-?)
    • Albert Edgar MILLER (1905-?)
    • Gladys Mary MILLER (1905-?)
  • Albert MILLER (c.1875 - liv 1891)
  • Elizabeth Rose MILLER (1877-?) = Edwin GENNER(1882-?)
  • William Richard MILLER (1879-?) = Esther JEFFREY (1884-?)
    • Margery MILLER (1911 -?)
  • Edward Alfred MILLER(c.1881-?) = Agnes MILES
  • Alice Jane MILLER(1883-1970) = George Thomas BOOTH (1880-?)
  • Joseph Charles MILLER (1886-1917) = Clara WILKS (1887-?)
    • Margaret Alice MILLER (1914 - ?)
    • Clara Mabel MILLER (1916 - ?) = Donald Frederick PROBETTS
  • Edgar Stanley MILLER (1888-1926) = Mabel Maud DICKSON
    • Charles S MILLER (1919 -?)
    • Eva M Miller (1922 -?)
• Alfred (1852 - 1914) = Jane KNIGHT (1851 - 1935)
  • Alfred John (1885 - 1954) = Annie Elizabeth WEST(1882 - 1961)
    • Alfred John William = Irene FITT