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Charles Thomas Cockson was born May 31, 1838 in Alrewas, Yoxall, Staffordshire, U.K. He worked as a china painter in Cobridge and Liverpool before emigrating to the U.S.A in 1871 with his wife and two oldest children. He was given title to a homestead in Polk County, Nebraska in 1880. While enroute to visit family, hecaught pneumonia and died in London on June 5, 1900 where he lies in St. Pancras cemetery. He and Lucy had one daughter and four sons one of whom (Harold E.) was my grandfather.
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