N is for Nottingham

 I have written elsewhere in this blog about convict brothers John (Lord Sidmouth, 1819) and Robert (Adamant, 1821) and shown the contrast in their behaviour and standing in the colony of New South Wales.

This tree, MX68 is the smallest in the Moxon Society.  John and Robert were shown as being the sons of John Mugson and his wife Phoebe Teel from Kings Lynn and all the children were baptised in Nottingham, including a sister Elizabeth who died as an infant.  Elsewhere John Mugson is recorded as Moxon.  No parents for John Mugson or Moxon can be found at this time.  

However, in the well established tree MX01, the Moxons of Cawthorne there is a Mugson or Moxon family born in Derby.  In 1702 a John  Mugson of Derby married Hannah Houghton in St Mary’s Nottingham.  There is a missing generation which needs to be discovered but I would be very surprised if this were not the same family.  Derby and Nottingham are only 14 miles apart.