BIRTH: 1st born of two twin girls
BIRTH: son of George Wells Allen
Walter Cox was a minor royal he was descended from Edward 3rd of England through his mother Maria Theresa Weld - see the Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal of Britain-The Clarence Volume page 461
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.askart.com/biography.asp?ID=60064
1867 (Broxwood Court, England) - 1930 (Alexandria, Virginia) This biography from the Archives of AskART: "Born in England, Walter Cox trained in Paris and then settled in San Francisco in 1904 and painted many landscapes of which the ones completed before 1906 were lost in the earthquake. By the 1920s, he had moved to New York where he became primarily a portraitist, painting notables of the day such as Warren G. Harding (Twenty-Ninth President of the United States 1921-1923), Chief Justices, and members of the British Nobility. Source: Beacon Hill Fine Art ... "
Courtesy Edan Milton Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940. Painter. Born in Broxwood Court, England on May 4, 1867. After studying in Paris with Laurens, Lefevre, and Benjamin-Constant, Cox came to San Francisco in 1904 and resided at 1717 Jackson Street with a studio at 1612 Van Ness. He lost many paintings in the 1906 disaster and was active in San Francisco until at least 1914. Sketching trips were made to England and Scotland. Cox died in Alexandria, VA in 1930. Primarily a portrait painter, his sitters included President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Taft (later Twenty-Seventh President of the US 1909-1913) . He also produced historical genre and landscapes from his world travels. Exh: Palace Hotel (SF), 1914. CSL; CD; SF Examiner, 5-1-1914, p.11.
BIOGRAPHY: Lavinia Inherited 67 Talgarth Mansions from her Aunt Caroline Carnell
Proved on 31 July 1923
Gross value of estate £3,908 -1-8
Net value of estate £2,874 -12-2
The Will was made 5 July 1921 and amended by codicil 5 October 1922.
The first clause appoints a firm of solicitors in Soho Square as executors, but with the codicil Caroline changed this in the autumn before she died. This suggests that Lavinia might have been caring for her at this stage.
The Will consists of two main gift clauses:
Extracts: Let it be known that Caroline Carnell of 64, Talgarth Mansions, West Kensington in the county of Middlesex Spinster who died there on 6th July 1923 and be it further known that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament with a codicil of the said deceased was proved and registered in the Principle Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice ................ probate to Lavinia Carson Cox ****of 64 Talgarth Mansions aforesaid (wife of Walter Cox) neice of the deceased and sole executrix.
"I bequeath to Mrs Harriett Thornton*** my leasehold house Number 39, Saint Leonard's Terrace for all my estate and interest therein she paying the rent reserved by and observing and performing the covenants on the part of the lessee and conditions therein contained and indemnifying my executor and my estate thereof"
".............funeral expenses...i give devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my estate... to my neice Lavinia Carson Cox for her own absolute use and benefit and as to real estate in fee simple"
Lavinia Carson Cox **** was the daughter of Harriet Carnell and James Halse MiIllet
Mrs Harriett Thornton*** was actually born Harriet Dagg in 1880 in Teddington, the daughter of Henry Dagg and Sarah Carnell who was sister to Caroline CarnellMARRIAGE: The 1910 census of Sanfrancisco states that the couple are childless and that they have been married for 8 years at that time, but the were actually married in 1897 some 12 years before the census
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