Author: Cocks, Sarah
Biography:
COCKS, Sarah, formerly SYMONDS (1776-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 3 Aug. 1776 at Bedford, Bedfordshire, one of at least twelve children of the Rev. Joshua Symonds (1739-88), Baptist minister, and his wife Elizabeth Kingsley (1741-92), who had married in the City of London in 1767. Nothing is known of her education. She remained in Bedford after her parents’ deaths and married Samuel Cocks (1779-1866), a non-conformist Birmingham accountant, on 18 Feb. 1800. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Kingsley Cocks (1801-57). Her only known published work, Original Hymns (1831), also contained 11 hymns written by her mother prior to her marriage in 1767--which has enabled identification. It attracted about 100 subscribers who were mostly local but friends and ministers from Bedford also supported the volume. She signed the work from Camp Hill, Birmingham, where she died on 23 July 1835 after a long illness and was buried at Holy Trinity, Bordesley. Her husband and daughter lived together thereafter at Spring Hill, All Saints, Birmingham, until their deaths. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 16 Dec. 2022; Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 27 July 1835, 24 Mar. 1866) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. S. Cocks