Joseph Oxbrow was born on 3 November 1777, the son of John Oxbrow and Sarah Sittison, in Braintree and died on 22 June 1854 in Bocking. He married Jane Seach on 17 October 1799. She was born in Bocking.

From Bocking parish records it is recorded that Joseph and Jane had eleven children

Johanna Oxbrow married a widower, John Spooner, who was a blacksmith, on 16 February 1839

Rhoda Oxbrow also married a widower, John Watson, a weaver, on 20 February 1838. Rhoda was 7 when she was christened with her sister Alice.

Mary Oxbrow must have died as there is another sister called Mary (Mary Ann). Mary Ann Oxbrow married William Rayner on 27 June 1832 in Bocking.

Alice Oxbrow married George Bragg on 15 June 1843 in Bocking. At the time of the 1881 census she was lliving in Bradford St Brownes Yard, Bocking, a widow on parochial relief. When she was married she gave her occupation as dressmaker and her husband was a groom.

John Oxbrow married Emma who was born in 1820 in Margaretting, Essex and died 11 August 1894 in Writtle All Saints, Essex. John died on 21 June 1890, also in Writtle. In 1881 he was an Inn Keeper at the Cock & Bell inn in Writtle. They had two daughters Sarah Ann and Alice. Alice committed suicide a year before her cousin Walter after an unhappy love affair (1894).

William Oxbrow is my ancestor

Jane probably died in Bocking in 1834.

Emily married Joseph Moore on 26 December 1843