Moxon? Moxham? Moxom? Moxsom? Moxen? Moakson?
Welcome to THE MOXON SOCIETY, a one-name family history society dedicated to the name Moxon and its variants!
Its origins date back to 1986 when three Moxons – Professor Richard Moxon of Oxford University, James ‘Jimmy’ Moxon OBE of Ghana and Shropshire and Dick Moxon of Southampton – got together to look at an unpublished History of the Moxon family that was researched and compiled by classical scholars Canon R.S. Moxon and Prebendary T.A. Moxon just after the First World War. These had in turn access to another manuscript, A Simple Record of the Moxon Family written in 1877 by the Rev. Charles St. Denys Moxon, a Norfolk parson.
The Moxons of Yorkshire
Jimmy Moxon took on the task of pulling this information together, along with other information that he had gleaned in his own research, into a book The Moxons of Yorkshire, which was published in 1987.
Around one thousand Moxons worldwide were contacted in a mailshot, and the interest that this engendered resulted in the Moxon Society being formed.
The wealth of research undertaken by members of the Moxon Society for more than thirty years is available to all Moxon Society members. As well as access to more than 80 Moxon Family Trees comprising more than 42,000 individuals, members can browse an archive of Moxon wills and the results of the Society’s DNA program.
In addition to publishing occasional booklets, the Society also produces a full colour Magazine newsletter twice a year and the past issues are all indexed and available to Society members on this website.
Once a year the Society hosts a Gathering in the UK of Moxon family historians and occasional meetings of members also take place in Australia and the USA.
If you are interested in what you see, please do consider joining The Moxon Society; we will offer you a warm welcome!
