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Family History Beginners Board / looking for William Henry Plant
« on: Friday 20 December 13 18:29 GMT (UK)  »
He was b.1868 married Sarah Jane Hardman b.1871.  Had 5 children Ernest, Fred, Beatrice, George and Herbert.  First two born in Darlington rest in Rochdale from 1892 to 1908.

I believe his father is Joseph Plant b- 1800 W. Bromwich who married Eliza Ruskoe b. 1802 wellington spa

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Family History Beginners Board / looking for relatives to William Ashmore
« on: Friday 20 December 13 18:18 GMT (UK)  »
he was b.1872  d. 1958 in Rochdale, married Mary Heaton 1904 in Rochdale, she died in 1922 do not know year of birth.

Think had a sister called Elva Ashmore b. 1906/07 d. 1931

Had a daughter Olive Ashmore b.1908 d.1973 married in 1929 to a George Plant b.1905 d. 1958 all in Rochdale

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: cox family lenard & alice with children
« on: Tuesday 03 December 13 15:43 GMT (UK)  »
thank you it is very kind of you I am still actively following my father's side and getting through the muddle on ancestry web site and also myheritage web site to gain info by that means as well which is certainly helping.

Again thank you for your kindness

Doreen

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: cox family lenard & alice with children
« on: Saturday 30 November 13 16:46 GMT (UK)  »
beryl married into the yarker family and had three daughters

It seems my grandparents were not born in Jersey but why they had a boarding house and I presume children born in Jersey §i have yet to find out.

I looked on the web site  you found Bryan onand found a Graeme and Beryl Cox listed but could not access further to establish whether they are my father and aunt.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: cox family lenard & alice with children
« on: Friday 29 November 13 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Beryl did die in Rochdale but the year I am not certain. In 1989 I would have been 29 years old and think that this may not be her as my memory of her death is very vague so I must have been very young. I am at the moment contacting my brother to see what data he has to give.  Beryl was married to a Jack who died before her  and had Gail and another girl who is the eldest whose name I can not recall at the moment nor their surname.
My dad was not the first born if I remember correctly it was Brian who died a few years ago so did Roland who died the same year as my dad 2001 if i remember Septembe /October the funeral was in Hastings.  I live in Italy since 2002 so my contact with my family is via e-mail.

When my mother died in 2012 I found a very old book that listed family members on my mother's side this goes back to very old times . I asked my sister not to destroy it as the details were very detailed and as my mother was born in Rochdale and she herself tried to find details of her past (by obtaining certificates to establish her history which were together with this book) due to her past not being clear i.e. she never knew her father but she was legitimate, I hope in the future to sort this out, but a future plan.

What is your interest in generology and Jersey in particular?  I started doing this research because eventually last month we acquired wi-fi and it has opened the door to a wider world so I thought it could not be hard to find my father's details on such a small island but in fact it was not easy.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: cox family lenard & alice with children
« on: Friday 29 November 13 17:38 GMT (UK)  »
Leonard & Alice Cox ( maybe spelt wrong may have more names) were my grandparents who ran a boarding house in St helier, (my grandfather was a treasurer for a local club I think in Jersey if not in Rochdale (somewhere I have his membership card buried in paperwork) left because of the German invasion and then lived in Rochdale and both died there.  My father Graeme Cox was one of their children born 20.11.1922 the rest were Brian. Roland, Audrey, Beryl, Shiela, as far as i can remember and all were born in Jersey.  My father died in 2001. Alice died in Rochdale and looking for details I have found an Alice who died in 1941 aged 69.  My father talked about his mother dying whilst he was in the army and not being allowed to go to her funeral so this maybe my grandmother.  My grandfather died when I was young. I remember my parents saying he never saw my brother because he died before he was born in 1963-64. I have found a record of a Leonard E W Cox who died in Rochdale in June 1964 aged 82 and this could be him and therefore my brother was given his name - Alan Leonard Cox.

I am sorry I do not have much information.  I am curious to know from where my grandparents originated

As to returning after the war no one from this family returned to live there.  I remember going to Jersey around 1974 (I was born in 1960) with my family to close my dad's bank account and to visit people who still lived in Jersey and knew him and his family but I do not know these people myself.

With my father I met a man who wrote a book about the people who left the Islands and the Cox family were written about but I do not remember his name.

I hope I have given you more info to go on.

Thank you

Doreen Sutton

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / cox family lenard & alice with children
« on: Sunday 24 November 13 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
looking for family details on cox family who left Jersey just before the German Invasion. 

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