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
