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Just sent Nicola a message. Hopefully, she will be in touch soon!

I am indeed in Canada, stayed up late reading and pursuing all the delicious clues people contributed on this thread. Bumped up against the paywall on various sites, so will wait til I can visit the local library - I understand they have access to ancestry databases.

Thank you!

Joanne

Just had a thought !! - I think Joanne is in Canada so will have been asleep when you posted for her to send a pm to Nicola Det. so Nicola probably hasn't received one yet.

I have sent one to her ('coz I can't wait for her to see this!!! ;-) :-D)

Dea x

This is SSoooo exciting - I wish Nicola would get back on here soon !!

Dea x

Great result!

That's fantastic!
Although Nicola is still an active member of genes, send her a message in case she misses your post.
Just click on her name to open up private message box.
If Nichola sees your post before you do that, she can do the same.

Hi Nicola,

I am Leo and Marguerite's granddaughter - and the daughter of John Cox. We used to live at 574 Kildonan Rd, but my parents sold the house in the late 1980s.

I've been tracking down different parts of my ancestry, but I have not been able to find as much about my grandfather until I read this thread - you guys are fantastic!

Leo - who I always knew as Leo Delano Cox - married Marguerite (she of the broken hip), who he met in Belgium when the Canadian forces liberated Chievres. She followed him to Canada in 1925 and they married in Toronto in 1927. I just found the marriage certificate today. Leo was a talented artist as well as a poet. He worked in watercolours and studied with A. Y. Jackson.

How exciting to have found out so much about him! I knew he'd had a very difficult childhood, but I didn't know the whole story. And I am so intrigued that he was in love before he left for the front!

Joanne
PS: Sorry - this did not seem to load, so I am hitting submit again at the risk of double posting.

Thanks Yvonne - would be an expensive phone call! Will ponder about that.
;-)

Try phoning the editor. I did this many years ago with a paper in the UK ... I didn't get a reply when I wrote but after speaking with the editor by phone, I got the info I wanted.

After contacting the daily newspapers in Montreal and Vancouver [see above], I waited and waited and waited ...............
No response, so I guess the story didn't have enough 'bite' for them.
I may try and approach them again, otherwise this little saga will have ended with me unable to contact our chap's descendants to offer them a copy of their ancestor's love poems to my grandmother!!
What a tale.
:-)

Thank you MarieCeleste for giving me the heads up that the site takes ages to load. I clicked on it, went and ate supper, watched some tv and came back an hour later to see it waiting for me! So when I clicked on your previous link to it and nothing happened, I must have thought there was a gremlin.

What an interesting Service Record it is to read. And as the years of the war progress, it seems that our chap began to add the 'D' as his middle initial = DELAMOGUE. On his front page, he is just plain LEO COX.

The GSW to his knee on 8.11.18 clinches the poignant words of my grandmother's note with his poems to her: "He was killed just before the Armistice." This wounding must indeed have been interpreted that he had been killed - how very sad. But he was one of the lucky ones .............

I have approached the daily newspapers in Montreal and Vancouver [where LDC and later his son JC lived] to see if I can tempt them with this lovely story and maybe it will attract a reader's attention and we will find out more. I'll let you know here, of course.

BIG thankx.
:-D

Nicola, I'd already posted the correct link for the service records before the partial link that Kay??? posted (didn't you look at it then? :-) )

This is it:

http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B2085-S045

Allow plenty of time for it to load.

Kay????: thank you for that link to
www.bac-lac.gc.ca › ... › Soldiers of the First World War: 1914-1918

I've tried various combinations of his name, initial and surname but cannot get a result - how did you do it, please?

I am officially an IT dinosaur.

:-)

Just after all the above, I had a hip replacement operation which rather set me back. But all's well, and I'm facing forward again!

But I've lost my thread [pun not intended] a bit on this one and cannot for the life of me remember why I would have written to Mr. L. Cox at 574 Kildonan Road, West Vancouver, Br. Col. V7S 1X5. This would have been the son of the original Leo Delamogue Cox [see top of the thread] and born in c.1930. I have not got a clue how/where I would have got the address from if it wasn't from you clever lot on here. Unfortunately, the letter was returned unopened 'Person not known at this address'. I had enclosed some copies of the poems written by his father in the envelope with my letter.

Think my anaesthetic was a strong version ............... Did one of you post that address to me?
:-D

To all of you have helped on this thread and discovered such a touching background to my story, I send you my renewed thanks.
I have compiled a word document of all the relevant pieces of research and put it in with the poems in my grandmother's Family Tree entry for future generations.
So your efforts will be recorded for posterity, as well they should be.
1,000 thanks again.
:-D

Kay???? - is that something extra to the full service records previously posted?

www.bac-lac.gc.ca › ... › Soldiers of the First World War: 1914-1918

the link above shows his entry papers...he appears to be the second on list from a L Cox search,,,,,,also the second paper gives his height etc.

(sorry MC, I was looking at names on photo underneath by mistake!, yes, that would be stretching things a bit too far, expecting you to suss him out, lol)

Well done on things.

Chris :)

I never cease to be amazed at the depth of knowledge all of you have! How you got from an illegitimate birth in the Workhouse to a Home Boy to emigration to Canada to the family name who cared for him out there to the records of the Fegan Homes, etc., etc., I shall never know.

But aren't I lucky that you are all there and prepared to do all of this for someone you don't even know.

I wonder whether, if any descendants are ever found, they would like my original documents of their ancestor's poems ............. ??

And I wonder when and why my chap added his very distinctive middle name ... ??

Is there YET MORE to be found!!
:-D

His name IS in the 1912 list on that link. Unfortunately the list appears to be alphabetical so unless they arranged the boys in the photo alphabetically I can't suss out which is him!

(if him below, from 1912 Canada clue!)

Chris :)

http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/fegans.html

(photo, somewhere in group!)


http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=81167&

(1912 arrival)


COX L 1898 — 1912 Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Saint John NB, Canada

(outgoing. FMP)

edits

(names on photo, MC, can you spot, I need to get moving from 'chair' here, lol, train to catch shortly!)