Frank Heeley Hancox

Frank Heeley Hancox was born in 1869 in Liverpool, Lancashire to Harry Hancox and Maria Mary Merrett He had three brothers, Harry_Merrett_Hancox, Charles_Edward_Hancox and Richard_James_Hancox.

In the 1891 Census, Frank was living with his family at 30 Edge Lane and was a Student of medicine. But in 1892, he is recorded as leaving England for South Africa on the Grantully Castle and nothing more shows with regard to his medical studies in England.

He married Ethel Chard Nelson in South Africa and it is probable that he had a photographic studio known as Hancox and Wensch, Rembrandt Studios, 46 du Toits Road, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. There is a record of a photograph that he took of Cecil Rhodes and 9 directors of the De Beers Co. on 2 January 1899, which is held at the National Archives, Kew, London.

He and Ethel had children, the descendents of whom were living in Durban in 2016.

He died aged 39 on 24 February 1909 in Kimberley, South Africa.