Charles Edward Hancox

Charles Edward Hancox was born on 15 February 1872 at 64 Woodville Terrace, Toxteth Park, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, and christened on 10 March 1872 at Holy Trinity Church, Walton Breck, Lancashire. His parents were Harry Hancox and Maria Mary Merrett and he had three siblings: Harry Merrett Hancox, Frank Heeley Hancox and Richard James Hancox.

On 3 April 1881 the family were living at 30 Edge Lane, Liverpool and by 1891 he was working as a Merchants Clerk in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire By 1901 he was a manager for a Cotton Merchant, still living at home with his mother Maria and younger brothers.

He married Alice Margaret Renner on 7 June 1905 at St Mary's, Liscard, Cheshire His brother Richard James Hancox was his best man. He and Alice had five children: Charles Stanley Hancox, Winifred Margaret Hancox, Norman Merrett Hancox, Barbara May Hancox and Philip Renner Hancox. They lived at 54 Manor Road, Liscard, Cheshire, after their marriage and later at 13 Emmerdale Road, New Brighton, Cheshire.

He subsequently became a cotton broker with extensive travel to the United States. On 24 July 1916 he is recorded on the passenger list of the ship "St Paul" arriving in New York with next of kin given as Mrs. A.M. Hancox On 15 March 1937 he is listed on the passenger list arriving in Southampton from Madeira, Portugal on the Vandyck (Lamport and Holt Line), and is still a cotton merchant. From the following it is evident that he had business interests in the USA where he was in partnership in a large importing cotton business in the south at least until 1920 (as seen in the following notice from the London Gazette, 31 August 1920:

With friends he started the South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club in 1924.

By 1938 his address was given as Witley Court, 54–64 Coram Street, Holborn, London. The family also spent their summer holidays in North Wales, where they had a house at Abersoch.

He died in 1951 in the Wirral, Cheshire.