I am attempting to search for my mother in law's family records. On her birth certificate it says mother, Violet Cox, father, Henry Victor Short. In 1935 (the year she was born, Hastings Municipal Hospital) they were living at 19 St Paul's Road, St Leonard's On Sea and then lived in Brighton (near the railway station). She remembers her father was a soldier during WW2.
My mother in law was evacuated to Yorkshire in 1941 with her 2 brothers, 1 of whom she lost trace of, although she thinks he might have moved to Scotland. She remembers staying at a children's home on Belvedere Road, Bridlington before being sent to Steeton in Yorkshire. Her family never claimed her back after the war so I don't know if her mother was a civilian casualty in Brighton or not. Her father died in the late 1960s as her brother, Ernest George, was able to find him and he attended the funeral. Unfortunately he died in January this year and I never got the chance to ask him any questions about him obtaining a copy of my mother in law's birth certificate in 2001.
My mother in law remembers other brothers and 1 sister: Reginald and Percy (twins), David (b about 1933), and Mary (became a nurse, b about 1939). I think all their surnames might have been Cox, and not Short, as Henry and Violet do not appear to have ever been married.
I have searched Free BMD and Ancestry with no luck whatsoever and cannot pin down birth or death records for any members of the family.
Any advice or help on this family would be greatly appreciated
