This woman on Facebook is trying to find her long-lost grandfather.
https://www.facebook.com/melanie.jjones.5/posts/102072592092...PLEASE SHARE THIS GUYS, I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP!
PLEASE HELP US FIND EDDIE/EDDY COX!
AMERICAN FRIENDS, MY FATHER NEEDS YOUR HELP
My name is Mel and I'm from Wales, on behalf of my father Alan Jones I am writing this message to ask for your help. A long time ago he found out his whole life his family weren't who he thought they were, and his father was someone he'd never met. I will tell you the story of my grandmother, the woman I grew up calling 'aunty'.
In 1945, Margaret Doreen Jones, an 18/19 year old woman, lived in a place called Waunwen, Swansea, South Wales, the year World War 2 ended. In the month of January or February Doreen was out in Swansea where the American Navy settled for a while, the soldiers roaming the streets and having a good time, and that's where she met Eddie/Eddy Cox, an American Navy soldier. She liked him, he liked her, but it was never meant to be since he had to leave for America, and she never got to say her goodbyes because it happened so fast. What happened next came as a surprise for her and her parents, she was pregnant. At those times in the 1940s women who got pregnant at a young age or before marriage sometimes were ashamed or people looked down at them, Doreen was afraid. She couldn't believe that she had gotten pregnant with the American soldier who had left not long ago.
When my father, Alan was born on October 6th 1945 Doreen made a decision. Doreen's parents would raise my dad Alan as their own, and Doreen would pretend to be his big sister. For 56 or so years that's what my father believed. That's what we all believed.
Around 10 years ago when I was 14 years old Doreen died of cancer. But a few days before she passed my father sat beside her bed at the hospital and Doreen finally broke. 'I'm your mother'. She told my father about Eddie/Eddy Cox the American soldier who came to Swansea, of how her parents were in fact my father's grandparents, how she was actually not his sister but his mother. My father was in shock, he couldn't believe all this time he'd thought he was growing up with his sister when it was really his mother. It came as a shock for me and my brother and sister also, Doreen was not our aunty, but our grandmother. All these years she had been looking at us knowing we were her grandchildren, and she wouldn't say a word because of her shame and guilt. But no matter what, my father told her that he loved her, he forgave her, we all did. For years now my father has been searching for his father, even ringing the American Navy for their help but they could not give him answers because of their strict rules. He gave up, and I could see the sadness in him.
That's the story of my grandmother Doreen and her American Soldier, and all I ask is for your help. I won't give up. Please share this story with everyone you know, especially around America. My father may have a family that he never got to know, and all I want is for him to live the rest of his life knowing who his father was, and if he does have a family out there I want him to know them too. Please, contact this email down below if you know anything about the American Soldier Eddie/Eddy Cox, if he was your grandfather, father, cousin, anything. I have provided pictures of my father at 7 years and 20 years old, and one of how he looks now, and a picture of my grandmother Doreen at 19-20 years old. Thank you! Diolch yn fawr.
findeddcox@hotmail.com