I have just found a newspaper clipping from 'The Isle of Man Weekly Times' 21/10/1939.

It is an Obituary for my Great Grandfather Charles Fox, who I am researching in this thread.

He died aged 68 on 18/10/1939, leaving two daughters (Mabel and Eileen) and a Wife, Formerly Miss Rowe (My father told me that his family had married into an old Manx family - does anyone know if the Rowes are such a fanily?).

He was made a J.P. in 1927 and was amongst other things :

Chairman of the Palace and Derby Castle Company
Connected with Douglas entertainments for 46 years
A director of the Sefton Hotel Company
Vice-President of the June Effort Season Extension Committee
Chairman of the Carnival Committee
Member of the Motor Car races Committee
member of the Douglas Rotary Club
Member of the Tynwald Lodge of Freemasons and P.P.G.W??? of that order
Chairman of the Manx National Sporting Club
etc......

He came to the Island in 1889 with his father (I think also Charles Fox), who became Vice-Chairman of the Falcon Cliff company.

Given that he was 68 in '39, he must have been born around 1871. Therefore he would indeed have been 20 in 1891. This coincides nicely with the previous message in this thread posted by Brian Lawson.

Anything anyone can tell me about this Fox family, would be very gratefully received. I am especially interested in trying to trace his father's line back to Cornwall, whence family tradition says they came. I believe that they descend from a large Quaker family of Foxes in and around Falmouth, so any information about his father or records that the Rowe family may have or public records about either father or son would be most helpful.

Thanks again for all the help I have received from this Bulletin Board,

Julian Gosnell