Cozens Family Tree

A very sickly child, but grew up to be a very attractive young lady. When she spurned one young man's advances, he committed suicide! She met her husband at Winchester Art School. After two short term jobs, she worked for Farnborough Royal Aircraft Establishment until her marriage.

She was busy with child raising for many years. Her husband joined up and left home in August 1941 and a few days later she had to leave her 3 year old daughter (Joy) with her two grandmothers and went into a nursing home to have her son (Ray). Confinement lasted 2 weeks in those days, and she returned home to find her little angel had been playing her grandmothers up no end.

For the next five years she brought the family up single handed, although having a series of people billetted with her during the war. One of these was a teacher, Miss Langford, who stayed at the Ilminster Girls' Grammar School long term. Another family was that of Ralph and Elf Kingsley (refugees because, although non practising, they were classified as Jews by the Germans.) Their first child, a daughter Patricia, was born while they lived at Ilminster.

In 1956 she started teaching art part time at the Ilminster Girls' Grammar School, starting there the same day as her younger daughter (Susan.)