Sunday, 24 June 2012

John Cooper b. 1845

In August 1872 (reported in Lancaster Gazette) John was injured in a train crash.
I have typed that up on the Salford blog.


1881 7 Bromleys Blds Pendleton
John Cooper 35 coal miner unemployed b. Pendleton
Margaret A 36 weaver (cotton) unemployed b. Darwin
Easther A 1 b. Pendleton
Thomas 4m b. Pendleton

1891 Bromileys Buildings
John Cooper 46 General labourer b. Pendleton
Margaret 47 b. Over Darwen
Esther A 11 b. Pendleton
Thomas 10 b. Pendleton
James 6 b. Pendleton
Ethel 4 b. Pendleton

1901 19 Aldeston? St.
Margaret Cooper 54 widow
Esther Ann 21 winder cotton
Thomas 19 color maker paper mill
James 16 parceller cotton warehouse
Ethel 14
All born Salford

There are too many Cooper families in Salford to guess from the bmd. So looking for a death John Cooper in Salford district 1891-1901 there are too many John Coopers and none of the ages seem to fit but that doesn't mean he isn't one of them?

1911 18 Penelope Rd Pendleton
Ethel Cooper 24 private means b. Pendleton
George Norman Cooper 5 nephew b. Pendleton
Ethel Grundy 25 visitor nurse (domestic) b. Pendlebury
The house had six rooms

George Norman is the son of James and Lillian, there is a tree on Ancestry linked to him - Lawrence family tree which suggests he emigrated to Australia and had family there.
George died in 1965 age 60 Fremantle, Western Australia.

Ethel Cooper may have married Edward E Lees in 1911 at St. Georges (6/131)

1911 59 Stapleton St. Pendleton
James Cooper 26 retired warehouseman b. Pendleton
Lillian Ann 27 b. Pendleton
Lillian 3 b. Pendleton
James 1m. b. Pendleton
They had been married 6 years and had three children all alive.
The house had 4 rooms.

marriage 12 Nov 1904 St John Pendlebury
James Cooper 20 Warehouseman 62 Claremont Rd. (John deceased labourer)
Lilian Ann Roberts 20 25 Stapleton St. (Thomas, collier)
wit. Daniel Lewis and Esther Ann Cooper.
(details from opc site)

1911 24 Elleray Rd. Pendleton
Robert Wood 30 Carter newspaper Co. b. Lower Broughton
Esther Ann 31 b. Pendelton
Hannah Jane 73 widow b. Pendleton
Thomas Cooper 29 brother in law gentleman b. Pendleton





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