Alice Cooper (George KEAR) + WILLIAMS + COALE (Parish Records)

by MPGriffiths , Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 14:29 (3713 days ago) @ Orville

All census information is useful for forum members. Who were the witnesses at their wedding?

I think the 1911 census holds the most Clues and also Alice 'knocked a few years' off her age, as she was a bit older than her husband.

and this must be the answer…..

1861 Census, East Dean - Blakeney Hill

Ann COOPER - Head - Widow - 40 - born Bully ? Gloucester
William - Son - 15 Coal Miner
Richard - 12
Alice - 10
John - Grandson - 3
George KEAR - Lodger, unmarried - 34 - labourer

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And the 1851 census holds more information - East Dean
22 New Road

COOPER

William - 40 Coal Miner, born Glos West Dean (so William COOPER c 1811)
Ann - 30 - born Bulley
Charlotte - 12 (mother's maiden name WILLIAMS - on GlosBDM)
Eliza - 6
William - 5
Richard - 2 *****
Charles COLE - Step-son - 15 - born East Dean

next door, but one household

KEAR

Mary - Widower - 53, born Glos Awre
George - son - unmarried 24 - born East Dean
Thomas - 20
Elizabeth - 15
Emma BROWN - Visitors, 25 - unmarried

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1841 Census, Dean Forest
William COOPER - 30
Ann COOPER - 25
Chas COOPER - 6 named a COLE 1851 census - he was christened it Blakeney in 1835, parents Ann & Robert COLE
Charlotte COOPER - 1

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Fod Records: Marriage at Awre - 31 December 1833

Robert COLE - married Ann WILLIAMS - no parents information given

witnesses: William WILLIAMS and Charles FENNELL

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Robert COLE was buried at Awre - 29 April 1835 - age 26
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Fod Records:

Baptism at Blakeney - 11 May 1851

Alice COOPER
parents: William (labourer) and Ann -
residence: Pitching Green

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Fod Records: Burial at Awre
4 February 1855

William Cooper, age 45, Forest of Dean (c1810)
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1911 census

55 Doncaster & Sensley? Road

OLIVER

James - 58 - married -
Alice - 57 - born Blakeney
Rosa OLIVER - 21 -
George KEAR - step-father - 88 Widower - born Blakeney, Gloucestershire

1881 Census, Gringley, Nottinghamshire

James Taylor OLIVER - 28
Alice OLIVER - 26 - born Gloucester Forest of Dean (consistant with c1855 on all census returns)
James Wm - 3 - born Sheffield
Wilfred - 1 - born Rotherham

On the 1901 census, Yorkshire Alice says she was born in Blakeney. and they have a lodger, George KEAR, unmarried age 67 also from Blakeney, Glos

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Try using this website for any clues…

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

There is an Alice COOPER 1851 - mother's maiden name WILLIAMS and a marriage of a William COOPER to Ann WILLIAMS - Glos. St Nicholas 1838

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??? On Ancestry - England Select Marriages we have

William Cooper aged 27 (c1811) - married Ann COALE - 22 October 1838 at Saint Nicholas, Gloucester….. On the 1851 census, William COOPER and Ann have a step-son Charles COLE age 15 - born East Dean

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William COOPER was born c1810/1811 born West Dean