Photo Gallery - New Additions, March 2010 (Photo Gallery)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:31 (5195 days ago)

Sent to us by Helen Best

Eliza Agnes Rook (nee Prosser) - place of birth stated in census as Usk, Monmouth. Born 1838 or 1839 died 1897 in Sheffield. Moved with her husband and children from Coleford to Sheffield in the late 1870s.

Her daughter, Agnes, born 1869 in Coleford, died 1921 in Sheffield, with her is her first child Agnes May born 1896 in Sheffield and who died in Sheffield in 1954.

The photograph was taken around the end of 1896 or the beginning of 1897.

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Louisa Jane Rook
Born 1878 in Sheffield. Daughter of Thomas and Eliza Rook, she never married and became a head teacher.

She is one of 6 children, only two of whom were born in Sheffield, the older ones were all born in Coleford.

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