James & Ellen SIMMONDS nee WORGAN - 1911 Census (General)

by george , Friday, November 09, 2012, 18:33 (4399 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Yippee!! All of you. You have solved a lot here. Doris was my grandma. (if you check the 1931 inquests you will find Ben Cooper and therein lies the link and the reason my father and the rest of his family left the forest).

Name: Doris M Simmons & Benjamin Cooper
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1916
Registration district: Neath
Inferred County: Glamorgan
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 1463a

Year: 1931
Month: Jun
Day: 8
Surname: COOPER
Forenames: Benjamin
Residence: Berry Hill
Age_at_death: 38
Officiating_Minister: Wyndham Jones vicar
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P82 IN 1/16
Page_No: 51
Parish_Chapel: Christchurch

Some of the Cooper family in New Zealand wanted to know the family history. It was the Simmons side that was confusing.

I've rushed through the info here and will digest it all later when I am not cooking and entertaining. I just can't tell you how grateful I am.

I wonder if travellers often had the surname 'Smith' and if it was easy to change.

I also know what happened to May. (And her brother George).