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Title: Joe COLEBOURNE
Post by: MT66 on Friday 05 September 08 16:55 BST (UK)

I am looking for information on my paternal Great grandfather Joe Colebourne.

Joe was born in Tyldesley in Lancs in 1893, he was a football player who signed for Exeter in 1920. He never married my Great grandmother (Florence Taylor) but they had a child who was born in 1917 (my grandfather Robert Taylor)

Joe also played for Swindon Town for two seasons before ending his proffessional career back at Exeter in 1924/25.

I believe he married a person called Baker (in exeter Mar 1921 5b 198) and after he finished playing he ran a pub in Exeter.

Any info much appreciated

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: Tati on Friday 05 September 08 17:15 BST (UK)

Welcome to RootsChat MT66  :)

I can see the family in the 1901 census - would you like the details?

 :)

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: MT66 on Friday 05 September 08 17:17 BST (UK)

yes please

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: Tati on Friday 05 September 08 17:23 BST (UK)

Here we go  8)

1901
RG13/3598 24 39
Tyldesley With Shakerley, Lancashire
21 Alexander Street
4 rooms occupied
John Colebourne, head, 44, labourer at Colliery, b. Lancs Hindley
Martha, wife, 39, b. Leigh
Melinda, dau, 18, Mill Hand, b. do.
Edmund, son, 15, Pony Driver C Mine, b. Wigan
Sarah Ann, dau, 13, b. Yorks Westbro Date?
Lizzie, dau, 10, scholar, b. Leigh
Joseph, son, 8, scholar, b. Tyldesley
James, son, 6, scholar, b. do.
Jno Hy, son, 3, b. do.

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: MT66 on Friday 05 September 08 17:25 BST (UK)

thank you this is much appreciated

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: Tati on Friday 05 September 08 17:27 BST (UK)

10 years earlier ...

1891
RG12/3085 60 33
Bedford, Lancashire
4 Hey Place
2 rooms occupied
John Coleburn, head, 31, Coal Miner, b. Lancashire Hindley
Martha, wife, 29, b. Leigh
Melinda, dau, 8, scholar, b. do.
Edmund, son, 5, scholar, b. do.
Sarah A, dau, 3, b. do.
Lizzie, dau, 2 mo, b. do.

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: Tati on Friday 05 September 08 17:50 BST (UK)

I'm having trouble identifying John earlier for now (can only see a John Cockburn).

This is the only marriage I see showing on Lancashire BMD

1890
John COLEBURN - Martha WARD, Wigan, Register Office or Registrar Attended

(there is a Martha Ward born ca. 1861 on earlier censuses, but I can't see a birth registration for Melinda as either Ward or Coleburn  :P)

Edit: But Edmund seems to have been registered as Colburn in 1885 so maybe not the right marriage after all  :(

Title: Re: Joe Colebourne
Post by: Tati on Friday 05 September 08 18:26 BST (UK)

Here's a candidate! IGI extracted record, found on www.familysearch.org

John Coleburn 
Birth  21 February 1860, Christening 11 March 1860
Hindley, Lancashire
Mother Mary Coleburn   

Title: Re: Joe COLEBOURNE
Post by: MT66 on Saturday 06 September 08 16:52 BST (UK)

Thanks for your help the name Colebourne does seem to lose e's and find them again with alarming regularity.

Again Thanks