Hi Newf
I think you could be right, I think that I have gotten into such a muddle over the last few days since the 1911 came out, that I am confusing the generations! I also made my original posting in a rush, which didn't help....
I'll start again I think....
I was reasonably happy that the George Henry I found on the 1911 census may well be my gf.
His Birth cert details:
George Henry Cooper born 24.8.04 son of George Cooper and Sophia Mary Cooper nee Apthorpe. Father Railway Porter of Brandon Street Newington. Registered in Newington North, Southwark.
In 1911 I have Sophia Mary Cooper as a patient in Southwark Infirmary
They also had a daughter known as Maisie that I have never been able to trace at all, and I'm pretty sure that Maisie isn't her real name. In 1911 there is a Mary A Cooper also in hospital, but in Hackney. Coincidence? I don't know.
On the 1902 marriage cert George Cooper aged 21, a shunter, marries Sophia Mary Apthorpe 22.
His father is given as George Cooper, Shunter. They married in Walworth, Southwark.
A shunter wasn't a driver, but somebody who unhitched wagons.
That is the end of known facts..
1911 census shows a George Henry Cooper aged 6 born in Walworth living in Albany Road Southwark with grandparents.....George Cooper unemployed scaleman and cutter aged 55 from Warwick, Eliza tie maker 51 from Hayes Middx and EIGHT children (but no George). George was a butcher and his sons seem to be following in his footsteps.
My gut feeling is that this could be him.....but it doesn't fit in with the Iver Heath legend mentioned in my first post.
My mother claims that my father was the 3rd George Henry - certainly he is George the 3rd.
Hence my confusion and asking if anybody can find a George born in Iver Heath in 1881!!
If any of you experts can pinpoint something I would love to hear from you!
It's a shame that George Cooper is such a common name...