Baptism - George COOPER c1881 Iver Heath

[wookietoo]

I've found him 100%

Family legend and butchery is all wrong.

I am so delighted and it is directly related to you giving me the link to the 1901census.com.

I was looking  for railway occupations, found a couple and stopped, then noticed a George H Cooper silk tie cutter. Something about that rang a bell, and I looked up the full page through Ancestry.

There are the whole family living in a place called peabody buildings in the East End....and my mother kept mentioning peabody buildings!!

[wookietoo]

Not sure if this is the right ref: RG 13/261
and he is the right age - AND the 3rd generation Georege H Cooper

[Tati]

Possibly a red herring but I searched the 1911 for a George Cooper, occupation Shunter, and there are ony 3:

George Henry Cooper age 31, occupation shunter, in Derby district (I can't quite make out who's in the household with him, but I see there's a George Henry Cooper age 6 in Derby as well ...)

George Cooper age 30, occupation shunter, in Wakefield district

George Edward Cooper age 25, occupation shunter, in Lambeth district

Grrrr ... can't wait for that census to be included in a subscription  

Oops - just seeing new post ... good   

[Necromancer]

RG13/261; Folio: 56; Page: 17 - St Luke, Finsbury


Now I'm totally bewildered !

How does a chap who is a Silk Tie Cutter, with a Father who is some sort of Printer get married a year later south of the River and transform himself into a Railway employee (shunter / porter ) and his dad into similar ?

So we've moved from Iver in Bucks Farming / Ag Labbing to Camberwell and Butchering to Finsbury ...



Hmmmm, I dont think you are there yet ....   

[wookietoo]

Every time I mentioned the research my mum keeps saying that they came from peabody buildings......

[Necromancer]

Hi Tati -

did you spot any London PoBs for the 'Norveners' you found ?




Hi Wookie - dont mean to rain on your parade - it is possible that occupations were changed of course .....

Can you see the chap from the 1901 Peabody address in the 1911 census at all, I can only do superficial searches, but a silk tie maker of that name & age is in Islington ....

COOPER GEORGE Male 1881 age 30 Islington London



So I was sort of correct in questioning if the George you found as a grandchild in Camberwell was the right one, but ....... wasnt the Grandmother Eliza a Tie Maker - is that what is jogging a memory ?

[wookietoo]

I just spoke to my mother and she said that Maisie definitely lived in Peabody buildings.....

I'll have a look at the 1911 now....

[Necromancer]

If you use that 1901 site I showed you for address searches, there are Peabody addresses (Bldgs etc) in Holborn, Westminster, Bermondsey and Southwark amongst 300 or so hits ....

[wookietoo]

oh no!!!!!!
Surely I can't be plagued by that much of a coincidence 
I was so so pleased to have found him....

Ihave a horrible feeling that you are right though - I just searched 1911 and found this:

COOPER, GEORGE HEAD MARRIED 32 M 54 GOLD BLOCKER LONDON WESTMINSTER     
COOPER, EMMA WIFE MARRIED  F 52  LONDON SOUTHWARK     
COOPER, FLORENCE DAUGHTER SINGLE  F 27 UMBRELLA TIPPER LONDON HOXTON     
COOPER, HELENA DAUGHTER SINGLE  F 16 ERRANG GIRL LONDON ST LUKE'S     
COOPER, ALFRED SON   M 12 SCHOOL LONDON ST LUKE'S     
JACKSON, CHARLES BOARDER SINGLE  M 31 WAITER CLUB LONDON CLEKENWELL

Dad is still a printer in 1911

I going to go and have a sob now......
I just told the whole family that I found him!