Cooper or Corker?

[Pennines]

Yes - the parish register of his marriage is on Ancestry - just gives his name as Charles Hibbard.

Heywood - I hadn't actually mentioned the birth date on my previous message - so you didn't mis-read it. Don't worry.

Just wondering if his father John, died and his mother re-married someone called Cooper!! (That just came into my head as I was writing this - so I haven't checked - just being fanciful!)

[AlanBoyd]

In the 1861 census Charles and Elizabeth Hibbard have lodgers John and Sara Hibbard, John is also an etcher and gilder

In the 1857 marriage record of Charles Hibbard and Elizabeth Fearn his father is John Hibbard etcher.

Thus I believe that the lodgers are the parents of Charles Hibbard.

[hanes teulu]

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul 1869

[Stanwix England]

Thank you for your help everyone, this is really clearing things up.

I always seem to get the one family member with a discrepancy when I am doing my tree!

[Pennines]

Stanwix - it would be boring if it went smoothly!!

[Stanwix England]

Having explored this all further, thanks to your help, I found that Charles had a younger brother called Samuel born 1841.

He married and then named a son, Samuel Cooper Hibbard, in 1868.

He also has the habit of randomly using middle names and then not. On different census records, one or two of his kids get middle names, and then not on others, seemingly at random.

So clearly Cooper meant something to the family. I may never know.