The families of TAYLOR and COOPER are my direct ancestors through my paternal grandmother, Laura Hilda TAYLOR. Below I have set out the two families, as I know them.
John COOPER was born about 1831 in Stanford, Worcestershire. On 19th February 1850 he married Mary Ann RUDD at Eastham on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. She was born about 1829 in Eastham. I have traced 13 children.
Ref |
Name |
Born |
Married |
Died |
1 |
Thomas |
1851 |
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2 |
Ann |
1852 |
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3 |
Isabella |
2nd July 1853 |
14th November 1873 at Upper Sapey, Herefordshire |
20th February 1933 |
4 |
John |
1855 |
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5 |
Mary |
1858 |
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6 |
Amilia |
1859 |
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7 |
Jane |
1860 |
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8 |
Elizabeth |
1860 |
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9 |
William |
1862 |
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10 |
James |
1864 |
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11 |
Sarah |
1866 |
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12 |
Charles |
1868 |
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13 |
Susan |
1874 |
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William TAYLOR was born in 1850 at Lindridge. The village is now in the north-west corner of Worcestershire, but over time has been transferred between Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire. He married Isabella COOPER abt December 1873, at Upper Sapey, Herefordshire. He worked as an agricultural labourer and farm bailiff, in and around the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border and lived at a number of locations – Tedstone Delamere, Tedstone Wafer, Upper Sapey and Wolferlow. William died in 1917, following an accident while working at Barnes Hall Farm, then on the southern edge of Worcester.
With the compensation his widow Isabella bought two houses, 236 & 238 Bath Road, Worcester. She remained there until her death on 20th February 1933. The two houses were left, one each, to her daughters Lily May TAYLOR and Dorothy Helen Ruth HUNT.
I have listed below William and Isabella’s children and their issue.
Ref |
Name |
Born |
Married |
Died |
1 |
Emma |
1874 |
Walter STEAD, Abt. June 1899 at Bromyard, Herefordshire |
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1.1 |
Doris |
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1.2 |
Joan |
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2 |
Ann |
1875 |
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3 |
Catherine |
1876 |
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4 |
William Henry |
1878 |
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5 |
Agnes |
1880 |
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6 |
Elizabeth |
24th October 1881 |
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7 |
Mary |
1883 |
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7.1 |
Kathleen Gladys |
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8 |
Lily May |
10th November 1885 |
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15th November 1964 |
9 |
Alfred George |
1888 |
Margaret |
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9.1 |
Wilfred |
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9.2 |
Eileen Margaret |
17th March 1916 |
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10 |
Albert |
1890 |
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10.1 |
‘Bertie’ |
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10.2 |
Nancy |
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10.3 |
Cyril |
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11 |
Florence |
1894 |
Ernest GRANT at Tamworth, Staffordshire |
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11.1 |
Dorothy |
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11.2 |
Muriel |
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Brian WATKINS |
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12 |
Dorothy Helen Ruth |
1895 |
Walter HUNT |
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12.1 |
Gordon |
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12.2 |
Roger |
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13 |
Laura Hilda |
27th January 1897 |
Walter Charles LAWRENCE |
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Having spoken to Muriel Watkins (11.2) recently it transpires that her mother Florence (11) is not the daughter of William and Isabella, but the daughter of Catherine (3).
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