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Still worrying at this Cope family.
I found Harry in 1901 in Metheringham, Lincs, groom (domestic) in the vet's household, but I cannot find Frederick in 1901. Do I need to research the Boer War? Is that where he might be? However, although this family seems to be the only link between the Copes and Stanton under Bardon, I cannot see a candidate for May anywhere in the direct line.
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06-01-14, 15:16
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06-01-14, 16:04
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Kite, this is all now looking a lot more promising. In 1911, when Frederick is lodging in Stanton under Bardon, it turns out that there are two other Copes from Keisby living in the next village.
W H (William Henry) is a labourer above ground in the pit and his brother Arthur describes himself as a 'collier down' - in other words he works underground. I sense a subtle social distinction here, but am not sure which way it goes. All I need to do now is follow them backwards and see if I can find a May anywhere!
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10-01-14, 16:39
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It was all looking so promising and then the marriage certificate arrived.
May Cope 25 Spinster Domestic Work [address] Charles Cope Miner All I have to do now is find him... The address May has given is no help as it is Uncle John's parents' address. Cover me - I'm going in!
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10-01-14, 16:44
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http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/78...l=ReturnRecord
Could this be them in 1901 at Mavesyn Ridware in Staffordshire?
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10-01-14, 17:03
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Seems to fit.
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10-01-14, 18:38
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http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/23...l=ReturnRecord
This May (who I now think is our May) in 1911. Working as a housemaid at the age of 13. As she had so much sadness later in her life, I hope they were nice to her and treated her well.
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11-01-14, 12:31
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The death certificates for the children arrived today. Gold star service from the GRO - I only ordered them on Monday afternoon. It looks as if it might just have been rotten luck.
Reginald died at home at one day old from a cerebral haemorrhage after a difficult labour. Dorothy died in the infirmary at the age of one month from inanition (the exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water). The death certificate also notes that she was born at seven months, so I'm guessing that this relates then to the difficulties of nourishing a premature baby 80 years ago. If the cause of death had been the same on both certificates it might have pointed to something genetic that maybe could not have been resolved until the last generation, but a baby damaged in a difficult labour and a prem baby who fails to thrive, that just sounds like rotten luck to me. Strange isn't it? I've been at this for 28 years this year and I'm still finding stuff in the twentieth century that has the power to move me deeply and, of course, to take my mind off the wretched Bodycotes!
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11-01-14, 12:51
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Yes it can get emotional. I remember getting weepy when I realised that my great grandmothers nephew had died in WW1 very soon after getting married and would never see his baby daughter who was born a few months later.
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05-06-20, 13:14
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Turning out my parents’ papers this morning, I find a postcard dated 1915 and addressed to May at Ravenstone Hall, which is not that far from Stanton under Bardon. I guess she was in service there. The postcard is from her brother Charles who was serving with the Tigers in France, as was Uncle John.
There are other postcards in the same bundle addressed to May from “your sweetheart Aubrey”. I wonder who he was and what happened to him.
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