Catherine Cooley (FMMM)

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Name - Catherine Cooley or Katherine Cooley or Kate Cooley

Date and place of birth - c1851 in St Pancras or Islington

Names of parents - Thomas Cooley and Mary Ann Quain

Date and place of baptism - not found

Details of each of his or her marriages
to John Walker, 25 Dec 1871, St Pancras Old Church
and possibly to Alfred Rowe between 1884 and 1890 (that's the birth of last Walker child and birth of first Rowe child)


Occupation(s) - Laundress, Charwoman

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK)
1861 census - 1½ Suter(?) Buildings, Somers Town, St Pancras, Middlesex
1871 census - 2 Drapers Place, St Pancras
1881 census - 22 Torrington Mews, St Giles in the Field, Middlesex
1891 census - 13 Redhill Street, St Pancras
1901 census - 29 Redhill Street, St Pancras

Date, place and cause of death - not found

Date and place of burial / cremation. - not found

Details of will / administration of their estate - none found - unlikely that there is one

Memorial inscription - none



After the death of her first husband at least four of Kate's children from that marriage were in orphanages and another was later in the care of her brother James Cooley. It was finding this connection with James in 1901 (at the house in Torrington Mews Kate was in in 1881) that makes me pretty certain I have the right parents - although I don't have a birth certificate or baptism for Kate herself.