Job Cooper, 18781940 (aged 61 years)

Name
Job /Cooper/
Given names
Job
Surname
Cooper
Birth
9 July 1878 36 34
Pitshill, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent
Latitude: 53.069751 Longitude: -2.199377
Citation details: Birth certificate
Birth of a brother
Source: BDM Birth Index
Citation details: 1880 Q4 Wolstandon 6b 107
British Queen
Victoria
from 20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli
from 20 February 1874 to 23 April 1880
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
from 23 April 1880 to 1 February 1886
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone
from 1 February 1886 to 25 July 1886
Christening
Citation details: Parish Chapelry of Lane End page 576
Christening of a sister
Citation details: Staffordshire Parish Records Parish Chapelry of Lane End page 576
Christening of a sister
Citation details: Parish Chapelry of Lane End page 576
Christening of a brother
Citation details: Staffs Parish records Chapelry of Lane End page 578
Death of a paternal grandfather
Citation details: Grave #166 St Martin's Church, Talke, Grave #166 -, Isaac Cooper, Victoria St, Silverdale, 22 June 1888, 68, Sarah, w, 22 Sept 1904, 89
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
from 25 July 1886 to 15 August 1892
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone
from 15 August 1892 to 5 March 1894
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Archibald Primrose
from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895
Death of a maternal grandmother
Source: BMD Death Index
Citation details: 1897 Q4 Newcastle under Lyme 6b 36
Shared note: Age about 72
Marriage
Birth of a son
Death of a father
3 May 1902
Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
Latitude: 53.072791 Longitude: -2.261553
Citation details: #77 St Martin's Church, Talke, Grave #77 -, Mary, w/o Daniel Cooper, of Silverdale, 1 Aug 1870, 28, Allen, s, 27 April 1864, 9 months, Ephraim, s, 29 August 1870, 4 weeks, Daniel, above, 3 May 1902, 6, 0
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
from 25 June 1895 to 12 July 1902
The Boer War
Battle for control of southern Africa
from 11 October 1899 to 31 May 1902
Birth of a daughter
Death of a paternal grandmother
Citation details: Gravestone #166 St Martin's Church, Talke, Grave #166 -, Isaac Cooper, Victoria St, Silverdale, 22 June 1888, 68, Sarah, w, 22 Sept 1904, 89
Birth of a son
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour
from 12 July 1902 to 5 December 1905
Birth of a son
Source: BDM Birth Index
Citation details: Stoke-on-Trent Q3 6b/185
Date of entry in original source: 1906
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
from 5 December 1905 to 5 April 1908
Birth of a son
Source: Family account
Citation details: Daniel’s own written account of his life
Christening of a son
Source: Family account
Citation details: Daniel’s own written account of his life
British King
Edward VII
from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910
Olympic Games
Games of the IV Olympiad
from 27 April 1908 to 31 October 1908
London, England
Birth of a daughter
Source: Census
Citation details: 1911
Birth of a daughter
Death of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Source: BDM Birth Index
Citation details: 1914 Q3 Stoke on Trent 6b 390
Source: Family account
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Herbert Henry Asquith
from 5 April 1908 to 6 December 1916
Death of a brother
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
from 6 December 1916 to 23 October 1922
Birth of a granddaughter
Birth of a grandson
about 1931
Cheadle, Staffordshire
Latitude: 52.987356 Longitude: -1.986403
British King
George V
from 6 May 1910 to 20 January 1936
The Great War
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Bonar Law
from 23 October 1922 to 22 May 1923
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
from 22 May 1923 to 22 January 1924
Death of a son
Death of a sister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Ramsey MacDonald
from 22 January 1924 to 7 June 1935
Birth of a grandson
British King
Edward VII
from 20 January 1936 to 11 December 1936
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
from 7 June 1935 to 28 May 1937
Birth of a grandson
British King
George VI
from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain
from 28 May 1937 to 10 May 1940
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
from 10 May 1940 to 26 July 1945
World War 2
Death of a mother
Death
about July 1940 (aged 61 years)
Source: BMD Death Index
Citation details: 1940 Q3 Stoke 6b 325
Family with parents
father
18421902
Birth: 25 April 1842 22 21 Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
Death: 3 May 1902Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
mother
1844
Birth: 8 July 1844 30 19 51 Fletcher Street, Newcastle under Lyme
Death:
Marriage Marriageabout September 1874Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
16 months
elder sister
18751933
Birth: about 1875 32 30 Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Death: 1933
3 years
elder sister
18771947
Birth: about 1877 34 32 Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
Death: about 1947
18 months
himself
18781940
Birth: 9 July 1878 36 34 Pitshill, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent
Death: about July 19408 Milner Street
2 years
younger brother
18801917
Birth: about October 1880 38 36 Goldenhill
Death: 23 December 1917In first world war, Italy
Father’s family with Mary Hancock
father
18421902
Birth: 25 April 1842 22 21 Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
Death: 3 May 1902Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
stepmother
18421870
Birth: about 1842 Silverdale, Staffordshire
Death: 1 August 1870Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
Marriage Marriage14 January 1864St Martin’s Church, Talke, Staffordshire, Talke, Staffordshire, Staffordshire
7 months
half-brother
18641865
Birth: about July 1864 22 22
Death: 27 April 1865
3 years
half-sister
5 years
half-brother
18701870
Birth: July 1870 28 28
Death: August 1870
Family with Elizabeth Scalley
himself
18781940
Birth: 9 July 1878 36 34 Pitshill, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent
Death: about July 19408 Milner Street
wife
18791941
Birth: 28 February 1879 25 18 8 Alcock's Entry, Shelton, Stoke on Trent
Death: about March 19418 Milner Street
Marriage Marriage30 December 1900Wellington Church, Hanley, Staffordshire
1 year
son
19011931
Birth: about 1901 22 21
Death: about 1931
2 years
daughter
19031997
Birth: 2 April 1903 24 24
Death: 1997Clethorpes
2 years
son
19051978
Birth: 11 April 1905 26 26 Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Death: 23 October 1978Cheddleton, Staffordshire
13 months
son
19061954
Birth: 20 May 1906 27 27 Milner Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
Death: 14 April 1954Chell Green, Stoke on Trent
3 years
son
19091996
Birth: 16 May 1909 30 30 36 Windmill Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
Death: 14 May 1996Leamington, NSW, Australia
3 years
daughter
2 years
daughter
19132004
Birth: 25 February 1913 34 33 Hanley, Stoke on Trent
Death: June 2004
14 months
daughter
19142009
Birth: 19 April 1914 35 35 Stoke on Trent
Death: 4 February 2009Stafford
4 years
son
2 years
son
19192013
Birth: January 1919 40 39
Death: 3 July 2013Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
3 years
son
Birth
Citation details: Birth certificate
Christening
Citation details: Parish Chapelry of Lane End page 576
Marriage
Death
Source: BMD Death Index
Citation details: 1940 Q3 Stoke 6b 325
Shared note

Job's birth was registered on 10th September which is after the 42 day limit. He was registered by his mother who made her mark as, presumably, she was unable to write.

His family was a strong Primitive Methodist family from Goldenhill (family thought he came from Silverdale probably because that is where his parents later lived). The Cooper family is said to have owned a small mine. There is some evidence of members of the Cooper family being involved with mines and if they did own one it is likely to have been a drift mine.

In 1881 and 1891 Job was living with his mother and father, Daniel and Elizabeth, nee Bailey. See Daniel Cooper (25/4/1842)

1888 3rd May - baptised at Chapelry of Lane End, Longton together with three siblings. Parent Daniel and Elizabeth. Address given as 6 Catherine Street. Father’s trade is given as miner. [Parish record page 576 entrie 8062-8065]

On 30th December 1900 Job married an Irish Catholic. According to family report this caused rift in family as she was considered to be both of the wrong faith and beneath him. As a result Job’s children grew up with little or no contact with their paternal grandparents, aunts and uncles. (Note although the Cooper family described her as an Irish Catholoc she was the 2nd generation born in England).

Job gave his age at marriage as 23 which is one year older than would be expected from his birth certificate. Elizabeth was 22.
When he married Job gave his address as 32 Berkley Street, Hanley and his occupation as potter’s presser.

The family accounts say that the marriage took place at a registry office in Stoke but the marriage certificate gives the place as the Parish Church of Wellington, Staffordshire and they married according to the rites of the established church.

One of the witnesses to the marriage was Mary Ellen Rathbone, first cousin to Elizabeth (Mary Ellen was daughter of Elizabeth's aunt (mothers sister) Mary Ann Burke. Elizabeth's family appear to have been close to her cousin's family. Mary Ellen later married Thomas Shemilt. The other witness was Herbert Faskett.

The 1901 census records Job, aged 22 living with his wife Elizabeth, aged 21 in shared accommodation. They have two rooms at 56 St Mark's Street Hanley (Cauldon or Shelton). The other rooms are occupied by the Hollins family, Elijah a 58 year old widow and his son George 24 and his brother Thomas, 32. Job’s occupation is given as a potter's earth presser and the Hollins are all underground coal hewers.

1911: Job is entered (and signed) as W Job Cooper,33, Potters Jollier and living at 18 Windmill Street, Hanley with his wife Elizabeth 32 and six children from James WIlliam,10 to Mary, 1 month. Job was born in Tunstall and all the others in Hanley. Their house had four rooms including the kitchen but not the bathroom. This suggests they had two bedrooms. Job and Elizabeth had been married 11 years and had had 6 children born alive, all still living.

According to family accounts Job worked as a jiggerer in Bennets pottery at Shelton. He liked to go to the pub on a Saturday night and he used to drink with his mates in Sherrat's pub in Bethesda Street Hanley. One of his mates was William Deakin. Their children Elizabeth Deakin and Wilfred Cooper eventually married.

Job's children used to go to the pub and lift each other up to look in through the window in the hope of attracting his attention and persuading him to give them pocket money. His daughter May said that he was always very generous to his mates.

1921 The family has moved to 8 Milner Street, Hanley, Staffordshire. Job, 41, born 1879 in Tunstall, a general labourer, unemployed and last worked at the gas works, British Gas Light Co in Broad Street, Hanley, Elizabeth his wife, 41 born 1880 in Hanley; With them are their children:
James William, son, 19, born 1901, Hanley an out of work mine labourer, previously worked underground at Shelton Iron Co.
Joseph, son, 16 born 1905 in Hanley previously worked as a haulage labourer in the coal mine of Shelton Iron Co.
Wilfred, son, 15 born 1906, Hanley working as an assistant drayman for D Lewis and Sons Ltd, Wholesale Grocers, Tine Street, Hanley
Daniel, son 12, born 1909, Hanley, May, daughter 8 born 1913, Hanley, Eliza, daughter 6, born 1914 Hanley, Bernard, son 4, born 1916, Hanley, Winston, son, 2 born 1919 Hanley. All these except Winston were in full time education.

1939 Register Job, 60 date of birth 29 July 1879 is identified as a general labourer, his wife Elizabeth 60, date of birth 29th Feb 1879 !!!! is identified as Market Assistant. They are living with three of their children at 8 Milner Street, Stoke on Trent. The children are Elsie store shop assitant dob 15th July 1914, Francis furnishings salesman dob 24 Feb 1922 and Winston, clerk, dob 29 Jan 1919. Elsie’s surname is later crossed out and replaced with ? Ball Bell. She later married Clifford Ball.

Death recorded in Q3 1940 aged 61 which implies died before 9th July when he would have been 62. According to a memoir written by his son Daniel in 1980, Job died in 1941 “as the result of a fall while fixing the blackout on the window”.