Aged 6 months in April 1881.

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Aged 6 months in April 1881.

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]

1891 Aged 10 living with parents

1901, Aged 20, possibly with his mother at his sister’s house. Not sure whether Mary Cheshire is his sister.

1911 ??

Family account is that Daniel was killed in action in Flanders during the first world war. Military records (Pte Daniel Cooper with serial no. 302789) show that a Daniel Cooper of the Durham Light Infantry (enlisted in Bolsover) was killed in action on 23 Dec 1917 in Italy although initially it was recoded that he was in France.

The family account never mentioned that he was married or had any children but the military enrolement record for Daniel shows that he was married to Ethel Gardner (marriage 14th May 1907 Rugby register office) and he had two children (Frederick Daniel b 14 March1907 in Rugby and George Henry, born 1 March 1908 in Peterborough.)

The forces war records for this Daniel name his parents as Daniel and Elizabeth which is a match but they estimated his date of birth as 1882. The records give his age on sign up on 9th December 2015 as both 35yrs and 1 month and 34years and 1 month. He is recorded as being 5’ 6” tall with 35” chest with 3” chest expansion.

Subsequent records from September 1919 definitevely identify this Pte Daniel Cooper as the son of Elizabeth and brother of Job, .

The military records for Daniel Cooper initially recorded that he was killed in action in France, but France has been crossed out and replaced with Italy.

In what appears to be Feb 1918 the army writes to the Chief Constable of Derbyshire stating that Ethel has requested pension for two dependent children but that one was born prior to her marriage to Daniel. However, they had both claimed he was Daniel’s son. The acting chief constable replies to confirn the Frederic Daniel was indeed Daniel’s son and that the parents married shortly after the birth and Daniel alway supported him.

On 9th May 1918 there is an instruction that any of Daniel’s personal effects should be returned to Ethel at her address in Bolsover, Chesterfield.
On 17th May 1918 the army returned Daniel’s personal possessions to Ethel: letters, coins, gold ring, cigarette lighter and scissors.

On July 5 th 1818 Ethel is sent a notice that she is to receive a pesnion for herself and two dependent children of 25/5 per week beginning from 15th July 1918.

On 29th July 1919 the Infantry Records office in York writes to Ethel to inform her that Daniel (mistakenly called David, although with correct serial number) has been exhumed and for proper burial at Giavera British Cemetry, 6 miles South West of Conagliano, Italy.
A family members record from Ancestry, referencing Find a Grave as the source, gives Daniel’s date of death as 23 Dec 2017, with burial at Provincia di Treviso, Veneto, Italy, Plot 1. Row. c. Grave 8.

Daniel was incorrectly recorded as David (crossed out and corrected; this is almost certainly transcription from handwriting which sometimes made Daniel look as though it might be David) from time to time throughout his service record.

An Ethel Cooper died in 1918 aged 34 - this may or may not be Daniel’s widow as there was also an Ethel Cooper born and raised in the same area. If this is the death of Daniel’s widow then she would not have received the letter about the reburial.

In September 1919 a further document recording the next of kin of Daniel ties Pte Daniel Cooper, 302789) to Elizabeth Cooper (mother) living at the Alms House, Newcastle, Staffs, Job Cooper (full brother), age 30 living at Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke on Trent and Mary Cheshire (full sister) age 42 living at 49 Greatbatch Avenue, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent. For father and wife it states “none” indicating they have died. Daniel’s children are living separately in Rugby, presumably with relatives of their mother: Daniel, 12 at 63 New Street, New Belton, Rugby and George, 10 at 3 Pinfold Street, New Belton, Rugby. It was signed by Mary Cheshire on 22nd September 1919 and witnessed by the curate from Hartshill Chapel, Princes Road.

On 15th December 1919 there is an entry in the record instructing that any further effects of Daniel should be sent to George Cooper at 3 Pinfold Street, however, the entry is stamped By Infantry Records Yord with date 29 Dec 1919 that there are “No Effects”.

A memorial scroll was issued to Daniel’s sons and received and signed for on 14th May 1920 by D. Cooper (assume Frederick Daniel Cooper)

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