by Warren Nunn
You know those English period dramas where an unsuspecting young lady becomes besotted by an older man, falls pregnant, gets married and then discovers that he already has a wife? If you think such tales are solely from the fertile imagination of a writer, think...
by Warren Nunn
Tracing the life of Jessie Elizabeth Coker, the daughter William Frederick Coker and Elizabeth Jane Mead, highlights for me the essence of doing genealogy. Jessie Coker wasn’t a difficult person to identify in the records but it was the records of those with...
by Warren Nunn
On 22 August 1918, Harold Card’s short, drama-filled life ended when a German shell burst near the village of Etinehem in the Villers-Bretonneux region of France, not far from the Somme. Just like millions of other young men who had needlessly died on battlefields in...
by Warren Nunn
The prison record of a criminal who spent time in Queensland’s infamous St Helena Island jail is a stark reminder of how human nature can be corrupted. This man, James Thomas Coker, embezzled money as a servant of a municipal authority. I am one of his many...
by Warren Nunn
Following is a list of Coker baptisms in the borough of Tower Hamlets, London (1813 to 1906). Name: Daniel Coker Baptism: 9 May 1813 Father’s Name: John Coker Occupation: Labourer Mother’s Name: Hannah Coker Address: Brackley St...
by Warren Nunn
Charles Cyril Coker (1918-2004) married Lil Sleaford. His older sister, Edna, married Lil’s brother John, while his eldest brother, Fred, was married to another of the Sleaford siblings, Rovena. He was known as Cyril.
