Albert Card: a complicated man who abandoned his family

Albert Card: a complicated man who abandoned his family

By Warren Nunn (first published Nov 2024) To say that Albert Card was an eccentric individual is an understatement. The course of his life and the events along the way are a study in the vagaries both of his character and the situations in which he involved himself....
Arthur Coker and his cancer cure claims

Arthur Coker and his cancer cure claims

By Coker descendant Warren Nunn Arthur Coker was plagued by painful skin cancer. Despite medical attention, his condition worsened. It almost drove him to suicide. In desperation he applied an arsenic-based potion to the “rodent ulcer” on his nose. Within...
James Thomas Coker died without a will

James Thomas Coker died without a will

By Coker descendant Warren Nunn When James Thomas Coker died in 1920, he did not leave a will. He was also insolvent. His son Arthur acted on behalf of the family in dealing with the estate through the Public Curators’ Office. After the property in Glenmore...

Five Coker sisters baptised the same day

In family research, odd events draw your attention. Run-of-the-mill births, deaths, and marriages are what you would expect to find. But it’s the unexpected that gets you thinking as to what happened at the time that led several people in the same family to get...

Ellen Jessie Coker – caught up in bigamy

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...