by Warren Nunn
Coker My maternal line surnames include Coker, Silver, Aldridge, Todd, and Dobbs Mining equipment law suit fails In 1890, Henry Aldridge faced a Rockhampton Small Debts Court to answer questions over mining equipment that had not been paid for. The proceedings were...
by Warren Nunn
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...
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
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...
