Harriet Elizabeth YATES

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, 18 Park Terrace, Canal Rd, Mile End Old Town, London, England, UK

Notes:

After death of John Septimus Coker in 1872, Harriet remarried.
Name: Harriet Elizabeth Coker [Yates] . Birth Date: abt 1855. Age: 21* Father's name: John Yates
Spouse's name: William Henry Matthews Spouse's Age: 22 Spouse's Father's Name: Peter Henry Matthews Marriage Date: 25 Dec 1876
Marriage Place: Croydon, Surrey, England
*Given her age when she remarried, Harriet must have been 16/17 when she married John Septimus Coker

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Birth:
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Harriet Elizth. Yates Gender: Female Birth Date: 4 Jun 1855 Baptism Date: 7 Aug 1859
Baptism Place: Saint Thomas,Stepney,London,England
Father: John Yates Mother: Eliza
FHL Film Number: 597931
NOTE: Her siblings Thomas and Frederick also baptised the same day. Surname also transcribed as Gates but, looking at original entry, it is definitely Yates.

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England and Wales Birth Registration Index
Name Harriet Elizabeth Yates Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep Registration Year 1855
Event Place Stepney, London, England
Volume 1C Page 451 Affiliate Line Number 24
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:265G-5GP

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Died:
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Harriet E Matthews Death Age: 70 Birth Date: abt 1851* Registration Date: Jan 1921 Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Registration District: Camberwell
Inferred County: London Volume: 1d Page: 803
*Question on whether this is the correct person based on fact age at death.

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Harriet married John Septimus COKER on 13 Jul 1872 in St James The Less Church, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. John (son of William COKER and Jane Elizabeth LAWSON) was born on 9 Feb 1849 in Stepney, Middlesex, London, England, UK; died on 11 Dec 1872 in 32 Bromley Street, Ratcliffe, London, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Page 187, 1872 marriage at St James the Less, Bethnal Green, Middlesex: No 373, July 13, John Septimus Coker, bachelor, gentleman, of 23 Grafton St, son of William Coker (deceased) and Harriet Elizabeth Yates, minor, spinster, of 294 Bethnal Green Rd, dau of John Yates, traveller. Witnesses: George Yates*, Eugenie Yates
* George Yates is Harriet's brother and also guardian as stated on John Coker's probate entry.

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1. Harriet Eliza Jane COKER was born on 21 May 1873 in Stepney, Middlesex, London, England, UK; died on 22 Oct 1946 in Newham, London, England, UK.