Living

Notes:

living - details excluded

Other Events and Attributes:

• _MILT: 1939-1945; Australian Army
• Residence: 1943-1980, 22 Prospect St, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Donald Esdale Birth date:19/08/1914
Mother's name: Charlotte Raddeker Father/parent's name: Ralph Esdale
Registration details:1914/C/12079

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_MILT:
Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
Name: Donald Esdale Birth Date: 19 Aug 1914 Birth Place: Rockhampton Queensland Year Range: 1940 - 1947 Enlistment Place: Rockhampton Queensland
Service Number: QX12232 Next of Kin: Ralph Esdale Series Description: B883: Army, 2nd Al F

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Donald married Jessie Edna COOPER. Jessie (daughter of Thomas Stewart COOPER and Jessie SWANSON) was born on 10 Oct 1917 in Queensland, Australia; died on 28 Mar 2013 in Mackay, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1943-1980, 22 Prospect St, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
Name: Jessie Edna Cooper Birth Date: 10 Oct 1917 Birth Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1917 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia
Father: Thomas Stewart Cooper Mother: Jessie Swanson
Registration Number: 014833

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Residence:
Australian electoral roll

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Died:
Published Mackay Mercury newspaper: ESDALE, Jessie Edna (nee Cooper) of Northview Aged Care Centre, Mackay, formerly of Rockhampton. Passed away 28th March, 2013. Mother of Stewart and Glenn

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Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 160445898
• Residence: 1942, 302 Murray St, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Thomas Stewart Cooper Birth date: 07/05/1889
Mother's name: Eleanor Evans Father/parent's name: William Cooper
Registration details:1889/C/10254

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Thomas Stewart Cooper
Death date: 16/05/1957
Mother's name: Eleanor Evans Father/parent's name: William
Registration details:1957/C/2306

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Buried:
Buried in the North Rockhampton Cemetery in the Presbyterian area, Compartment 17, Section 7, Grave 27

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Thomas married Jessie SWANSON on 6 Feb 1913 in Queensland, Australia. Jessie was born on 24 Dec 1892 in Queensland, Australia; died on 18 Oct 1974 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; was buried on 21 Oct 1974 in North Rockhampton Cemetery, North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 160445884

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Birth registration: Jessie Swanson Birth date: 24/12/1892 Mother's name: Elizabeth French Father/parent's name: Nicholas Swanson Registration details: 1893/C/5945

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Died:
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/
Death registration: Jessie Cooper Death date: 18/10/1974 Mother's name: Elizabeth French Father/parent's name: Nicholas Swanson Registration details: 1974/C/7717

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Notes:

Married:
Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
Name: Thomas Stewart Cooper Spouse Name: Jessie Swanson Marriage Date: 06 Feb 1913 Marriage Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1913 Registration Number: 003117 Page Number: 5225

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Steelworker
• _FGRAVE: 160445899
• Census: 1861, 1 Millers Court, St Michaels, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK
• Census: 1881, Bedwellty, Monmouth, Wales, UK
• Emigration: 6 Jul 1886, Arrived Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia aboard Duke of Westminster
• Residence: 1941, Davis St, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• _FNRL: 5 Sep 1941, Funeral notice, Rockhampton Morning Bulletin newspaper

Notes:

William and Eleanor emigrated aboard the Duke of Westminster which arrived in Moreton Bay on 6 July 1886. Eleanor would have been pregnant with their first child born in Australia; James Henry Cooper.

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Birth:
England & Wales Births 1837-2006
First name(s) WILLIAM Last name COOPER Birth year 1857
Birth quarter 1 Registration month - Mother's maiden name Bancroft
District Bath County Somerset Country England
Volume 5C Page 678

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From http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi birth for COOPER, William in Bathwick, Bath, mother's surname BANCROFT, ref BWK/6/331

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Census:
1861 census for 1 Millers Court, St Michaels, Bath:
RG number: RG09 Piece: 1687 Folio: 80 Page: 38
Richard COOPER, head, married, aged 31, Butcher, born 1830, Twerton, Somerset
Hannah COOPER, wife, aged 30 born 1831 Bath, Somerset
Catherine A COOPER, daughter, aged 7, born 1854 Bath, Somerset
Thomas R COOPER, son, aged 6, born 1855 Bath, Somerset
William COOPER, son, aged 4, born 1857 Bath, Somerset
James COOPER, son, aged 3, born 1858 Bath, Somerset
Henry COOPER, son, aged 1, born 1860 Bath, Somerset
Elizabeth COOPER, daughter, aged 1 month, born 1861 Bath, Somerset

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Census:
Household Record 1881 British Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
William COOPER Head M Male 24 Somerset, England Steel Worker
Elenor COOPER Wife M Female 23 Monmouth, England Wife
James OWENS Boarder U Male 27 Radnorshire, Wales Gardener Dom
Source Information:
Dwelling No 9 Rodrick Row
Census Place Bedwellty, Monmouth, Wales
Family History Library Film 1342263
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 5246 / 46
Page Number 9

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_FNRL:
THE Friends of Mr and Mrs J. H. Cooper, Mr and Mrs T. S. Cooper, Mr E. H. Cooper, Sydney (sons and daughters-in-law), Mr and Mrs G.Nunn (daughter and son-in-law), are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of their deceased beloved Father and Father-in law, the late MR WILLIAM COOPER, of Davis Street, to move from our Funeral Chapel, William Street, THIS (Friday) AFTERNOON, at 3.30 o'clock; for the North Rockhampton Cemetery.
FINLAYSON & McKENZIE,
Funeral Directors. Telephone No. 2269.

Family Notices. (1941, September 5). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878-1954), p. 4. Retrieved February 11, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56098440

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Died:
1941 deaths in the district of Rockhampton, No 3554/324, William Cooper, retired, male, 84 years, 4 Sep 1941, General Hospital, Rockhampton, cause: senility, chronic myocarditis, cert by Dr Joane Harris, father Richard Cooper, butcher, informant, Jas. H. Cooper, son, 25 Margaret St, Rockhampton, buried 5 Sep 1941, North Rockhampton Cemetery, born Bath, Somersetshire, England, lived 55 years, Queensland, married at Tregedar, Monmouthshire, England, at age 21, to Eleanor Evans. Living issue: James Henry, 54, Thomas Stewart, 52, Edwin Herbert, 44, Winifred Violet, 41, deceased: 3 males, 4 females.
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Australia Death Index, 1787-1985: Name: William Cooper Death Date: 4 Sep 1941
Death Place: Queensland Father's Name: Richard Registration Year: 1941
Registration Place: Queensland Registration number: 003554 Page Number: 471
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

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Buried:
Buried at North Rockhampton Cemetery in the Baptist area, Compartment 17, Section 4, Grave 254

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William married Eleanor EVANS on 20 Oct 1877 in Registry office, Tredegar, Wales, UK. Eleanor (daughter of George EVANS and Ann WHITE) was born on 11 Jul 1857 in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK; died on 8 Sep 1918 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; was buried on 9 Sep 1918 in South Rockhampton Cemetery, Rockhampton, Queensland, Aust. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGRAVE: 160407135
• Census: 1861, Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK
• Census: 1871, Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK
• Census: 1881, Bedwellty, Monmouth, Wales

Notes:

The following verse is found in the Cooper family Bible. Its origin is unknown and there are no matching internet searches.

It may even be that Eleanor wrote this herself, or else recalled the verse from her childhood back in Wales.

Whatever the truth, it is the prayer of someone who loved Jesus.


Hold Thou Me Up

Hold thou me up whenever the way is hidden

And clouds hang darkly in the sky above

When wild misgivings come to me unbidden

O Father hold me closely in thy love

Hold thou me up, when my weak heart is failing

Before the troubles of the way I take

Make me to feel that thou will all prevailing

That thou wilt succour me for Jesus sake

Hold thou me up under each new temptation

Lest I should fall beneath is subtle power

You, who art ever near, be my salvation

My rock, my fortress, in the trying hour

Hold thou me up till I in death and sleeping

Till I am far from danger, safe and free

In that fair land, where in thy gracious keeping

And I for evermore with thee.

Birth:
1857 Births in the Sub-district of Tredegar in the County of Monmonth
No 37
Eleventh July 1857 Forge Row Ebbw Vale
Eleanor
Girl
Father: George Evans
Mother: Ann Evans formerly White
Signature of witness: George Evans Father Forge Row Ebbw Vale

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Census:
1861 census for 4 Saddlers Row, Ebbw Vale:
George Evans, head, married, aged 29, Puddler, born Cardigan
Ann Evans, wife, aged 30, born Pembrokeshire
Eleanor Evans, dau, aged 4, born Ebbw Vale

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Census:
1871 census for 5 Nursery Rd, Ebbw Vale:
George Evans, head, aged 39, puddler, born Cardigan Town
Catherine Evans, wife, aged 45, born Ebbw Vale
Eleanor Evans, dau, unm, aged 13, dressmaker, born Ebbw Vale
Daniel Evans, son, aged 9, scholar, born Ebbw Vale
Ann Evans, dau, aged 5, born Ebbw Vale
David Davies, lodger, aged 66, scavenger, born Cardigan town

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Buried:
Buried in the South Rockhampton Cemetery in the Baptist area, Section 42, Grave 500

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Notes:

Married:
Confirmed by William's death cert

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