| Name |
Thomas Richard COOPER |
| Birth |
JUL-SEP 1854 |
Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK  |
- From http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi - COOPER Thomas Richard at Abbey, Bath, mother's surname BANCROFT, ref ABB/11/468
Name Thomas Richard Cooper Registration Date 1854 [1854] Quarter of the Year Jul-Aug-Sep Registration Place Bath, Somerset, England Volume 5c Page 657
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| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1861 |
1 Millers Court, St Michaels, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK |
| _MILT |
22 Aug 1876 |
| 1/17th regiment British Army 1876-1883 |
- Notes from army records:
22 Aug 1876. Thomas Cooper born St Michael's, Bath, Somerset, aged 21 years. Labourer. Unmarried. Member of Royal Monmouth Militia.
Description. Aged 21 years. Five feet, seven inches. Sallow complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair. Orange scar below right lower maxilla.
No 1168 in 1/17th regiment British Army. Posted to East Indies from 6th October 1876.
Awarded fourth class cert 3 Apr 1877.
Service history. Home 24 Aug 1876 to 4 October 1876, 42 days. India 5 October 1876 to 11 Mar 1883, six years, 158 days. Home 12 Mar 1883.
Next of Kin. Richard Cooper (father), Walker Street, Bath.
Medical history while in India includes seven bouts of ague (malaria) for which he was prescribed quinine. Also had balanitis (inflammation of penis), fehricula (abscess?), jaundice, dyspepsia and phymosis (a condition where, in men, the foreskin cannot be fully retracted over the glans penis).
NOTE: At top of page of his proceedings of attestation form, there is a note that he has younger brothers named William, James and Henry.
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| Occupation |
1890 |
| Wheelchairman |
| _FGRAVE |
222798138 |
| Death |
10 Mar 1890 |
Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK |
- By suicide/drowning. As per newspaper report The Bath & Cheltenham Gazette, 19th March 1890
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| Notes |
- The Bath & Cheltenham Gazette, 19th March 1890
THE SUICIDE OF A WHEELCHAIRMAN - Mr. B. H. Watts, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest on Thursday on the body of Thomas Richard Cooper, wheelchairman, of 6 Henrietta Buildings, who drowned himself in the river at the back of his house, and whose body was recovered in about 24 hours. - Emily Cooper, widow, said her husband was 36 years of age. He came home between a quarter to nine and nine o?clock, and said that he had stayed out late in hopes of getting a job as there had been nothing doing. He went out and got some beer and provisions. When he returned he had his supper. He drank about half-a-pint. She put her eldest child to bed and deceased went up with her. He undressed and got into bed. He complained that she had not done some washing which he wanted. She told him she would go down and do it before going to bed. He was a little annoyed, but not very angry. There was no altercation. She went down to do the washing and he came down from three to five minutes afterwards. He had on his drawers, shirt, and undershirt. He asked her to come to bed, and she replied that she would when she had finished what she wanted to do. He picked up the lamp off the mantel piece and said he would throw it down if she did not come to bed. She noticed that he looked strange. She picked up the baby with the intention of going up to bed. He dashed the pipe from this mouth on the ground and said, "Good bye, I am going; goodbye." He had been to bed with the pipe. She put the baby on the sofa and rushed after him, but before she got into the yard he was in the river. She took a clothes prop, jumped down onto the bank and touched him with it. She begged him to take hold of it and come back to his little children, but he neither moved nor spoke. She called for help and her next door neighbour came instantly, but could do nothing as he had floated out of reach. She did not hear him make any noise after he had jumped into the water. Three years ago last September he threatened to commit suicide. Then he was not sober and seized a razor to cut his throat, and she snatched it out of his hand. He would give no reason why he would do it; they had had no dispute. He had served six years and five months in the army in India. She had not noticed anything strange in his manner lately. The children had been ill for some time, and deceased had been worried because work was slack. She denied having worried her husband or had any dispute with him. - The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane.
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| Person ID |
I7009 |
Warren Nunn's family tree |
| Last Modified |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Richard COOPER, b. Abt 1830, Twerton, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK d. Abt 1889, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK (Age 59 years) |
| Mother |
Hannah BANCROFT, b. Abt 1829, Somersetshire, England, UK d. Abt 1868, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK (Age 39 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Sep 1851 |
St Swithins, Walcot, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK |
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| Family ID |
F720 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Emily HERRING, b. Abt 1865, Winforton, Herefordshire, England, UK d. 31 Dec 1931, Cotford Mental Hospital, Cotford, Somersetshire, England, UK (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
JAN-MAR 1886 |
Somersetshire, England, UK |
- Name: Thomas Richard Cooper Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1886 Registration district: Bath Inferred County: Somerset Volume Number: 5c
Page Number: 909 Thomas Richard Cooper and Emily Herring
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| Children |
| | 1. Emily COOPER, b. Jan 1886, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK d. Feb 1886, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Albert Edwin COOPER, b. 7 Jan 1887, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK d. 26 Feb 1950, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK (Age 63 years) |
| | 3. Reginald Thomas COOPER, b. 22 Jan 1889, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK d. 6 Oct 1955, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK (Age 66 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2370 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jul 2025 |
1854 - 1890 (35 years)