| 1. | Thomas Richard COOPER was born in JUL-SEP 1854 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK; died on 10 Mar 1890 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK. Other Events and Attributes:
- _FGRAVE: 222798138
- Census: 1861, 1 Millers Court, St Michaels, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK
- _MILT: 22 Aug 1876; 1/17th regiment British Army 1876-1883
- Occupation: 1890; Wheelchairman
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.
Birth:
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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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.
Died:
By suicide/drowning. As per newspaper report The Bath & Cheltenham Gazette, 19th March 1890
Thomas married Emily HERRING in JAN-MAR 1886 in Somersetshire, England, UK. Emily (daughter of William HERRING and Esther PHILLIPS) was born about 1865 in Winforton, Herefordshire, England, UK; died on 31 Dec 1931 in Cotford Mental Hospital, Cotford, Somersetshire, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Emily COOPER
 was born in Jan 1886 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK; died in Feb 1886 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK.
- 3. Albert Edwin COOPER was born on 7 Jan 1887 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK; died on 26 Feb 1950 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK; was buried in Feb 1950 in Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK.
- 4. Reginald Thomas COOPER was born on 22 Jan 1889 in Bath, Somersetshire, England, UK; died on 6 Oct 1955 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK; was buried in Oct 1955 in St Peter and St Paul, Weston in Gordano, Somerset, England, UK.
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