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"Living in garbett st ladywood hepzibah cook is a coal yard minder but ive never seen this written on a census before..."living in a coal shed 8ft by 10ft occupied by 4 people" 1 being young rachel aged 9... i really shudder to think what conditions they were all living in" Wow! I can't even...

Thanks for your help as well MWS and pjmburns. I didn't know about the other children. I noticed the Houghton family but didn't think to try to trace any of them. My mom sent for his Middlemore records. That is how we know that Rachel wrote to Mrs Isenor in Nova Scotia inquiring about William. I...

Thanks Lyn! Yes, I have seen the 1881 census. It makes me smile - he literally married Rachel, the girl next door. Maybe that was a happy hopeful time for them.

Yes, I bet. have no doubt that Rachel feared for her son and thought she was saving William from a life of struggle by sending him to Canada. And that one decision, resulted in generations of ancestors now in Ontario. Sometimes we wonder though if we are missing family back in England though...

How very neat, Lyn! This is so exciting to see. Imagine if it were him!! Thanks so much for showing me this. My mom and dad will get quite the kick out of it.

Thank you so much for your welcome and assistance Lyn! Yes, it was a very sad story. Unfortunately, my great grandfather William also had his share of tragedy. He eventually married and moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario. They lost a daughter Florence as a baby to choking. They had two sons as...

Hello, I would like to please request some help locating information about what happened to my great great grandmother after 1895. Rachel Cook was born in 1862 (father William Cook) and married my great great grandfather Charles Box on 22 Aug 1881. They lived on Brass St (Warwickshire...