On Thursday, the 2d inst., at East Hill, Wincanton, the wife of Edward Yalden Cooper, Esq., of a son.
The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 6 Mar 1837, p. 4 (and other papers)
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John Wilson son of Edward Yalden Cooper of Wincanton, attorney, and Catherine Elizabeth (baptismal record)
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At the time of the 1851 England Census John W Cooper, aged 16, born in Wincanton Somerset, scholar, and brothers William E Cooper and Frederick E Cooper, were boarding in Warminster Wiltshire.
At the time of the 1861 England Census John Wilson Cooper, aged 24, born in Wincanton Somerset, 3rd class clerk War Office, was lodging at Fur Cottage, Goding Place, Putney Surrey.
At the time of the 1871 England Census John W Cooper, aged 34, born in Wincanton Somerset, unmarried, senior clerk War Office, was visiting solicitor Stephen B Dixon in Church Road, Pewsey Wiltshire.
At the time of the 1881 England Census John W Cooper, aged 44, born in Wincanton Somerset, senior clerk War Office, and wife Jessie, aged 27, born in Kensington Middlesex, were living at 23 The Chase, Clapham London. Present were daughters Jessie M (5) of Kensington, scholar, and Ethel B (1 mo) of Clapham Surrey.
In November 1882 John Wilson Cooper of 23 the Chase, Clapham in co. Surrey, clerk in the war office, was co-executor of the Will of his brother-in-law Henry Stewart Drewry of Hampstead.
In April 1888 John Wilson Cooper of the War Office in the county of Middlesex, esquire, was co-executor of the Will of his late uncle Thomas Blizard Curling of Brighton, Esq.
In March 1889 John Wilson Cooper of the War Office in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, was granted Administration of the personal estate of his late aunt Frances Sophia Curling (previously wife of Thomas Blizard Curling, Esquire).
At the time of the 1891 England Census John W Cooper, aged 54, born in Wincanton Somerset, civil service, Principal Clerk War Office, and wife Jessie, aged 37, born in West Brompton Middlesex, were living at 23 The Chase, Clapham London. Present were daughters Jessie M (15) of West Brompton, scholar, and Ethel B (10) of Clapham Surrey.
In January 1898 John Wilson Cooper, esquire, and brothers William Edward Cooper and George Henry Cooper, solicitors, were granted Probate of their late father's personal effects.
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John Wilson Cooper died aged 65 years. 3
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John Wilson Cooper of the Chase Clapham Surrey, died 13 January 1903 at Chew Magna Somersetshire. Probate 14 February to Jessie Cooper, widow, and Stephen Brown Dixon, solicitor. Effects £9345 4s. 4d. 4
Marriage Information:
John married Jessie Broster, daughter of John Broster, Esq. and Mary Rachel Turner, on 15 Sep 1874 in St. Paul's Church, South Hampstead, Camden, Surrey, England. (Jessie Broster was born in 1853 in West Brompton, Kensington, Middlesex, England, christened 23 Dec 1853 in St. Mary, West Brompton, Kensington & Chelsea, London, England, and died 24 Nov 1931 at The Chase, Clapham, Surrey, England.)
Marriage Notes:
John Wilson Cooper, full age, bachelor, clerk at War Office, resident of 131 King Henry Road, son of Edward Yalden Cooper, solicitor, and
Jessie Broster, age 20, spinster, resident of 1 Windsor Place Putney, daughter of John Broster, clerk . . . . . . .
Married by Licence
Witnesses: Edwd. Yalden Cooper, G. M. . . . . . . . , M Florence Bury
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Sept. 15, at St. Paul's, South Hampstead, JOHN WILSON COOPER, to JESSIE, second daughter of the late JOHN BROSTER, Esq., of the Board of Green Cloth. No cards.
The Western Gazette (Somerset), Friday, 18 Sep 1874, p. 5
