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Benjamin Cooper
This is Benjamin Cooper, my Great Grandfather, born in the Forest of Dean in 1854. My genealogy research started from him. This research surrounds the Cooper family in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester.
Benjamin Cooper lived his early life in Cinderford with his parents, married Eva Shepherd and brought a family up in a small cottage in Greenbottom.
Ben was a miner (not sure if it was coal or iron), an avid Baptist and choirmaster who died early at the age of 42.
Some interesting facts were uncovered by this research including the discovery of two more children born to Benjamin Cooper / Eva Shepherd no one in the family had ever heard of and finding a Gypsy family the children played with during their life at home in Greenbottom.
Other surnames names researched are Woolford, Smith, Shepherd, Middlecote, Wakefield, Holyhead, Woodland, Weeden, Treadaway, Garrrington, Cooper, Butler, Head, Morgan, Peake, Chivers, Bevan, Bayliss, Bowen, Scrivens, Brain, Watkins, Beddis, Barnard,
William Woodland
Research into my family history has found one of my first cousins William Woodland as a Bomb Aimer in 12 Squadron R.A.F. On the 1st May 1943 his Lancaster was shot down over Holland (Winterswijk) on his way to Essen and all the crew were lost. This information from this link includes all the bomber command raid reports and Squadron ORB's together with other information that is in use during my research. This area is password protected as it contains a lot of information from the families of the crew and other researchers of the crash. If you would like access please email me with your area of research and I will send you a login. Click Here For Access to the Password Protected Area .
This section is a list of all the members of the family I have researched so far, more is being added as they are found and researched - a little quicker now I have retired.
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