Name: Mary COOPER
Also known as:
Born: 27 Nov 1848 At: Helions Bumpstead, ESS, ENG Sex: F
Christened: 4 Mar 1849 At: Helions Bumpstead, ESS, ENG
Died: 24 Apr 1930 At: Semaphore, SA, AUS Cause:
Burial /cremation: At:
Parents: Father: John COOPER Mother: Harriet TILBROOK
Spouse/partner: Henry DOWNER Born: 15 Nov 1843 Died: 9 May 1912
Married: 15 Aug 1871 At: Res of Mr Downer, North Adelaide, SA, AUS
Children: Rhoda Mary DOWNER,  Louisa Emily DOWNER,  Gertrude Mabel DOWNER,  Elsie May DOWNER,  Amy Elizabeth DOWNER,  Henry Ernest DOWNER,  Edith Alice DOWNER,  Nellie Maud DOWNER,  Arthur Herbert DOWNER,  Myrtle Blanche DOWNER,  Percy John DOWNER

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Addresses: Cottages at Boblow Farm, Pale Green, Helions Bumpstead, ESS (1851).
Migrated from ENG to SA, AUS in the barque Clara (passenger list 59/1) ex London 20 Sep 1858 & Southampton 1 Oct 1858, arriving Port Adelaide on 20 Jan 1859, 113 days after leaving Southampton. (see The Register of 21 Jan 1859 for a description of the journey.) The passenger list names John (40 labourer), Harriet (née Tilbrook 390, Charles (17 agricultural labourer), Anne (15, servant), Sarah (11), Mary (9), Betsy/Elizabeth (8), Samuel (4). The South Australian Register for 21 Jan 1859 lists John, Harriet, Sarah, Mary, Betsey, Samuel, Charles & Ann.Was a servant with a well off family on a farm in Wistow & moved with the family to North Adelaide where she met her future husband. After her husband's death, Mary sold the Lyrup property to her son Henry Ernest
Reference documents:
1848  birth certificate transcript.
1848 birth registration index record.
1849 baptism record.
1851 census return (John Cooper).
1859 passenger list London/Southampton to Port Adelaide
1871 marriage registration index record.
ca 1900 - photograph with Henry.
1930 death registration index record.