Biographical notes:
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.
Ann was placed in quarantine on arrival & died 4 weeks later.
Reference documents:
1843 birth registration index record.
1843 baptism record.
1851 census return (John Cooper).
1859 passenger list London/Southampton to Port Adelaide
1859 death registration index record.