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This would be Annie's marriage:
Name: Annie Eliza Cole Year of Registration: 1904 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Leeds (1837-1929) County: Yorkshire - West Riding Volume: 9b Page: 508
-- Henry Green on same page. The cert would give his age and father's name, if you are wanting to track his origins down too.
You mention Holbeck / Leeds, so would this quite likely be him in 1901?
Name: Henry Green Age: 18 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883 Relation: Son Father's Name: James C Mother's Name: Agnes Gender: Male Where born: Leeds, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Holbeck Ecclesiastical parish: St Edward County/Island: Yorkshire Registration district: Holbeck Sub-registration district: Holbeck ED, institution, or vessel: 11 Household schedule number: 185
Household Members: Name Age Agnes Green 46 Henry Green 18 James C Green 43 William B Riley 17
This looks like Benjamin Cole with his parents in 1851 (he's also there in 1841):
Name: Benjaman Cole Age: 14 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 Relation: Son Father's Name: John Mother's Name: Mary Gender: Male Where born: Newbury, Berkshire, England Civil Parish: Newbury Town: Newbury County/Island: Berkshire Registration district: Newbury Sub-registration district: Thatcham ED, institution, or vessel: 1d Household schedule number: 168
Household Members: Name Age Benjaman Cole 14 John Cole 38 John Cole 9 Mary Cole 42 William Cole 13
(I always search by abbreviated names, as I did here, for ben* -- in case of misspellings, as there is in fact in this case.)
But yeah, eh? -- where'd he go from there??
Aha. A beginning, at the end? In 1891:
Name: Benjamin Cote Age: 54 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Hannah Gender: Male Where born: Newbury, Berkshire, England Civil Parish: Lambeth Ecclesiastical parish: South Lambeth St Ann County/Island: London Registration district: Lambeth Sub-registration district: Kennington First ED, institution, or vessel: 16
Household Members: Name Age Benjamin Cote 54 Hannah Cote 56
It says COLE, not Cote.
And that's the closest-looking person in the post-1851 censuses I can find!
I'm not related, just avoiding work ... and working on the genealogy karma hypothesis, that if I can find the origins of enough other people's mysterious gr-grfathers, maybe someday someone will find mine. ;)
Doing a danged lousy job of this one, though ...
Okay. In 1861, how about:
Name: Benjamin Cole Age: 24 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 Relation: Lodger Gender: Male Where born: Newbury, Berkshire, England Civil Parish: St Pancras Ecclesiastical parish: St Jude Town: London County/Island: Middlesex Registration district: Pancras Sub-registration district: Grays Inn Lane ED, institution, or vessel: 2 Household schedule number: 74
Household Members: Name Age Benjamin Cole 24 Elizabeth Wilson 8 John Wilson 24 John Wilson 3 Sarah Wilson 26
? He's a boot closer. Sound any good?
Uh oh -- 1871:
Name: Benjamin Cole Age: 32 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1839 Relation: Convict Gender: Male Where born: Newbury, Berkshire, England Civil Parish: Woking Town: Knaphill County/Island: Surrey Registration district: Guildford Sub-registration district: Woking ED, institution, or vessel: Invalid Convict Prison
And uh oh uh oh -- in 1881:
Name: Benjamin Cole Age: 44 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 Relation: Convict Gender: Male Where born: Bristol Civil Parish: Northwood County/Island: Hampshire Country: England Street address: "Convict Prison" Parkhurst Education: Occupation: Shoemaker Registration district: Isle Of Wight Sub-registration district: Cowes ED, institution, or vessel: Convict Prison
Shoemaker. Looks like he could be the same one as the one in 1861. Born in Bristol? The rest matches, and no Benjamin Cole born in Bristol appears in any other censuses.
So none of this makes a whole lot of sense -- unless, if this is your Benjamin, he did time in prisons interspersed with marrying and having children.
Those census records for what seems to be that single Benjamin Cole are really just the only Benjamin Cole born in Berkshire that there is.
By 1891, your Annie's mother could have formed a household with someone else (and that could be Benjamin in Lambeth having done the same).
In that case, the children could appear in 1891 with a different surname. But I'm danged if I can find anybody that looks like them.
There's this household in 1891:
Anne Cole 38 - widow, needlewoman Chas Fred K Cole 9 Harry Thos Cole 6 Thos B Slade 21 - boarder, tinman
with a Harry, but that's the closest I can see to any of the kids with a parent to match your Ann(e) and/or Benjamin.
Things to mull, anyhow!
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I have been trying to find ancestors of my nanna Annie Cockell (nee Green) born in Streethouse - Yorkshire, but appear to have come to a brick wall as far as Census records go.
With help from old family photos the little information I have is that her mother was called Annie Cole (1883 - 1969) of Newbury - Berkshire and she married a Henry Green (exact D.O.B. not known) of Holbeck - Leeds Annie Cole's parents were Ann(e) Howard and Benjamin Cole also of Berkshire and some of her brothers and sisters were called Elsie, Lena, Benjamin and Harry.
I would be grateful if anyone could reply if they know anything about this family.
Thanks
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