Thomas COOPER:
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Born Friday 26 July 1901
Died Friday 12 August 1983
see Cooper tree for details
Thomas Cooper 1926
Constance Martha ELLIOT:
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Alias Constance Martha COOPER
Born Sunday 17 August 1902, 119 King Street Blackburn
Died Friday 21 August 1981, Queens Park Hospital Blackburn
Buried Blackburn Cemetery
Constance was born at 119 King Street Blackburn where her father had a saddlery business. She was the youngest of three children. Later she lived at 73 Havelock Street and 21 Stansfeld Street.
Her eldest brother was killed on the Western Front and her next eldest brother never recovered from shellshock. Her father also died during the War from tuberculosis.
In 1918 she took evening classes at Blakey Moor Domestic School, Blackburn qualifying in millinery in April 1920 although she was working as a winder at time of her marriage. In 1926 she married a weaver called Tom Cooper. Her mother disapproved.
Tom and Connie bought a house at 36 Kenyon Street and it was there that her two children Connie and Reg (named after her brother) were born. Financial difficulties in the 1930's meant the family had to leave the house at Kenyon Street and they lived in a succession of rented houses until buying 21 Cromwell Terrace, Blackburn where she lived for the rest of her life.
Constance was fond of music and sang in a choir when she was younger.
In the 1970's she said she didn't want her eldest grandson learning German as a language at school. Perhaps it was understandable.
Thomas Elliot's grave in Blackburn Cemetery, right hand stone reads "also Connie wife of Tom Cooper and daughter of above who died 21st August 1981 aged 79 years"
Constance Elliot 1915
Constance Elliot 1920
Constance Elliot 1926
Constance Cooper nee Elliot 1960
grave of Constance Elliot/Cooper r/h curbstone Blackburn Cemetery
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