James Cooper

  Death Notes:

Buried in Lutwyche Cemetary, Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1861, Ringshall Suffolk [Charles Hall Stowmarket Road]. ²³

• Census, 1871, Beccles Suffolk [Ellough Road]. ⁶ Listed as born Ringhall, Suffolk, aged 17. Living with uncle John Cooper, master miller, born Ringshall, Suffolk, 1816, and wife Ann, born Benacre, Suffolk, 1819.

• Emigration, 1876, Queensland Australia. ⁵⁸

• Residence, 1910, Warra Queensland Australia. ⁵⁷

• Occupation: Miller's apprentice, 1871. ⁶

James married Frances Mary Gooderham, daughter of William Gooderham and Charlotte Fulcher, on 21 Oct 1874 in Monewden Suffolk [St. Mary's] ¹.^,5 (Frances Mary Gooderham was born in 1855 in Monewden Suffolk ²⁵ and died on 19 Jul 1908 in Warra Queensland Australia ⁵⁸.)

  Marriage Notes:

Ref: Plomesgate/Dec 1874/4a/1455
Witnesses: Oliver Thomas Gibbon, Harriet Gooderham, ceremony performed by Rev. A. Gooderham.

James next married Alice Maude Otto on 1 Feb 1910 in Toowoomba Queensland Australia [St James C Of E Church].⁵⁷ (Alice Maude Otto was born on 31 Dec 1870 in Dalby Queensland Australia ⁵⁷ and died on 3 Apr 1971 in Dalby Queensland Australia ⁵⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

Married St. James Church of England Church, bride was Alice Maude Moyse nee Otto, widow.
She was previously married to Josiah Sloman Moyse, 29/6/1901, and had a son, Josiah Frederick Moyse, born 20/4/1902, and in the Air Force in 1945. A daughter, Helen Edith Moyse, was born 2/4/1903, died 18/12/1903. Josiah Moyse Senior must have died away from Queensland and his death isn't on the Queensland Federation Index.
Witnesses to marriage of James and Alice: U. E. Hodson, M. Ismena Cockell (probably wife of vicar Teesdale W. Cockell).