Birth: 1 February 1911 Reigate, Surrey, UK
Father: Robert George Henry Arnold 1873-1958
Mother: Rose Spratley 1870-1954
Marriage: 16 September 1933 Christ Church, Brockham Green, Surrey, UK
Husband: Percy Cooper 1900-1967
Death: 1 January 1990 36 Lyons Court, Dorking, Surrey, UK
Dennis A Cooper 1935-a1939
Colin W A Cooper 1945
Eric P A Cooper 1947-a1984
Birth of Ellen M Arnold in FreeBMD in January-March 1911 in Reigate (2a 201).
In the 1911 census as Ellen Arnold aged 0 in the index, 4 months on the original (same as her sister Rosa), born in Walworth, Surrey, and living with her parents (Robert George Henry and Rose), brother (George), eight sisters (Dorothy, Ethel, Horrie, Ida, Ivy, Kate, Rosa, and Ruth), two servants (Phoebe Forrester aged 69, born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, widowed and a char woman, and Charles Gasson aged 23, born in Sydenham, Kent, single and a grocer's assistant) at 87 Rodney Road, Walworth S E, Newington St Mary, London.
Marriage of Ellen M Arnold and Percy Cooper in FreeBMD in July-September 1933 in Reigate (2a 683).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Ellen May Arnold aged 22, father Harry Arnold, and Percy Cooper on 16 September 1933 at Brockham Green, Christ Church. "Page 215 [...] 1933 Marriage solemnized in the Parish of Brockham Green in the County of Surrey. [No.] 430 September 16th 1933 Percy Cooper [aged] 33 [a] Bachelor [and] Railway Servant [of] Brockham Pits [father] George Cooper (deceased) [a] Lime Burner, [and] Ellen May Arnold [aged] 22 [a] Spinster [and] Housemaid [of] 9 Brockham Pits [father] Harry Arnold [a] Labourer. Married in the Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us George Edward Cooper".
Her son was born in SE Surrey in 1935.
There are six entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Ellen May Cooper address 10 Limeworks Cottages, Brockham Pits, Chalkpit Lane, Brockham, Reigate from 1934 to 1939, other occupants Percy Cooper (husband?), Frederick Charles Cooper (brother-in-law?), Sarah Ann Cooper (sister-in-law) and Emma Cooper (mother-in-law?).
In the 1939 Register as Ellen M Cooper born 1 February 1900, married, and living with Emma Cooper (widowed mother-in-law?), Percy Cooper (husband?), Edward Cooper (husband's nephew?) and one other (son?) at Rose Cottages, Brockham Pits, Dorking, Surrey.
Her two sons were born in SE Surrey in 1945 and 1947.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Ellen M Cooper address Rose Cottage, Brockham Pits, Chalkpit Lane, Brockham, Reigate changing to Dorking in 1949, from 1945 to 1961 other occupants Percy Cooper (husband?), Emma Cooper (mother-in-law?) to 1948, and Dennis A Cooper (son?) in 1958 and 1959.
Her husband died on 2 December 1967 at Rose Cottage, Brockham Pits. Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ellen May Cooper, born 2 (sic) February 1911, in January 1990 in Surrey Mid Eastern (17 5).Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Ellen May Cooper died 1 January 1990 in Dorking Sy, probate 21 March 1990 in Brighton. "Cooper, Ellen May of 36 Lyons Ct Dorking Sy died 1 January 1990 Administration Brighton 21 March Not exceeding £10000".
There are sixteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ellen May Arnold.
Note Reigate became part of Surrey SE in 1934.
Ellen May Arnold was the mother of Eric P A Cooper, husband of Teresa J Barton, third cousin once removed of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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