Birth: October-December 1844 Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK
Father: Joseph Coker (Coaker) 1811-1881
Mother: Martha Gadbury c1814-1892
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1864 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Wife: William Saunders 1844-1901
Death: After 1901
Emily Saunders [Croucher] 1864-1942
William Saunders 1868-1939
Ernest Saunders 1871-1889
Harry William Saunders 1873-a1895
Emma Saunders 1874-a1891
Sidney Corbett Saunders 1876-a1898
Ralph William Saunders 1877-1878
Christopher Charles Saunders 1878-a1881
Nielson James Saunders 1881-a1891
Ethel Mary Saunders [Nicholson] 1886-1965
Birth of Jane Coker in FreeBMD in October-December 1844 in Amersham (6 300).
Her brother was registered in January-March 1848 in Amersham.
Her sister was registered April-June 1850 in Amersham.
In the 1851 census as Jane Cokes (sic - in the index, Coker on the original) aged 6, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, and living with her parents (Joseph and Martha), four brothers (Alfred, Edward, George and Thomas), sister (Martha) and cousin (Robert Nardine) in Three Households Road, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Her sister was registered in October-December 1852 in Amersham.
In the 1861 census as Jane Coker aged 16, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (Joseph and Martha), three brothers (Alfred, George and Thomas)) and two sisters (Eliza and Martha) in Froy Hall, Seer Green, Buckinghamshire.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the banns of Jane Coker and William Saunders on 15 November 1863 at St George the Martyr Southwark. "The Year 1863 Page 139 No. 660 Banns of Marriage between William Saunders: Bachelor Jane Coker: Spinster: Both of this parish were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to say, On Sunday 1 Nov [...] On Sunday the 8 Nov [...] On Sunday the 16 Nov".
Marriage of Jane Coker and William Saunders in FreeBMD in January-March 1864 in Amersham (3A 422).
Her daughter was born in Chalfont and registered in April-June 1864 in Amersham.
Her son was registered in July-September 1868 in Salford.
In the 1871 census as Jane Saunders aged 26, born in Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire, a french polisher, and living with her husband (William), son (William) and daughter (Emma) at 27 Gravel Lane, Salford, Lancashire. Another family was living at the same address.
Her son was registered in July-September 1871 in Amersham.
Her son was born on 24 January 1873 in Ireland.Her daughter was born on 26 August 1874 in Belfast.
Her son was born on 20 April 1877 in Antrim, Ireland and was died on 10 March 1878 and was buried on 12 March 1878 at Belfast City Cemetery.
Her son was born on 13 December 1878 and registered in January-March 1879 in Belfast.
In the 1881 census as Jane Saunders aged 36, born in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, and living with her husband (William), five sons (Christopher, Ernest, Harry, and Willm) and daughter (Emma) in Firgrove Road, Millbrook, Hampshire.
Her son was registered in July-September 1881 in South Stoneham.
Her daughter was born on 28 Nov 1885 and registered in January-March 1886 in Southampton.
In the 1891 census as Jane Saunders aged 46, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, a grocer, and living with her husband (William), five sons (Christopher L, Harry W, Neilson I, Sidney, and Willm), daughter (Ethel M) and widowed mother (Martha Coker) at 28 Alfred Street, St Mary, Southampton, Hampshire.
Her mother died in January-March 1892 in Southampton.
Her husband died in January-March 1901 in Fareham.
In the 1901 census as Jane Saunders aged 56, born in Shelford (sic - in the index, Chalfont on the original) St Giles, Buckinghamshire, widowed, no stated employment, and living with her daughter (Ethel), a boarder (George Hibdge aged 20, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, single and a builders carter), and two lodgers (William Henry Chick aged 29, born in Southampton, Hampshire and a waterman, and Sidney George Cook aged 20, born in Luton, Bedfordshire, and a journeyman baker, both single) in two rooms, lodgers in a third at 21 Earls Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
I cannot locate any later entries.
There are one hundred and one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Jane Coker.
Jane Coker was the mother of Emily Saunders, wife of James Croucher, nephew of Moses Othen, husband of Ellen Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.
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