Birth: 30 June 1913 Mouille Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Father: Harry Claude Lee Cooper 1878-a1952
Mother: Ermyntrude Maude ? c1889-a1939
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Robert Syme Denholm Armour 1900-1981
Death: 13 May 2006 Petersfield, Hampshire, UK
Jennifer Ann Denholm Armour [Fox] 1935-2013
Ian R D Armour 1938
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Esley Lee Cooper aged 19, a secretary arrived on 15 May 1933 at Southampton on the Winchester Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd from Durban, South Africa accompanied by Ermyntrude Maude Cooper (mother?) and Riva Lee Cooper (sister?), address 66 Gerista? Road, Woolwich SE18 and another for Esley L Armour aged 21 arrived 18 February 1935 in London on the City of Exeter, Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company Ltd from London (sic - in the index, Cape Town on the original), 1st Class address c/o Barclay's Bank, D C & A, St Martins Lane, London intended residence in England.
There are two entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Esley Lee Armour address 23 Lancaster Close, Lancaster Gate, Paddington in 1938 and 1939, other occupant Robert Syme Armour, (husband?).
Her father Harry Claude Cooper aged 58, an engineer and mother Ermyntrude Cooper aged 49, both residents of South Africa, arrived 31 March 1939 from Durban on Athlone Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Esley L Armour born 13 June 1913, married, and living with Robert S D Armour (husband?), Jenifer A W Armour (daughter?), Matrgot J Evans and one other (son?) at Appledown, unknown road, Chichester, Sussex.
Fifteen entries in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for Esley L Armour addresses Appledown, Hambrook, Chichester from 1945 to 1950, other occupant Robert L D Armour (husband?) in 1950, and the Fardens, Compton, Chichester from 1951 to 1962, other occupants Robert S D Armour (husband?), and Ian R D Armour (son?) from 1958.
Her father Harry C Cooper aged 70, retired, living in Basutoland, arrived 29 February 1952 at Southampton from Durban on Capetown Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd, address c/o Capt Armour, Compton near Chichester, Sussex.
Entry in 192.com for Esley L Armour in the Electoral Roll 2002 living in Chichester, West Sussex PO18.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Esley Lee Armour, born 30 June 1913, in May 2006 in Petersfield (45C 496/1 101).
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Esley Armour, child Jenny, died 16 May 2006 aged 92, published in Daily Telegraph, London on 20 May 2006.
Three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Esley Lee Cooper adding her birth in Mouille Point, Western Cape, South Africa and her death on 13 May 2006.
Esley Lee Cooper was the wife of Robert Syme Denholm Armour, husband of Phyllis Eileen Katherine Morrison, wife of Erwin Henry Martin Slade (Schlaich), husband of Lucienne Marie G Lagasse de Locht, wife of Anthony Peter Crane, husband of Violet Anne Christine Elphinstone Fenton, wife of Philip Dudley Cross, my half first cousin.
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