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Hi DOB7
Do you know I have got and looked at the 1891 Census several times and not noticed that Edith is surnamed Cocks. As GRO is going up I had better make the most of the low rate and see if I can glean some info from the birth certs of Edith and the other 2 Coomber's you found.
Thankyou for your help.
Antiquesam

Thanks Kit
I took your advice and sent for a birth cert. for Elizabeth. The only birth I could trace.
The marriages were my g/mother Minnie who was 4 on the 1901 census and 21 when she married in 1917 in Gateshead, but was 39 when she married again in 1943 (what price vanity). She seems to have been known as Minnie, Minnie Ena, and the burial ground deeds show her as Minemina. I also have her sailing to India in 1928 and 1934 as Minnie
Sam

Thanks Stanmapstone. Now I can try to find a birth

Thank's again Slightlyfoxed. It is hard to come forward, especially as I have had no contact with any other than my mother and father and very little said about anyone else. I have Jethro's Naval Record and cannot find any record for his sons.

TallAl  I am grateful for the link to J.W.C. death and have ordered the cert. By the 1911 census Annie was married and living in Cornwall with 2 children. Jethro had retired to being a lodger in Sussex where he died in the Poor House. James and Edith were living with their grandmother and were single. Edith was certainly single in 1912 because she had my father out of wedlock (presumably why no spoke of family history).

I am trying to find descendants of Jethro Coomber, who joined the RN from Sussex and married Edith Cocks. His family were living in Devonport. the children were James (c1884), Annie (c1886), Charles (c1889)and Edith (1892). any help would be appreciated