Lookup for PR Faringdon please...

[LittleLondoner]

Hello,

Please can anyone put me out of my misery 
Benjamin Cooper is driving me crackers! He is one of many Benjamin Coopers, which is really unhelpful! But I believe this one was b. 1828 in Faringdon Berks.
I have found him in 1851 / 61 / 81 and 91 (well, he was missing maybe dead by 1891, but the rest of his family are there), but I cannot find him in 1841, so wondered if parish records could help.
What I need to know is who his parents were if possible, or a birth date or a burial or a marriage - anything really!
I know he was a chemist / drugist. In 1851 he was woring as a shopman in another chemist druggist in Faringdon Berks, but by 1861 he was listed as a chemist himself. He was married to a Charlotte b c 1832 and they had children Beatrice, Benjamin, Julia and Percival, if not more.
If you found any other Benjamin Coopers I would be really grateful for them too; I need to try and make some sense of them all!
Thanks in anticipation 
Littlelondoner

[jamajo]

Hi Sarah,

       Found this in 1841 in Great Faringdon
         HO107 / 18 / B 4 Foilio 13 / P 20

Benj Cooper age 50 occ shoemaker
Elizth Cooper age 55
Charles Cooper age 20
James Cooper age 20
Mary cooper age 20

 All b Berkshire

     Sue

[LittleLondoner]

Thank you Sue He appears to be related too, but I was looking for a Benjamin and Charlotte though...I don't suppoese there is a marriage for them is there? I think it would have been between 1851 and 1861 in Faringdon because of what it says in the censuses for those years. He was born in Faringdon, her in Deptford Kent.
Here's hoping...
Thank you so much 
Sarah

[Galium]

There doesn't seem to be a Faringdon Marriage for Benjamin and Charlotte.  Since she was born in Kent it's worth taking a look at Benjamin Cooper getting married in that county on FreeBMD - a possible is this one:

Marriages Jun quarter 1856 
BRANGWIN    Charlotte    Lewisham    1d   839   
COOPER    Benjamin         Lewisham    1d   839

and then checking with the IGI for a birth/christening:

CHARLOTTE BRANGWIN     
   Birth:     12 MAY 1831      
   Christening:     12 JUN 1831      Saint Paul, Deptford, London
         

     Father:     CASTLE BRANGWIN    
     Mother:     CHARLOTTE    


   

[LittleLondoner]

Brilliant!!!! That is the one - because I knew I had seen the name 'Brangwen' before and I've just found it; it's in some baptisms I jotted down and it's a Charlotte Brangwen born in 1858 to Benjamin (the chemist) and Charlotte and they also had a son called 'Benjamin CASTLE Arthur' so I think that is pretty conclusive! 
Thank you so much Galium
A very happy Sarah 

[LittleLondoner]

Also Galium, that's really helpful the way you explained what you did becasue I don't do that yet - will now though! 

[Eyesee]

No baptism in Faringdon for Benjamin that I can find.

From Faringdon PRs Transcripts
1858 Jan 31, COOPER, Charlotte Brangwen, d/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chem
1861 Nov 24, COOPER, Julia, d/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chemist
1864 Jan 31, COOPER, Beatrice Mary, d/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chemist
1866 Mar 25, COOPER, Benjamin Castle Arthur, s/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chemist
1868 Oct 26, COOPER, Joseph, s/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chymist (priv)
1870 Apr 24, COOPER, Harry Percival, s/o Benjamin & Charlotte, chemist

Burial
1868 Nov 2, COOPER, Joseph, 2 wks
1868 Nov 14, COOPER, Benjamin, aged 25 (There was a Benjamin and Henriette having children there as well, probably that Benj.)
1870 Oct 27, COOPER, Henrietta, aged 27

No other burials or marriages in Faringdon.

Am guessing Benjamin died Sep qtr 1884, Kingston, aged 56. This is near where Charlotte was in 1891.

Ian C

[Eyesee]

Charlotte d/o Benjamin and Charlotte is in Worcester with her aunt and uncle Henry and Mary FORBES in 1881. Mary was born Deptford and was Mary BRANGWIN, sister of Charlotte who married Benjamin COOPER - RG11/2913/23/20

Ian C

[LittleLondoner]

Wow!!! That's great - thank you Ian   
I STILL haven't found out who Benjamins parents are, so that's my next task I think cos until then I can't add him into my tree! I'm sure he is related, it is just picking through the dates and working out exactly which one he was - there were way too many of them 

Thanks again 
Sarah