I am also looking for information about the Crocker/Coaker family, originally from Beesands in Devon. We have traced the family back through three generations of Ephaphras to Henry Crocker, born 3.4.1743 and Mary Thombs. My great-great-grandfather William Crocker, b. 4.5.1828 married Susan Cole. Was it this Susan who ran a pub in Beesands? Their son Alfred Coaker (so why the name change? maybe just a mistake on a handwritten form...) was born 3.3.1867. He married Mary Ann Jessop b. 1.6.1872, they lived in South Bank, near Middlesbrough, first on West Terrace, then on Pearl Street, later on Costa Street. He was a fisherman and wore a navy blue jumper, though was listed in 1921 as a labourer. They had several children, including my grandmother Florence Mahalia Coaker (married William Prosser). Her sisters were Sarah (who married a Jackson, many children all brought up in the South Bank/Middlesbrough area), May (don't know married name, son Alistair), and Mary (Jinks, no children). Great grandma Coaker made icecream in their back yard and it was either Alfred's brother or perhaps a son, who had lost a leg, and who went round the streets selling it from a cart. I knew grandma Coaker but unfortunately Alfred had died before I was born (1947). I am very curious about the name Epaphras and how it came into the family - chosen with a pin from the bible? I think it only appears there once.
