Benjamin Cooper born October ?? 1882 / 83 in Halstead, Essex, England. died 
married kids??? I have nothing of him after 1911 census where he was living with his parents in Ridgewell.
I found a bunch of people with the same name and can't figure out which is the right person.
Benjamin COOPER born 2 Apr 1882 – he never married.
In the late 1930s, he is an inmate (‘incapacitated) in a hospital in Saffron Waldon, Essex.
The Benjamin Cooper born 2/4/1882 is
not the Benjamin in question here. 'Your' Benjamin Cooper's birth was reg'd in the Dec.qtr.1882 Halstead so birth would have been in the Sept.-Dec.part of the year.
In 1921 free index search there is a Benjamin Cooper shown born 1882 Essex (living in Haverhill, Suffolk) and in that year there was only the one Benjamin Cooper born in Essex.
Further investigation shows he was born 9/10/1882 (which fits with Dec.qtr.birth registration) - in 1911 he was an Engine Driver, an occupation he seemed to continue.
He married an Ellen Skilton in the Mar.qtr.1913 Risbridge, Suffolk (which covered Haverhill) and they appear to have had just one son - William born 27/7/1914 Haverhill.
Benjamin Cooper of 30 Eden Road, Haverhill died 19/10/1964 in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Administration of his estate was to William Cooper (his son). (death registration in Dec.1964 Cambridge).
As to Charles - he too was an Engine Driver. Cannot trace after 1911. Doesn't show in 1921 index search, nor 1939 register. Seems to vanish between 1911-1921 - perhaps a casualty of WW1.
Annette
