Mary Ann Tonks, Maria Brooks & Elizabeth Cooper

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Joseph Cooper died 1867 reg Stourbridge March quarter  age 77  Vol 06C page 114

You could get a copy of the death certificate to see who reported it and the relationship.

1871 Census
Mary Ann Tonks 50
Joseph Cooper 71  Lodger
Elizabeth Cooper  74 Lodger's wife.

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1786 -16 April        - Jonas Wood married Mary Phibbs               - Kingswinford
1787 -18 March      - Elizabeth Wood baptised                           - Brierley Hill
1794 -29 January   - Jonas Wood    burial                                 - Brierley Hill
1797 - 4 June         - John Tonks married Mary Wood (W).         - Bushbury
1802 - 22 Sept.      - Martha Tonks baptised     - John & Mary.    - Brierley Hill
1805 - 11 Sept       - Richard Tonks baptised.   - John & Mary.     - Brierley Hill
1808 - 4 April.        - Maria Tonks baptised.      - John & Mary.     - Brierley Hill
1812 - 1 April.        - Mary Ann Tonks baptised - John & Mary.      - Brierley Hill
1823 - 13 July.       - Joseph Cooper married Elizabeth Wood.      - Dudley
1834 - 23 May.       - John Tonks     burial      age 58                   - Kingswinford
1844 - 12 May.       - Mary Tonks    burial.      age 74                   - Kingswinford

If the above holds water , then Elizabeth, Maria and Mary Ann have the same mother.... Half sisters.
What do you think?

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Martha, Mary Ann and Maria have the same mother.

Elizabeth it's possible and looks plausable.

If Mary Phibbs was 21 when she married Jonas Wood then she would have been 47/48 when she had
Mary Ann in 1812.

Mary Tonks death date 1844 age 74 gives a dob of circa 1770 in which case she was only 16/17 when she married Jonas Wood. 

It would match her age on the 1841 census.

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1861 census Mary Ann Tonks (50) is living in Brockmoor with Joseph (71) and Elizabeth Cooper (74)

In the very next house is Thomas Wood (49), his wife Emma (49) and family, Cornelious Wood, Esaw Wood, and Susannah Tonks (the daughter of Emma)

Emma's first husband, John Tonks died 7 Jan 1857 from TB (age 51) and Emma married Thomas Wood later that same year  28 December. Both John and Thomas were Boatmen.

Is it just a coincidence that Emma Wood (Tonks) is living next door to Mary Ann Tonks and the Coopers?
Or is it possible that they were related? John Tonks married Emma Beddard Dec 1828 at Dudley.
John and Emma are my direct descendants but I have not been able to locate a birth/bpt for John.