Charles Hall, Ringshall, Suffolk, home of Jonathan Cooper
and family from before 1851 to around 1918
The Family of my Great-Grandmother Esther Cooper
Charles Hall, Ringshall, Suffolk, home of Jonathan Cooper and family from before 1851 to around 1918
The purpose of this small web-site is to share the family pictures I've inherited myself or received from other members of my extended family. I still need information on many of the people pictured. For my complete family tree, see here.
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Revised: 18 December, 2023
Cooper Photographs
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My great-grandmother Esther Cooper (1856-1941) was the daughter of Jonathan Cooper (1809-93) and Elizabeth Rouse (1822-63). In 1851 both the Cooper and Rouse families lived at Charles Hall, Ringshall, Suffolk, and Jonathan and Elizabeth married the same year. Their children were: Sarah (1852-1924), married John Carr; James (1855-1945), married Frances Mary Gooderham (1854-1908) and Alice Maud Otto (1870-1971); Esther (1856-1941), married William Hatten from Great Finborough, Suffolk; Jonathan Charles (1858-87), married Louisa Friston; Priscilla (1859-1952), married Isaac Carr, brother of John Carr; John (1862-1930), married Eleanor Agnes Brook (1861-1952). John Cooper, who died in 1930, and his wife Eleanor were the final Cooper residents at Charles Hall. Eleanor Cooper died in Ipswich in 1952. The Gooderham family to which Frances belonged (she was the daughter of William Gooderham and Charlotte Fulcher) were the owners of Snape Maltings, now the site of the world-famous Aldeburgh Music Festival originated by Benjamin Britten. Jonathan Cooper was the son of James Cooper and Priscilla Clarke, and in 1833 his elder sister Priscilla (1800-1871) married Meshach Chaplin (1788-1849), the younger brother of Shadrach Chaplin (1786-1858), who was the great-grandfather of one Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977), more commonly known as "Charlie"! They had no children. Meshach Chaplin died in 1849 and in 1851 Priscilla was a widow and a farmer of 40 acres at Great Finborough. She married Daniel Barham in Great Finborough on 10 Oct 1851, dying in 1871. Charles Hall is today owned by a family called Chaplin. |
The family of Sarah Cooper and John Carr
Sadly I have no photos of Sarah Cooper and her husband John Carr except the group photo below right with her sister Priscilla and brother-in-law Isaac Carr, etc. Sarah married John in 1880 and had three sons - Arthur James Cooper Carr (1880-1960), Harold Francis Carr (1886-1963) and Frederick Ernest Carr (1888-1962). Sarah was a widow in 1911 living in St. Pancras. London, and died in Wandsworth in 1924. Arthur joined the Royal Navy and was serving aboard HMS Galatea in 1901. I have no evidence he ever married. Harold married Edith Whitehorn Westley and they had three children - Dorothy (1910), John (1911) and Norman (1912). In 1939 Harold and Edith were living in Tonbridge, Kent, both listed as mantle and gown manufacturing directors. Their descendants live in the London area today. Frederick was a foreign correspondent in 1911 and a translator in 1939. He was living in Lambeth, London, in 1939 and listed as married but his wife was not resident and I have no evidence of any children.
The family of James Cooper and Frances Mary Gooderham/Alice Maud Otto
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The carte de visite of Jonathan Cooper above has an interesting story - the copy shown is from Roz King in Queensland, Australia. It's identified as James Cooper's father Jonathan. I have for a long time had another copy of the same photo from Sheila Waterfield which had been wrongly identified as George Hatten (1802-78), father of William who married Esther Cooper. The photo was taken by W. A. Smith of Ipswich - Walter Azemberg Smith ran a photographic studio in Brook Street, Ipswich, from 1867 to 1883, so I estimate the photo dates from around 1870. It can't be George because the Australian Coopers have no links to the Hattens! Ros' husband Trevor King is the grandson of James Cooper (1855-1945), elder brother of Esther, who emigrated to Australia in 1876, and his second wife Alice Maud Otto. Frances Mary Cooper née Gooderham was born in Monewden, Suffolk, in 1854, and died in Queensland in 1908 - James then married Alice Maud Moyse née Otto, widow of Josiah Sloman Moyse, in 1910. James had five children with Frances: Harriet Elizabeth Esther (1878-78), Edwin Jonathan (1880-1911), Francis James (1882-1959), Dora Eleanor (1895-96) and Eleanor Grace (1897-1957. He had three further children with Alice Maud: Dorothy Lucy (1911-98), Edna Anne (1912-12) and Noel William (1914-82). The photograph of "Frank James Cooper aged 20" on the left came from Brian Gudgeon and was taken at the American Photo Coy. Queen St., Petrie's Bight, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Brian and his wife Maureen (who is the granddaughter of Priscilla Cooper and Isaac Carr, see below) did not then know who Frank Cooper was, but he was identified by Roz King as the son of James Cooper and Frances Mary Gooderham, born in Brisbane in 1882, so the photo is from 1902. |
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 Francis James Cooper (1882-1959), son of James Cooper and Frances Mary Gooderham, with wife Margaret Elizabeth and children Edwin and Margaret, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1932 |
 James Cooper (1854-1945) and second wife Alice Maud Otto (1870-1971), Warra, Queensland, Australia, 1930s Alice was the daughter of Frederick Julius Otto and Emma Fanny George, and had been previously married to Josiah Sloman Moyse, with a son Josiah Frederick Moyse (born 1902) and a daughter Helen Edith Moyse (1903-03) |
 Eleanor Grace Dempsey née Cooper (born 1897), daughter of James Cooper and Frances Mary Gooderham, Queensland, Australia |
 Dorothy Lucy King née Cooper (1911-98) and Noel William Cooper (1914-82), children of James Cooper and second wife Alice Maud Otto, with Dorothy's grandson Michael William King (born 1974), Queensland, Australia |
The family of Esther Cooper and William Hatten
This is my family and full details are listed here.
The family of Jonathan Charles Cooper and Louisa Friston
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William Spink Friston (1815-1904) married Sarah Rouse (1820-1904), elder sister of Elizabeth Rouse. Their daughter Louisa Friston (1860-1961) married her first cousin Jonathan Charles Cooper (1858-87). After Jonathan died at the early age of 29, Louisa moved to Charles Hall to live with her brother-in-law John and his wife Eleanor, where she was living in 1891 with her son Archie (who died in 1899), and in 1901 on her own. She married widower Harry William Thorpe in 1903. Beverly Hitchcock is the granddaughter of their son Walter Thorpe (1908-98). |
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 Louisa Cooper née Friston (1860-1961), daughter of William Spink Friston and Sarah Rouse, who married her first cousin Jonathan Charles Cooper in 1882 and then Harry William Thorpe in 1903 |
 William Jonathan Cooper (1883-1979), surviving son of Jonathan Charles Cooper and Louisa Friston, in Vancouver BC Canada around 1915 with his first wife Mabel Mildred Wetmon and son Cyril, born 1911. They married in Vancouver BC in 1908. Sadly Mabel, who was born in Ipswich in 1884, died in 1917 after the birth of their second son Eric and his twin sister who died |
 Wedding in the USA of William Jonathan Cooper, around 1950 Will was married three times - to Mabel, Agnes and Isabelle, this is his third wedding |
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 William Jonathan Cooper (1883-1979), son of Jonathan Charles Cooper and Louisa Friston, Electrical Engineer, Portland, OR, USA, 1930s (he, his wife Agnes, with sons Cyril and Eric were at this address in the 1930 US Census) |
 Archibald Friston Cooper (1885-99), son of Jonathan Charles Cooper and Louisa Friston Archie died at 14 of a heart condition, his sister Eva died at 18 months after an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccination |
 Harry William Thorpe with Louisa Thorpe née Friston and their son Walter (1908-98), Green Farm, Haughley, Suffolk, 1914 |
 Stanley Walter Thorpe (son of Harry William Thorpe and his first wife Edith Durrant) with his half-brother Walter, Green Farm, Haughley, Suffolk, 1914. Stanley died in France in May 1917, aged 25 |
 Unidentified couple in a photo that belonged to Helen Catchpole's grandmother - the groom is a Major in the Royal Marines and the photo was taken in the mid/late 1930s (thanks to "Family Tree Magazine" and Phil May for information) |
Helen Catchpole is the great-granddaughter of Joseph Rouse Durrant (son of Thomas Cooper Durrant), whose sister Edith Durrant was the first wife of Harry William Thorpe, and mother of Stanley Walter Thorpe, see above. The Coopers, Rouses and Durrants were all closely related - for example my great-grandmother Esther Cooper was the daughter of Jonathan Cooper and Elizabeth Rouse, while Elizabeth Rouse and her sister Sarah Rouse, both mentioned above, were daughters of Joseph Rouse and Sarah Durrant. The names Joseph Rouse Durrant and Thomas Cooper Durrant emphasise these links!
The family of Priscilla Cooper and Isaac Carr
 Hannah Carr née Cutting (1829-1914), mother of John and Isaac Carr who married Sarah and Priscilla Cooper, 1889 |
In 1881 Priscilla Cooper (1859-1952), was
living with my great-grandparents William Hatten and Esther Cooper (her
elder sister) at their
farm in Haughley, Suffolk. In 1883 she married Isaac Carr (1858-1935), son
of James Carr and Hannah Cutting, a solicitor's clerk, and set up home in
Walthamstow, then Essex, now London E17. Priscilla and Isaac had five daughters and one son, all born in Walthamstow: Winifred May (1884-1975), Reginald Hugh (1885-1968), Nora Frances (1887-1980), Mildred Christine (1890-1959), Evelyn Maud (1895-1985) and Ethel Margaret (1900-2002). |
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 Isaac Carr (1858-1935), husband of Priscilla Cooper |
 Priscilla Carr née Cooper (1859-1952) |
 Norah Frances Carr (1887-1981), daughter of Isaac Carr and Priscilla Cooper, married Benjamin Thomas Roach, no children |
 Four of the five Carr sisters, daughters of Isaac Carr and Priscilla Cooper: Winifred May (1884-1975), Norah Frances (1887-1981), Mildred Christine (born 1890) and Evelyn Maud (born 1895) |
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 Wedding of Winifred May Carr to Frederick Douglas Carrington, Walthamstow, Essex, 31 Jul 1909 |
 Wedding of Flying Officer William James Bray, Royal Air Force, to Evelyn Maud Carr, Walthamstow, Essex, 24 Jun 1924 |
 From left: Winifred May Carrington née Carr, Joyce Gwendolyn Carrington (1919-2003), Gladys Lilian Carr née Hick (wife of Reginald Hugh Carr), Frederick Douglas Carrington (1883-1960) Joyce Carrington, who married Edward Ronald FitzSimmons, was the mother of Maureen, Margaret and Patricia. This picture came from Roz King in Queensland, Australia - Maureen Gudgeon and Patricia FitzSimmons, whose mother and grandparents it shows, had never seen it before 2005! |
 Ethel Margaret Carr "Madge" (1900-2002), youngest daughter of Isaac Carr and Priscilla Cooper - she married David Spencer and Eric Henry Redhouse. Children: Peter Spencer (born 1929) and Colin John Redhouse (born 1933) |
 Eric Henry Redhouse (1903-83) and Madge Spencer née Carr at their wedding, West Ham, London, 13 Aug 1932 |
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Reginald Hugh Carr (1885-1968)
 Wedding of Lt. Reginald Hugh Carr, Royal Flying Corps (1885-1968), to Gladys Lilian Hick (1896-1974), Walthamstow, Essex, 11 Jul 1915. Reg's parents Priscilla and Isaac Carr on right |
Reginald Hugh Carr (1885-1968) was an early aviation enthusiast, and worked as an aero engineer and pilot at Hendon, Middlesex, from 1908. He won the Michelin Cup in 1913 and came second in the Aero Derby, also in 1913. Reg joined the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1 and was a noted air ace, winning the AFC (Air Force Cross), the DSM (Distinguished Service Medal) and ending the war as a Major. |
 Wedding of Lt. Reginald Hugh Carr, Royal Flying Corps, to Gladys Lilian Hick, Walthamstow, Essex, 11 Jul 1915 |
 Wedding of Lt. Reginald Hugh Carr, Royal Flying Corps, to Gladys Lilian Hick, Walthamstow, Essex, 11 Jul 1915 |
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After World War 1 Reg stayed in the newly formed RAF until 1924, and then worked as a test pilot for the Grahame-White Aviation Company at Hendon Aerodrome, Middlesex. He married Gladys Lilian Hick (1896-1974), daughter of Ambrose Canner Hick and Alice Jane Ridout, in Walthamstow on 11 Jul 1915. They had two children: Priscilla Joan (1917-98), who married Leonard G Ash in 1946, and Dennis John (1919-96), who married Marjorie Beryl Masford in 1947.
Norah Carr's husband Benjamin Thomas Roach (born 1886) was the son of Edward William Roach (1861-1935) and Jane Catherine Berridge (1861-1932). He is front right in Reg Carr's group wedding picture above, sat below Isaac Carr and Gladys Hick. Norah and Ben married in 1912 and had no children.
For Brian Gudgeon's family tree and photo album including many remarkable pictures of Reg from the early days of aviation, see http://bar29mouth.tribalpages.com/?userid=bar29mouth&x=13&y=8 (password "unclereggie").
John Cooper and Eleanor Agnes Brook
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 The picture on the left colourised by Brian Gudgeon |
 Priscilla Carr née Cooper with Eleanor Agnes Cooper née Brook, Catalpa House, Needham Market, Suffolk |
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 Eleanor Agnes Cooper née Brook, 1920s |
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The youngest son of Jonathan Cooper and Elizabeth Rouse was John Cooper (1862-1930). He married Eleanor Agnes Brook (1861-1952), daughter of Henry Hayward Brook and Matilda Sutton Miller, in 1888. They had no children. John took over Charles Hall, Ringshall, from his father who died in 1893, and lived there until some time between 1911 and 1921. I always assumed that Charles Hall was owned by the Cooper family but "Chronicles of Ringshall" by Maureen Wills says it was owned by the Rowley family of Hadleigh from 1811 until 1918, when it was bought by Herbert Gooding. It's therefore possible that John and Eleanor left Charles Hall in 1918 after the change of ownership.
In 1921 John had retired as a farmer and he and Eleanor were living at Catalpa House, Needham Market, Suffolk. John Cooper died in 1930 and Eleanor Cooper died in Ipswich in 1952. I have a picture of a woman now known to be Eleanor and an unidentified woman with my mother and grandmother, taken around 1930 (Eleanor Brook was an only child so the woman is not her sister). Brian thinks this was taken in the garden of Catalpa House.
John's sister-in-law Louisa Cooper née Friston, widow of his brother Jonathan Charles Cooper (see above), was living with John and Eleanor at Charles Hall in 1891 and 1901. Louisa was also John's first cousin, being the daughter of his aunt Sarah Friston née Rouse, sister of his mother Elizabeth Cooper née Rouse.
[Up] [Family of William Green Hatten and Sarah Anne Turner Day] [Family of George Nelson Hatten and Harriet Griffin Blomfield] [Family of Robert Charles Hatten and Mary Nunn Bishop] [Family of Rev. Charles William Hatten and Rozalie Jane Palmer de Verinne] [Cooper Family]
For my complete family tree, see here.
If you have any more information or pictures to share please contact me: alanfraser87@gmail.com. You will be credited for every picture included.
