Elizabeth (Petworth) Cooper (abt. 1834 - 1897)

Born about 1834 in Bramshott, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Smith — married 22 Jan 1855 in St Peters, Cook's River, New South Wales, Australia

Wife of William Henry Cooper — married 25 Dec 1858 in Hobart - O'Brians Bridge, Tasmania, Australia

Descendants

Died 15 Jun 1897 at about age 63 in Moonah, Tasmania, Australia

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Biography

Elizabeth Petworth was born to Sophia Petworth around 1834 in Bramshott, Hampshire England.[1]

She sailed to Australia as an assisted immigrant aboard the Anglo Saxon^[1], arriving Oct 1854, where her calling was listed as a general servant and where she listed her father as James Petworth, her mother's husband.^[2]

In 1855 Elizabeth Petwork married Robert Smith in Cook's River, New South Wales, Australia.^[3]

In 1856, possibly still married to Robert Smith, Elizabeth married James Franks in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.^[4]

On 7 July 1856 and again on 9 July 1856 her husband James Franks advertised in the Sydney Morning Herald that Elizabeth had abandoned him and that he was not responsible for whatever debts she might incur from that point forward.^[5]

Two years and five months later, on Christmas Day 1858, now going by the name Elizabeth Edwards, she married William Henry Cooper at O'Brien's Bridge, Tasmania, Australia^[6], a presumably bigamous marriage.

In 1861 friends in England paid for a listing in the Freeman's Journal in Sydney enquiring about the missing Elizabeth Petworth.^[7] Later that month they posted the same search in Sydney's Empire.^[8]

In 1861 the Government Immigration Office ran an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald asking for assistance in locating Elizabeth Petworth.^[9]

On the birth record of her fourth child, Charles Henry Cooper, in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1865, Elizabeth listed her maiden name as Petworth. ^[10] This same record also shows her to be illiterate, signing her name with an 'X'.^[11]

Elizabeth died on 15 June 1897 in Moonah, Tasmania, Australia.^[12] and was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Newtown.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Anglo_Saxon%2C_Immigrant_Voyage_to_New_South_Wales_1854#:~:text=The%20Anglo%20Saxon%20departed%20Southampton,with%20331%20immigrants%20as%20passengers.
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/305746:1204?tid=&pid=&queryId=1876cadf66c5bd7f61656ba503694821&_phsrc=KrN1399&_phstart=successSource
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61293/images/45579_540535-00030?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=1876cadf66c5bd7f61656ba503694821&usePUB=true&_phsrc=KrN1410&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.6305714.1898215463.1644016236-213709892.1609008841&pId=900000030
4. ↑ https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=ANZ%2FBMD%2FNSW%2FM%2F0005020057
5. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12984578?searchTerm=%22elizabeth%20franks%22
6. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12984578?searchTerm=%22elizabeth%20franks%22
7. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115762473?searchTerm=elizabeth%20petworth.
8. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60488050?searchTerm=elizabeth%20petworth
9. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13065489?searchTerm=%22elizabeth%20petworth%22
10. ↑ https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=ANZ%2FBMD%2FTAS%2F007368107%2F00546&parentid=ANZ%2FAU%2FTAS%2FBMD%2FB%2F0000038476
11. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9CH-W9KK?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ27M-CWB5&action=view
12. ↑ http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=anz%2fbmd%2ftas%2f007368138%2f00383&parentid=anz%2fau%2ftas%2fbmd%2fd%2f0000044470&highlights=%22%22

DOB and place from online tree - not yet confirmed

Research Notes

Birth:24 Jul 1836 Neston, Cheshire, England (from online private tree)

Edwards, Elizabeth Name: Edwards, Elizabeth Record Type: Marriages Gender: Female Age: Adult Spouse: Cooper, William Gender: Male Age: Adult Date of marriage: 25 Dec 1858 Registered: Hobart Registration year: 1858 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:859248

Witnesses Thomas and Alice Cooper

Name: Elizabeth Cooper Birth Year: abt 1837 Age: 60 Death Date: 16 Jun 1897 Death Place: Tasmania Registration Year: 1897 Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania Registration Number: 1359 Source Information Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.