Family Tree Walker » Vera Florence WALKER (1905-1989)

Persoonlijke gegevens Vera Florence WALKER 

• Zij is geboren op 16 mei 1905 in Rochford, Essex, England.Bron 1
• Zij is gedoopt op 26 augustus 1906 in Saint Ann, Tottenham, London, England.
• Beroep: Nurse.
• Volkstelling in het jaar 1911.Bron 2
• Zij is overleden mei 1989 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, zij was toen 83 jaar oud.Bron 3
• Een kind van Clement Robertson WALKER en Florence Edith LOUGH
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 6 januari 2021.

Gezin van Vera Florence WALKER

Zij is getrouwd met Stanley Charles Richard COOPER.

Zij zijn getrouwd maart 1930 te Maldon, Essex, England, zij was toen 24 jaar oud.Bron 4

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)
2. Margaret Jean (Betty) COOPER  1931-1953 
3. (Niet openbaar)

Notities over Vera Florence WALKER

So what does my side of the family tree look like? You can see the relationship at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LBDM-S5V. As you know Clement’s first child, by Florence Edith Lough, was Vera Florence Walker (born 1905). She married Stanley Charles Richard Cooper (born 1906) in 1930. When he graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1927 the economy was in a mess and the only job he could find was in Romania in the oil industry. After spending a couple of years there on his own he insisted that they get married and she move to Romania with him. They had twins there in 1931, Charles Anthony Cooper (Uncle Tony) and Margaret Jean Cooper (Auntie Betty). The birth experience was very bad and when Vera became pregnant again in 1937 she insisted on the birth being in the UK. So my Mum, Wendy Anne Bowley, was born in London. Shortly afterwards Stanley travelled back to the UK, leaving the twins in the care of a nanny, to bring Vera and my Mum back to Romania. When the political situation became nasty in 1939 they packed their bags and caught more or less the last train back to the UK.

During the war the twins were sent off to boarding school but my Mum and her parents lived in the middle of an oil refinery on the north bank of the Thames. As an oil processing engineer Stanley was in a reserved occupation. The German bombers used to drop any bombs left over from London on the refinery as a secondary target. In 1956, after a bit of a contretemps at work, Stanley and family were transferred to another refinery near Manchester. That’s where my mother met my father, Alan Bowley, through work. They married in 1961 and I was born in 1962. I have two younger siblings, Michael and Fiona. The family moved up to Aberdeen in 1966 and then Inverness in 1972. I moved to Cambridge after graduating in 1983 and I’m still here. My mother and siblings now live in Edinburgh.

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I asked my Mum more about the Ferry Boat Inn in North Fambridge. She thinks Vera went there a few times. Apparently there are some embarrassing stories she won’t tell me because I am male and they are only for women. She thinks that is where Vera first met Stanley. North Fambridge is only about 4 miles away from Mundon, where Stanley grew up. The Coopers were blacksmiths and wheelwrights for generations. There was no need for many such people in one location so extra sons often moved on a few villages after finishing their apprenticeships. There were Cooper relatives in many of the local villages. The 1901 census shows an uncle in North Fambridge but he’d moved on by 1911. If Clement and Hilda were together until the mid-1920s then Vera would have met Hilda and Ray. It must have been weird for Vera having two half-brothers and a half-sister but even weirder for Ray not being able to refer to his mother as such. Vera used to call her step-dad Mr Taylor so he was obviously not keen on being familiar too.

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